[DeTomaso] Why both?

[Will Kooiman]

Don Garlits did it on one of his dragsters.  I don¹t know how well it ran.

Of course, Garlits did it to see if it made more power, and who knows,
maybe it did.

Take a look at all of the other hot rods out there, though.  Do you really
think my 427 Cobra needs a 482 stroker?  It does to me.  I¹ll never use
the 600hp, but it has value to me.

So, maybe the owner did it because it was cool to him, and more power to
him.

On 10/23/19, 5:35 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of audionut motonut"
<detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
audionut at mediacombb.net> wrote:

>   Why both?
>   The correct answer is quite clear to me:
>   Some rich hillbilly has more money than good sense.
>   By now we all know the Pantera is a powerful magnet for folks like
>   this.  Case in point?  Elvis Presley, King of the Hillbillies.
>   Yee haw.
>   The trouble is that the Pantera is so wickedly stylish that some guys
>   feel the motor has to have at least 700hp to keep up with its' looks.
>   Reminds me of a friend of mine, an old punk rocker who made a chunk of
>   dough playing with Social Distortion.  He started his own hipster
>   bar/restaurant close to where I used to live and when he saw my Pantera
>   in his parking lot one day he immediately offered to buy it.  I threw a
>   price at him and that conversation ended quick.
>   Fast forward 10 years or so and he's joined POCA.  He found a yellow 72
>   with a visibly modified 351C built to specs unknown.   Not long after I
>   sent him on a repair mission of minor issues, (he took care of them) I
>   get a text from him telling me he's blown up his motor racing a modern
>   Porsche on a local freeway.
>   Dumb bastard.  I gave him Tim Meyer's info and told him if he wanted to
>   smoke modern Porsches then he better be prepared to spend twice what he
>   paid for the Pantera and re-do the entire car.
>   Ah yes..... the DeTomaso Pantera........never a dull moment.
>     __________________________________________________________________
>
>   From: "Rob DuMoulin" <rob at dumoulins.net>
>   To: "P - Mail List" <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>   Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:36:23 AM
>   Subject: [DeTomaso] Why both?
>   Came across this on BAT.  I've owned both Supercharged and Turbocharged
>   cars. Both have their own fun factors, though I liked the supercharged
>   ones
>   best.  Why would you put both on a car?
>   https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1972-detomaso-pantera-39/
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