[DeTomaso] Photo session

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Last year when filling up mine at a local gas station, the barely 20 
year old girl behind the counter was all bubbling about the car wanting 
to know if it was a Pantera.  I said yes and she promptly pulled out her 
phone and asked if she could take a photo. I said yes.

Once she got outside I opened the drivers door and told her to sit down, 
closed the door and took her photo with her camera.  She was ecstatic 
and nearly shaking with delight (insert obtuse reference to Shakespeare 
here about glove on a hand).  She immediately forwarded the photos to 
her husband who had recently watched one of the auctions and was 
drooling all over a Pantera.  Hehehe... she got to sit in one.

Then a couple weekends ago on a drive with the local Italian car club, a 
young man probably still in high school comes around looking at the 
Fiat's and the Porsche's (yes, we allow a few German cars in the drive 
too) and the lone Ferrari.  He seemed to be drawn to the Pantera so I 
had him sit it in.  You couldn't wipe the grin off his face with a wire 
brush.  He had a friend (who for some odd reason did NOT want to sit in 
the car) take his photo for him so he could post it later.

Spreading happiness one customer at a time. :)
Asa  Jay

Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 6/25/2015 7:53 PM, Mike Thomas wrote:
> I had a guy and his wife walk up to me at our weekly Friday show in
> Covington a few weeks ago.  He looked like he'd just found out that beer was
> free, and told me that the Pantera was his all-time favorite car.  His wife
> said that she had heard me coming in, saw just the roof of the car go by in
> the next row and pointed it out to him.  They followed me until I parked and
> he spent about 15 minutes drooling on the car, asking all sorts of questions
> and all but bowing to it.  I let him get in, and as I was closing the door
> for him, his wife says quietly to me "you just make his Christmas list . . .
> . ".  I talked with them a while longer and they drifted off to look at
> other cars.  If they'd come back around, I was going to take him for a ride.
> That would have probably put ne in his will. . . . .
>
> It makes you feel good . . .
>
> Mike Thomas
> Pres., Panteras Northwest
> Yellow '74 #6328
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Charles
> McCall
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:15 PM
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Photo session
>
> Had a photo session this weekend.. a young guy, absolute car nut who asked
> timidly if he would be able to take some pictures of my car. I had nothing
> planned for this weekend, so I told him to stop on by on Sunday afternoon.
>
> He drove for 3 hours each way just to reach my house and see the car... we
> spent a couple of hours taking pictures in various places, and ended with
> an, erm, spirited ride through the country that left him speechless. I
> received gushing thanks where he b...abbled on and on about the experience.
> I've literally heard people speak less enthusiastically about the birth of
> their children Emoticono smile
>
> There's a lesson here I think - those of us lucky enough to have owned these
> fantastic cars for a certain time perhaps forget the enthusiasm we felt the
> first day we bought them or drove them. We love the cars as much as ever,
> and I'll keep mine until the end of time. But it is refreshing to share
> these cars with someone who hasn't been up-close-and-personal with them
> before and see the sheer joy in their eyes and relive the experience.
>
> I really enjoyed setting aside a few hours this past weekend doing just
> that..
>
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