[DeTomaso] New Hot Rod article
Ken Green
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Wed Jul 18 18:17:46 EDT 2018
Shades of Sammy Tanner? (the Flying Flea)
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Now there's a custom job done right. Thanks for that link, Chuck!
Originality, while prized by collectors, is very often quite boring due
to manufacturer restraints on quality in order to keep retail prices
within the reach of a lot of people.
I have an old BSA Victor motorcycle that I fixed up and customized to
my own taste, sparing no expense. I was showing it at a bike rally a
number of years ago and an old guy with an English accent commented on
how nice a job I did. Our conversation went something like this:
"You think so? Thanks. Lots of people say that I "over-restored" it
or that I strayed too far from the factory look."
"Quite right," he said with a twinkle in his eye, and then went on:
"I was employed at Triumph from the late 60's until we shut. We would
have built our bikes just the way you have if production costs hadn't
mandated otherwise. What you have here is the machine we would have
loved to build. You have taken our simple design and brought out all
of it's potential beauty and lustre."
Well that was just about the highest compliment one could ever hope for
because that's exactly what I was trying to do. I built the machine
with one idea in mind:
"What would this thing look like if the designers didn't have to
homogenize its' looks and produce it at low cost to profitably sell it
to as many people as possible?"
To me, this Hot Rod article shows a Pantera fixed up to a high-quality,
factory-styled standard. Nothing cheesy about it.
Well done lads!
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On 7/18/2018 at 9:19 AM, "Corey Price" <coreyjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
I like it! Sure I would do some things different but weare not all
the same. Iam just glad weare not all stuck on originality even
though the market seems to push that direction at times.
Corey
> On Jul 18, 2018, at 6:41 AM, cengles at cox.net wrote:
>
> Dear Forum,
>
> I *think* this is new. It is a very positive article. Does
> anyone know Mr. Quadland?
>
>
>
[1]https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1972-detomaso-pantera-coyote-wolf
s-clot
> hing/
>
> Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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Shades of Sammy Tanner? (the Flying Flea)
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Now there's a custom job done right. Thanks for that link, Chuck!
Originality, while prized by collectors, is very often quite boring
due
to manufacturer restraints on quality in order to keep retail prices
within the reach of a lot of people.
I have an old BSA Victor motorcycle that I fixed up and customized to
my own taste, sparing no expense. I was showing it at a bike rally a
number of years ago and an old guy with an English accent commented
on
how nice a job I did. Our conversation went something like this:
"You think so? Thanks. Lots of people say that I "over-restored" it
or that I strayed too far from the factory look."
"Quite right," he said with a twinkle in his eye, and then went on:
"I was employed at Triumph from the late 60's until we shut. We
would
have built our bikes just the way you have if production costs hadn't
mandated otherwise. What you have here is the machine we would have
loved to build. You have taken our simple design and brought out all
of it's potential beauty and lustre."
Well that was just about the highest compliment one could ever hope
for
because that's exactly what I was trying to do. I built the machine
with one idea in mind:
"What would this thing look like if the designers didn't have to
homogenize its' looks and produce it at low cost to profitably sell
it
to as many people as possible?"
To me, this Hot Rod article shows a Pantera fixed up to a
high-quality,
factory-styled standard. Nothing cheesy about it.
Well done lads!
Sent using Hushmail
On 7/18/2018 at 9:19 AM, "Corey Price" <[1]coreyjprice at gmail.com>
wrote:
I like it! Sure I would do some things different but weare not all
the same. Iam just glad weare not all stuck on originality even
though the market seems to push that direction at times.
Corey
> On Jul 18, 2018, at 6:41 AM, [2]cengles at cox.net wrote:
>
> Dear Forum,
>
> I *think* this is new. It is a very positive article. Does
> anyone know Mr. Quadland?
>
>
>
[1][3]https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1972-detomaso-pantera-coyote-wolf
s-clot
> hing/
>
> Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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