[DeTomaso] Mike Drew on Jay Leno's Garage?????

[Mikael]

Amazing, Jay Leno on the Mike Drew show ;-)

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From: Jerry Knotts
Sent: mandag den 23. juni 2014 21.57
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Mike Drew on Jay Leno's Garage?????

Mike.

That's neat - great adventure personally and superior stage presence and 
presentation for the Pantera community and POCA.

jerry

On 6/23/2014 2:06 PM, Mike Drew via DeTomaso wrote:
> In a message dated 6/23/14 7 48 13, michael at michaelshortt.com writes:
> Great job Mike, so now tell us all what happens next, did you get a
> private tour of the place, did Jay let you sit in any of his toys?
> >>>It was a fantastic day. I'd been there before; he gave Lori and me
> a private 2.5 hour tour of his collection back in December.
> On the day of the shoot (last month, on the way to the Fun Rally) I got
> there early and he was a bit late, so I got to spend another hour or so
> wandering around the shop by myself. The shoot took about two hours,
> but then he invited me to stay and play cars some more. He did two
> more shoots with other people, so I just sort of wandered around and
> watched the process. After they left, the crew, mechanics, Jay and I
> had lunch in the shop, and then he took me for a ride in his 1925 Doble
> steam car.
> That turned into an adventure and a half over the space of the next
> several hours. I had already Drewsastered his Pantera during the shoot
> (A/C system let go), and then when we were many miles from the shop in
> the Doble, it conked out due to a mega water leak. We were able to
> fill the tank at a convenient fire station (!) and then limped slowly
> back towards the shop, stopping again in the barrio at a used tire
> store for more water. Once back in the shop I helped them get it up on
> the lift to evaluate the problem.
> A water transfer pump that sends water from the storage tank to the
> boiler had let go, and water was cascading out of it. While they were
> under the car checking it out, I backed away to take in the whole
> scene. My next words were, "Fire fire no shit this car is on fire!"
> It was completely ablaze under the hood! After a mad scramble, Jay got
> an air hose, a mechanic got a blow gun for it, the car was lowered
> (still burning), I popped the hood and they got after it with the air
> hose, literally blowing the fire out (a process that took longer than
> you'd expect).
> Surprisingly it did no damage; it was apparently caused by gasoline
> fumes spontaneously combusting due to contact with the hot boiler.
> With steam cars, things like this happen apparently (he told me he has
> several videos on Youtube of him blowing himself up with steam cars).
> Eventually we got cleaned up and called it a day--I was there at the
> shop for about ten hours.
> One of the best days of my life, and even though he set a record for
> the first-ever TRIPLE Drewsaster, Jay invited me to come back sometime,
> as I had mentioned to him that my late father loved Duesenbergs, so he
> wants to take me for a ride in his SJ as a tribute to him.
> What a terrific guy! He loves his Pantera, too. If you're in So Cal
> at a car show, you may well see him with it. He told me yesterday that
> he bumped into Leon Rower this weekend (whose immaculate, bone-stock
> blue Pantera wowed the crowd at the Fun Rally at the Saturday car show)
> and really was impressed with his Pantera too!
> Oh, and the Doble problem was caused by the water pump failing and
> hydro-locking. Doble water pumps don't grow on trees (they only made
> 46 cars and no two were the same) but fortunately he has so much
> machining capability within his shop that he was able to have a new one
> made from scratch, and the car is back on the road alreadya|.
> Mike
>
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