[DeTomaso] [EXTERNAL] Re: Dennis A vidio

[Himes, Terry (US 397C)]

Soooo very painful to watch.  

I think we all might have car fire stories. Not Pantera one's, but still scary.  We should all recount them here.

Here's mine.
I borrowed a customer's (In Tampa, FLA)  salesman's car that just came back from the garage for the weekend. Sunday
I was coming back across the Tampa Bay bridge and had to make it to the airport. It started overheating bad, I put it into 
neutral to try to coast down the backside of the bridge to see if it would cool off. It didn't, and white smoke started coming 
out of the hood. I parked on the side when I was available and the smoke turned black. Long story short... became fully 
engulfed in flames. All 8 lanes of the highway was blocked, fire engines, news helicopters, cops.   

More to this 2 beer story... but when I eventually got to the airport, I had to call my customer (Bud Churry) and let
him know I couldn't drop off the car.   __

More stories? 

Terry




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On 3/15/21, 5:25 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Asa Jay Laughton via DeTomaso" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:

    Um... yea.  Dennis' car -did- have magnesium wheels on it as I recall 
    but he'd have to confirm that.  The wheels and tires you see as it's 
    being loaded on the trailer are loaners, put on the car to get it on the 
    trailer.  As I recall, Larry Stock took it to Shelby in Las Vegas until 
    Dennis picked it up for restoration.

    Go to 2:11 and take a look at the driver's side front wheel, might be a 
    Campy (I'll have to ask him again).  The entire car was engulfed at one 
    one point, no wheel got away unscathed.

    Asa Jay

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    On 3/15/2021 16:53, Matt Wells wrote:
    >     You tubeA > search "silver state Pantera fire" = "Hot Pantera"
    >     About the third video down the page.
    >     I re-watched it after 14 years and noticed the firemen were probably
    >     thinking the engine was forward the way they were trying to pry open
    >     the hood bonnet from the front!
    >     Originally I thought it was difficult to extinguishA due to Magnesium
    >     Campy's but they were just after market alloys.
    >     And surprisingly the passenger side wheels/tires look like they
    >     survivedA unscathed!
    >     FortunatelyA Dennis walked away to live another day.
    >     Still tough to watch...
    >
    >     On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 1:26 PM Tom Shinrock via DeTomaso
    >     <[1]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
    >
    >       A  A Not to be ghoulish, but does anybody know where I can find the
    >       video of
    >       A  A Dennis's car catching fire?
    >       A  A I was telling my friend who is a retired fireman about the fire
    >       and how
    >       A  A they couldn't put it out so I'm looking for the video to show
    >       him
    >       A  A Apologies to Dennis to dredging up a bad memory.
    >       A  A Tom
    >       A  A 5186
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