[DeTomaso] Rare day in the Pacific Northwest

[Mike Drew]

I will be working tomorrow and Tuesday to put the engine and gearbox back in my car. Fingers crossed!

Mike

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> On Feb 11, 2018, at 12:28, Curt Hall <cuvee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>   Today must be a Pantera Day! Had my White Car out to the local Cars and
>   Coffee this morning! Peter Kovacs showed up with his Black Car! Great
>   visit with the Locals, good Breakfast, just a great Morning!
>   See Bill I do take the Car out of the Garage! LOL
>   Curt
>   On Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:00 PM, Bill Moore <bill at incendium.com>
>   wrote:
>   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:[1]detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com] On
>   Behalf
>   Of Mike & Elizabeth Thomas
>   Sent: February-11-18 11:03 AM
>   To: [2]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 <[3]http://www.panterasnorthwest.com/>
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