[DeTomaso] Fast and Loud TV Show

Tue Sep 3 16:44:04 EDT 2013

I heard they get paid $25k per episode so they need to make stuff up to
keep it interesting. I saw the blue Pantera, nothing special at best. They
think they are a pretty hot property here in Dallas. I'd never do business
with them.

Jeff
6559

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:14 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 *Pantera International. *This only got Richard more
> pissed off. Although it didn't show Panteras in 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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