[DeTomaso] Fast and Loud TV Show

Tue Sep 3 15:23:31 EDT 2013

It's as spontaneous as "Whose Line Is It Anyway".  Everything is set up
beforehand and the dialog is more or less ad lib.

That way they don't have to pay a guild writer, just the production staff.
It is still entertaining, but don't expect anything to be remotely
identifiable as real life.

sean

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Boyd Casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When the car first arrived at the gas monkey garage Richard (the
> principal) was excited and said "Ive had a few Panteras come through here
> (the shop) and I've always wanted to own one" So he apparently likes them
> he added that "the early ones were very fast doing 0-60 in 5.6 seconds. He
> went on to say that the owner of this Pantera  sent him the car
> (unsolicited) and said he would come down to work out a deal. He
> represented the car to be a two owner (with him being the second owner )
> that he had owned for 30 years, he went on to say he had only driven it 28
> miles and the rest of the time it sat in his heated garage. When he showed
> up he told Richard he wanted $25K for it. Richard who does not seem to be
> very astute as far as mechanical issues goes did not appear tp inspect
> the car thoroughly himself (at least not on camera) and appeared to
> delegate the fat assed mechanic to inspect the car only after he
> purchased it. After the owner accepted the $17k offer he said he had almost
> accepted $10 k for the car when it had been offered to him by *PanteraInternational.
> *This only got Richard more pissed off. Although it didn't show Panterasin a good light I think it was due more to the fact that Richard felt the
> car's condition had been grossly misstated. The thing that pissed me off
> was that the ignorant narrator kept calling it a "Ford Pantera". Some of
> the Texas Pantera crew should go by the Gas Monkey shop in Dallas and
> show them what a nice Pantera with updated power can do!
> I also question how much of the show is really spontaneous and how much is
> scripted B.S. I remember back when someone posted that the people from
> "Pawn Stars" contacted  the owner of a Pantera that was for sale and
> asked him if he wanted to bring the car down. They said "they didn't really
> want to buy it they just wanted content for the show" Also the story line
> that Dale Earnhardt Jr. was repeatedly calling and was unable to get
> through is complete B.S. Diet Mountain Dew (one of his biggest sponsors) is
> also the sponsor of "Fast and loud", So tell me that the whole Dale Jr.
> story isn't a bunch of crap. I also looked on Hemmings for restored
>  Nomads when Richard purchased the sweet 56 Nomad for $25K, they were
> averaging around 50 to 60K there was one barn find in need of a complete
> restoration for $25K. So I think that this "reality "show like most of the
> others uses the term "Reality" with extreme poetic license. None the less I
> sill find it allot more entertaining then much of the alternative fare TV
> has to offer (have you ever watched Porter Ridge?) talk about unmitigated
> manure!
> Boyd
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not going to count on it... but I saw a scene in the season clip-show
>> of a blue Pantera doing a big nasty burnout in their parking lot.  So this
>> one might have been saved, or someone brought another one in for revenge,
>> or... the show is purposelyy made dramatic with unneeded plot twists.  The
>> next episode could pull this out or... not.
>>
>> Crap.  This is not good publicity.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Christopher Kimball
>> <chrisvkimball at msn.com>wrote:
>>
>> > How utterly annoying!
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:27:19 -0700
>> > > From: jefude at yahoo.com
>> > > To: detomaso at poca.com
>> > > Subject: [DeTomaso] Fast and Loud TV Show
>> >  >
>> > > Last night on “Fast and Loud” (Gas Monkey Garage Dallas TX) a not very
>> > flattering Pantera segment. It started out favorably with a short
>> Pantera
>> > retrospective. But went downhill from there.
>> > > They purchased a 2 owner 74 L ( non-running) with mid-teens miles that
>> > had  been sitting for over 30 years. The owner wanted $25 K and they
>> > settled at $17K. The owner later said he had almost sold it to PI for
>> $10K.
>> > > The car was missing the carb and had some damage under the front
>> > radiator support. It was filthy nasty looking but based on the limited
>> > views seemed like an all there survivor down to the original Arrivas. A
>> > seemingly good purchase for the $17K.
>> > > Next segment shows a fat arssed mechanic trying to crawl under the
>> rear
>> > end hitting his head. Also after getting in and out of the car he
>> bitches
>> > about hating it. He said the clutch was bad but we all know it could
>> have
>> > just as easily been the master or slave. They then show rust in the
>> intake
>> > manifold and holes in the inner rear fender arch.
>> > > The mechanic basically does not want to screw with the car at all and
>> > tells Richard that he should just sell the car. Last segment shows them
>> out
>> > scribbling on the windshield  “ 4 SALE”  and a disgusted Richard
>> mumbling
>> > it as “POS” .
>> > >  They never show or say the car sold so not sure where it is now.  But
>> > the Pantera is definitely not shown in a favorable light.
>> > > If you want to catch a rerun of this episode it will be the one
>> > highlighted by a Nomad build for Dale Jr.
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'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
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