[DeTomaso] Rare day in the Pacific Northwest

Bill Moore bill at incendium.com
Sun Feb 11 15:00:13 EST 2018


Hey Mike:

If you have only repaired the annoying rattle on one of your crappy
Wilkinson mufflers, just wait, the cheap Chinese tack welds will fail on the
other one sometime this summer.

Great to hear you could get the cat out.


Bill Moore
Calgary / Goodyear
403.860.4300

-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On Behalf
Of Mike & Elizabeth Thomas
Sent: February-11-18 11:03 AM
To: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Rare day in the Pacific Northwest

Yesterday was an unusually nice day for mid-February in the Seattle area,
and it took me about 5 seconds to change my plans to go pull the encroaching
blackberry vines out of the back edge of my property and take a drive in
#6328.  I know I'm tempting the gods here, but she's running better on all
counts than she has probably in the 14 years I've been caring for her.  It
was still cool, barely 50 degrees, but the roads were dry, the sun was out
and the sky was a hazy shade of winter blue.

 

Three taps, three cranks and she started right up.  Since having the
extremely annoying rattling baffle in the Wilkinson exhaust repaired, the
exhaust now has only the deep, mellow tone I expect.  A little warm up and
off we went.  As many of the backroads are still in shade, damp and quite
cool from the overnight frost, I decided to stick to surface streets and the
freeway for a loop I use this time of year to let her stretch her legs.
Coming down Kent-Kangley road and getting stuck in what is now the usual
Saturday traffic, I didn't even mind waiting through the lights, feeling the
sun warming my face and sitting in my oasis of cool amongst the rain-grunged
Toyotas, Chevy's and F250's around me.

 

Once out on the freeway, relaxing the lead a bit and letting her run, I
could almost imagine myself halfway down the I-5 corridor to Monterey or
Vegas, the rhythms of the finely choreographed Cleveland symphony playing in
a rising and falling crescendo conducted by the gear lever and my right
foot.  It was over all too soon, and I thought about taking another lap, but
things to do.  I let her sit in the drive for a while before putting her
back in the garage, grabbing a few pics with the angled sun glinting off her
folds and flanks.

 

Time for a beer and a toast to our passions.

 

Cheers!

Mike Thomas

Pres., Panteras Northwest

206-795-3302

Yellow '74 #6328

www.panterasnorthwest.com <http://www.panterasnorthwest.com/> 

 

 




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