[DeTomaso] Fwd: Happy birthday
JEFFREY COBB
jeffcobb1 at me.com
Thu Jul 23 06:45:56 EDT 2015
Hello group,
I was worried/bothered when I read about Tom Tjaarda maybe being dead in your mails.
HE IS ALIVE.
So I emailed him at 3:00 am NYC time and he answered at 4:42 pm Italian time.
He is younger than I thought and seems happy and full of suggestions as usual.
He is doing well.
Jeff Cobb
> From: "tjaarda at astranet.it" <tjaarda at astranet.it>
> Date: July 23, 2015 4:42:07 AM EDT
> To: JEFFREY COBB <jeffcobb1 at me.com>
> Subject: Re: Happy birthday
>
> Dear Jeff,
>
> Thank you very much for the birthday wishes - but lets not rush things - I am "only" 81 today -
>
> Sorry that I can not make it to Monteray this year. You would be suprised the cost for the four days in Carmel - airfair -car - hotel etc. it is just not worth it.
>
> Take ie easy for awhile - to recover from chemotherapy takes time - the best way I would think is to take a cruse with Libby - your are obliged to be stress free and happy.
>
> Thanks again and have a nice summer to you both
>
> Tom
>
>
> Il 23/07/2015 06:54, JEFFREY COBB ha sricpto
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>>
>> Hello Tom, I hope you are well on your 84th birthday. Many special years and designs have flowed under your feet and hands. I am at Memorial Sloan in NYC recovering from my second surgery done yesterday.
>> Cancer has showed to be gone since April, now I just deal with outliving the chemotherapy cure,
>> Libby and I did very well at both Detroit events; EyesOnDesign at Edsel Fords Estate last month and the Mercury/Lincoln in house show at Dearborns design center last Friday. Car blew people away. Nearly all viewers at both shows we're engineers, designers and management.Sorry to miss you this year. My Mangusta was chosen as a special car this year at Concorso. We will have fun for a week driving it around.
>> Here is art of their web news letter.
>>
>> Concorso News
>>
>> Recent Posts
>>
>> GLOBAL EXOTIC FEATURED DISPLAY
>> 250 GTE REUNION
>> DR. DON PANOZ TO RECEIVE THE LA BELLA MACCHINA AWARD AT CONCORSO ITALIANO
>> SPECIAL MANGUSTA TO BE FEATURED AT CONCORSO
>>
>> Special Mangusta to be Featured at Concorso
>> 07.07.2015
>>
>>
>> Concorso Italiano is pleased to announce that a one-off Mangusta built as a “vanity” project for a Ford styling chief will be on display at this year’s event, August 16th.
>>
>> This can be considered a controversial car. Back in the sixties, Eugene Bordinat, the then Director of styling at Ford, had to have some individually customized car to drive around town. Was this because Bill Mitchell, GM’s flamboyant VP of Styling, had a whole fleet of customized cars from the Mako Shark to a Scarab F1 car fitted out for commuting? Who knows, but Bordinat showed that Mitchell wasn’t the only auto executive in town with enough clout to order up his own special.
>>
>> The Mangusta was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro for Ghia. It made its world premiere at the 1966 Turin Auto Salon. It was regarded as a new frontier in one box design where the car was one smooth line from the windshield to the rear bumper. It followed Ford’s GT40 mid-ships engine layout, and even used a GT40-style ZF gearbox. The car was only 42 inches high.
>>
>> Bordinat had his own Mangusta customized with a special “soft nose” and, if it wasn’t for doubts within Ford that it could be built in quantity, it would probably have been imported by Ford. The Pantera they chose instead might have been totally unnecessary.
>>
>> With you in the car in 2005 when I first saw the car and spent months trying to buy it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well Tom, sorry you cannot make it. I do not have the same energy and money I did when I did your cool party in 2011, otherwise I would do it again!!
>>
>> Take care Tom and I will live a long time. To hell with cancer, a strong foe has and will be beat.
>>
>> Thank you for your kind suggestions.
>>
>> Libby and many others will dearly miss you.
>> I know I will.
>>
>> Hope to see you at Monterey, Robert Cumberford and Wallace Wyss will be there.
>>
>> Your Cajun friend,
>>
>> Jeff
>> Jeff Cobb- I pad
>> W-225-343-7525
>> C-225-907-4514
>>
>> Jeff Cobb Auto Works
>> 1316 S. Acadian Thruway
>> Baton Rouge, La.
>> 70806
>>
>> www.LiveOakConcours.org
>
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Hello group,
I was worried/bothered when I read about Tom Tjaarda maybe being
dead in your mails.
HE IS ALIVE.
So I emailed him at 3:00 am NYC time and he answered at 4:42 pm Italian
time.
He is younger than I thought and seems happy and full of suggestions as
usual.
He is doing well.
Jeff Cobb
From: "[1]tjaarda at astranet.it" <[2]tjaarda at astranet.it>
Date: July 23, 2015 4:42:07 AM EDT
To: JEFFREY COBB <[3]jeffcobb1 at me.com>
Subject: Re: Happy birthday
Dear Jeff,
Thank you very much for the birthday wishes - but lets not rush
things - I am "only" 81 today -
Sorry that I can not make it to Monteray this year. You would be
suprised the cost for the four days in Carmel - airfair -car - hotel
etc. it is just not worth it.
Take ie easy for awhile - to recover from chemotherapy takes time
- the best way I would think is to take a cruse with Libby - your are
obliged to be stress free and happy.
Thanks again and have a nice summer to you both
Tom
Il 23/07/2015 06:54, JEFFREY COBB ha sricpto
----------------------------------------------------------
Hello Tom, I hope
you are well on your 84th birthday. Many special years a
nd designs have flowed under your feet and hands. I am at Memorial Sloan in NYC
recovering from my second surgery done yesterday.
Cancer has showed to be gone since April, now I just deal with outliving the che
motherapy cure,
Libby and I did very well at both Detroit events; EyesOnDesign at Edsel For
ds Estate last month and the Mercury/Lincoln in house show at Dearborns design c
enter last Friday. Car blew people away. Nearly all viewers at both shows we're
engineers, designers and management.Sorry to miss you this year. My Mangusta was
chosen as a special car this year at Concorso. We will have fun for a week driv
ing it around.
Here is art of their web news letter.
Concorso News
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Recent Posts
* [4]GLOBAL EXOTIC FEATURED DISPLAY
* [5]250 GTE REUNION
* [6]DR. DON PANOZ TO RECEIVE THE LA BELLA MACCHINA AWARD AT CONCORSO
ITALIANO
* [7]SPECIAL MANGUSTA TO BE FEATURED AT CONCORSO
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Special Mangusta to be Featured at Concorso
07.07.2015
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Concorso Italiano is pleased to announce that a one-off Mangusta built
as a aEURoevanityaEUR project for a Ford styling chief will be on
display at this yearaEUR(TM)s event, August 16^th.
This can be considered a controversial car. Back in the sixties,
Eugene Bordinat, the then Director of styling at Ford, had to have some
individually customized car to drive around town. Was this because Bill
Mitchell, GMaEUR(TM)s flamboyant VP of Styling, had a whole fleet of
customized cars from the Mako Shark to a Scarab F1 car fitted out for
commuting? Who knows, but Bordinat showed that Mitchell wasnaEUR(TM)t
the only auto executive in town with enough clout to order up his own
special.
The Mangusta was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro for Ghia. It made its
world premiere at the 1966 Turin Auto Salon. It was regarded as a new
frontier in one box design where the car was one smooth line from the
windshield to the rear bumper. It followed FordaEUR(TM)s GT40 mid-ships
engine layout, and even used a GT40-style ZF gearbox. The car was only
42 inches high.
Bordinat had his own Mangusta customized with a special aEURoesoft
noseaEUR and, if it wasnaEUR(TM)t for doubts within Ford that it could
be built in quantity, it would probably have been imported by Ford.
The Pantera they chose instead might have been totally unnecessary.
With you in the car in 2005 when I first saw the car and spent months
trying to buy it.
Well Tom, sorry you cannot make it. I do not have the same energy and
money I did when I did your cool party in 2011, otherwise I would do it
again!!
Take care Tom and I will live a long time. To hell with cancer, a
strong foe has and will be beat.
Thank you for your kind suggestions.
Libby and many others will dearly miss you.
I know I will.
Hope to see you at Monterey, Robert Cumberford and Wallace Wyss will be there.
Your Cajun friend,
Jeff
Jeff Cobb- I pad
W-225-343-7525
C-225-907-4514
Jeff Cobb Auto Works
1316 S. Acadian Thruway
Baton Rouge, La.
70806
[10]www.LiveOakConcours.org
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