[DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This List (many moons ago)
fastgrandma
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Thu Jun 9 14:42:05 EDT 2016
Any recent contacts with Forest? We used to talk with him frequently when he handled membership but nothing since then and I really miss those conversations.
Judy
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From: Jim Wallace via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
To: Gray Gregory <rgg at gregorycook.com>; Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>; detomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>; Forest Majors <forest.majors at gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2016 11:26 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This List (many moons ago)
Guys...
Ok here is only one of my Forest stories and I have plenty....I bought
an RX-7 and it needed a transmission, took the car to Forest's house to
use the lift to take the car apart (see picture attached with car,
Forest and Georgene) we pulled the tranny and he shipped down to Ole
Saybrook to have it rebuilt. They he went and picked it back up again
for me as the car sat on his lift for two weeks. We must have pulled
that tranny about three more time over the next year and a half. Can't
tell you how many time I stayed at the house over the weekend to work
on my car.
The nicest people you can ever have in your stable (Same for Mark
Skwarek aka the professor "TPR")
Jim
__________________________________________________________________
From: Gray Gregory <rgg at gregorycook.com>
To: Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>;
"detomaso at server.detomasolist.com" <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This
List (many moons ago)
Charlie,
I remember all those events, or at least your emails to the list about
them back then. I also remember Forest Majors; absolutely one of the
finest people you could ever hope to meet!
My Forest story is somewhat similar. Back about that same time frame I
signed up for a vintage car rally in New England with an old Ferrari I
had at the time. Forest (who I had never met in person either) sent me
an email offer any help I might need with the logistics of dropping my
car off or getting it picked back up etc. Long story short not only did
I have the car shipped to Forests house where he kindly stored it in
the barn he was also gracious enough to pick me up from the airport,
put me up in his guest room and he even had a back yard New England
lobster boil with some of the local car guys to welcome the Texan to
town. I ended up doing that rally for 3 or 4 years in a row and staying
with Forest and Georgene became a tradition each year I ran it.
Thanks for the memories,
Gray
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From: DeTomaso [mailto:[1]detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On
Behalf Of Charles McCall
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 9:09 AM
To: [2]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This
List (many moons ago)
This morning I posted on Facebook a flashback from 1997 or 1998 - see
attached photo. It's a picture of my first Pantera parked on the
streets of Paris with US plates on the back and the Eiffel Tower in the
background.
Thanks to Mike Drew for convincing me to have an adventure in my
Pantera and ship it, as this decision opened up a whole world to me and
helped define my philosophy for the next decades... The number of
adventures I've had since then in a Pantera...
At the time, I had recently been transferred to France, and flew back
to the US to put my former '72 Pantera on a boat to ship it over (See
article in 1999 POCA Profiles about shipping a Pantera to France for
what was supposed to be a 6-month assignment...)
While driving the car from Collector's Choice in Wisconsin to NY and
the ship, it developed an engine problem. I was stranded on the NYS
Thruway and ended up having the car towed to my parents' house in
Syracuse, NY. Long story made short - I already had my return airline
ticket, and had to leave the car behind. A local garage found that the
problem was the dreaded distributor shear pin that had, well, sheared,
and left me stranded.
Forest Majors - who I had never met (and still haven't!) but had gotten
to know thanks to the e-mail fA^3rum sent me a note out of the blue
asking how he could help. I had a friend drive my car shipped to his
house in CT, where Forest was kind enough to fix some minor things that
he noticed along the way that were quite helpful, and stored the car
for me until it could be delivered to the port. If I remember
correctly, he even pulled a few parts off a spare Pantera he had to
help me be on my way.
People I had never met in person - Mike Drew and Forest Majors - who
each did a good deed for someone they didn't know personally either but
had come to "know" virtually, asking for nothing in return.
I still see a lot of that spirit on this list today, which is no doubt
one reason for its success. Thanks to all who make it so!
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Any recent contacts with Forest? We used to talk with him frequently
when he handled membership but nothing since then and I really miss
those conversations.
Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wallace via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
To: Gray Gregory <rgg at gregorycook.com>; Charles McCall
<charlesmccall at gmail.com>; detomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>;
Forest Majors <forest.majors at gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jun 9, 2016 11:26 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This
List (many moons ago)
Guys...
Ok here is only one of my Forest stories and I have plenty....I bought
an RX-7 and it needed a transmission, took the car to Forest's house to
use the lift to take the car apart (see picture attached with car,
Forest and Georgene) we pulled the tranny and he shipped down to Ole
Saybrook to have it rebuilt. They he went and picked it back up again
for me as the car sat on his lift for two weeks. We must have pulled
that tranny about three more time over the next year and a half. Can't
tell you how many time I stayed at the house over the weekend to work
on my car.
The nicest people you can ever have in your stable (Same for Mark
Skwarek aka the professor "TPR")
Jim
__________________________________________________________________
From: Gray Gregory <[1]rgg at gregorycook.com>
To: Charles McCall <[2]charlesmccall at gmail.com>;
"[3]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com"
<[4]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This
List (many moons ago)
Charlie,
I remember all those events, or at least your emails to the list about
them back then. I also remember Forest Majors; absolutely one of the
finest people you could ever hope to meet!
My Forest story is somewhat similar. Back about that same time frame I
signed up for a vintage car rally in New England with an old Ferrari I
had at the time. Forest (who I had never met in person either) sent me
an email offer any help I might need with the logistics of dropping my
car off or getting it picked back up etc. Long story short not only did
I have the car shipped to Forests house where he kindly stored it in
the barn he was also gracious enough to pick me up from the airport,
put me up in his guest room and he even had a back yard New England
lobster boil with some of the local car guys to welcome the Texan to
town. I ended up doing that rally for 3 or 4 years in a row and staying
with Forest and Georgene became a tradition each year I ran it.
Thanks for the memories,
Gray
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On
Behalf Of Charles McCall
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 9:09 AM
To: [2][6]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Great things that have happened because of This
List (many moons ago)
This morning I posted on Facebook a flashback from 1997 or 1998 - see
attached photo. It's a picture of my first Pantera parked on the
streets of Paris with US plates on the back and the Eiffel Tower in the
background.
Thanks to Mike Drew for convincing me to have an adventure in my
Pantera and ship it, as this decision opened up a whole world to me and
helped define my philosophy for the next decades... The number of
adventures I've had since then in a Pantera...
At the time, I had recently been transferred to France, and flew back
to the US to put my former '72 Pantera on a boat to ship it over (See
article in 1999 POCA Profiles about shipping a Pantera to France for
what was supposed to be a 6-month assignment...)
While driving the car from Collector's Choice in Wisconsin to NY and
the ship, it developed an engine problem. I was stranded on the NYS
Thruway and ended up having the car towed to my parents' house in
Syracuse, NY. Long story made short - I already had my return airline
ticket, and had to leave the car behind. A local garage found that the
problem was the dreaded distributor shear pin that had, well, sheared,
and left me stranded.
Forest Majors - who I had never met (and still haven't!) but had gotten
to know thanks to the e-mail fA^3rum sent me a note out of the blue
asking how he could help. I had a friend drive my car shipped to his
house in CT, where Forest was kind enough to fix some minor things that
he noticed along the way that were quite helpful, and stored the car
for me until it could be delivered to the port. If I remember
correctly, he even pulled a few parts off a spare Pantera he had to
help me be on my way.
People I had never met in person - Mike Drew and Forest Majors - who
each did a good deed for someone they didn't know personally either but
had come to "know" virtually, asking for nothing in return.
I still see a lot of that spirit on this list today, which is no doubt
one reason for its success. Thanks to all who make it so!
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