[DeTomaso] Great Weekend

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Charlie:   Well done, sir.  Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles




On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Charles McCall wrote:

> What a fantastic weekend. Amaya and I atended an event called
> Superdeportivos Cantabia, in northern Spain. A record attendance with
> literally over 200 cars participating. Mostly late model Ferrari, 
> Lambo, and
> Porsche, but at least one DeTomaso Pantera was there waving the flag!
>
>
> One of the driving highlights of my life was at this event 2 years ago 
> - the
> police shut the city down for us - all the stoplights were green with
> traffic stopped and we were instructed to proceed from one end of the 
> city
> to the other as fast as humanly possible. we flew through city streets 
> at
> double or triple the speed limit, with the sidewalks lined with 
> cheering
> fans egging us on, and the police smiling and saying "faster!" It is 
> the
> closest thing to a F1 race at Monaco that this reporter will ever see!
>
>
> This year we had to behave ourselves in the city (although they 
> promise that
> next year we'll have the stoplights in our favor again). But outside 
> the
> city limits, the sky was the limit. After blasting through a tunnel,
> following a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera with a totally modified 
> and
> awesome exhaust, we exited the tunnel and accelerated to 210 k/hr. a 
> pair of
> Guardia Civil (national police) on big motorcycles merged onto the 
> highway
> and gave our little convoy of 5 cars the thumbs up! We cruised along 
> for a
> good 5-10 minutes at 200+ k/hr while being escorted by the police, 
> with
> lights flashing and clearing traffic for us, before catching up to 
> denser
> traffic and reducing our speed.
>
> At our rest stop, one of the motorcycle cops came up and said to the 
> Lambo
> driver and to me "those cars sounded great!!" How many times does that
> happen? This event is so fun because of the tremendous variety of cars
> present, but also because it is so surreal - because of the 
> connections of
> the organizers, we are allowed to do things that I still have a hard 
> time
> believing.
>
>
> The POCA page has died so I don't really know where to post pictures, 
> but
> the event may be seen here:
>
> http://www.superdeportivoscantabria.com/
>
>
>
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