[DeTomaso] The oddest Supercar in the world....

[Bill Lewis]

Well Darn!  I think it's cute and a great idea.  I'll take an orange, or a yellow one - I want to be sure that I am seen!  If anyone has ever ridden on Westheimer St, here in Houston, I wonder about the ride quality!  Looks like the future to me!   ---BILL Lewis

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From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at poca.com> on behalf of Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 6:50 PM
To: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] The oddest Supercar in the world....

It's probably as safe as a Honda but now I'm trying to figure out what I
need to drive to be safe from an F250 crew cab :)  Maybe an F7000 would
work ok.  Hard to park, tho.  I'll just take the bus.

I'm feeling surprisingly less grumpy now but I have a terrible headache.
Probably from the paint stripper fumes I inhaled yesterday.  If I could get
a car to run on my boss yelling at me and angry customers we'd have it made!

sean

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:51 PM, The DeTomaso Registry Guy <
detomasoregistry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Uh, yea, electric (?) motorcycle built out as a silly coffin.
> Since it takes two to Tango, where does the 2nd person sit?
>
> So did they demonstrate its 150 MPH ability on the course?
>
> I doubt it.
>
> Safe eh?  How far would it fly when I T-bone it with my '76 F350 Crew cab,
> long bed 4WD...
>
> Remember all the hype about the complete change in society that some new
> earth-shaking
> invention was going to cause?
>
>
> Then the Segway was born.  I even tried one during a tour of San Fran...
> Interesting, and fun, but no 'life-changer'.
>
> Not to 'poo-poo' ideas, but it will take decades to adopt a major change in
> how society gets around.
>
> Chuck
> Grumpy this morning...
>
>
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I was at the 24 Hours of Lemons race this weekend in Thunderhill, and the
> team across from us had this ridiculous-looking city car parked in their
> pits.   It is called the Tango T600 or something like that.   It looked
> like it
> would topple over in a stiff breeze, and the aesthetics of it rendered it a
> four-wheeled form of birth control.
>
> Curious, I went over to speak to them and discovered that one of the team
> drivers was the inventor of this thing.   I was shocked to learn how heavy
> it
> was (weight added for stability), and even more shocked to learn that it
> cost $240,000!!!!
>
> That's because they are hand-built; if a manufacturer could be found to
> mass-produce them, the costs would naturally plummet.
>
> I was even more amazed to learn that this little thing, which I presumed
> might top out at 45-50 mph, is governed to ONLY go 150 mph but is capable
> of
> 172!!!!
>
> YOW!!!!!
>
> Check it out here:
>
> http://www.commutercars.com/index.html
>
> Mike
>
>
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Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
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