[DeTomaso] NPC -- Cizeta-Moroder V16 beast

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Happy New Normal Year in Hell ! (as demons gather, darkness continues
to descend upon humanity and we pretend all is well....)
Some folks here may remember a POCA fun rally in Monterey some years
back when we went to the Bruce Canepa Museum in Santa Cruz.
I was lagging behind everyone due to my total amazement at the place
and wound up in the mechanics' work area looking at racer Porsches and
a near-perfect Dino without wheels up on jackstands.  
Everybody had left in rumbling order but I had to keep wandering
around.  I noticed a guy with his head buried inside the engine bay of
the weirdest looking "space car" I'd ever seen:
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/01/01/cizeta-moroder-auction/
It was this exact car. (below may be a repeat of a story you've heard
me tell): I asked him what the heck is this car and he stopped
working, seemingly relieved to have an opportunity to take a cig
break.  Nearly an hour then passed most delightfully while he happily
answered every question I had about his work and the cars in the
place.  Needed repairs to the Moroder car apparently had reduced all
the local guys to shoulder-shrugging, babbling head-scratchers so they
called him.  
Minimum $10K whenever his phone rang, typical job north of $30K, all
expenses paid (travel and hotels). He commented on how much he liked
Panteras and we got to talking about Italian car build quality.  He
walked over to the Dino:
"Check out the body welds under the wheel wells."   Looked to me like
somebody had learned how to weld by building Dino bodies.  
"Holy crap!" I said.  'You gonna fix those?"
"Yep.  Gonna re-do every weld nice and strong and then after I will
glob metal slop welds over the top of them." "Huh?"
He nodded.  "Judges at car shows need to see the shitty welds or else
the car loses points."
"So then why re-do them at all?"
He laughed.   "Car falls apart."
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   Happy New Normal Year in Hell ! (as demons gather, darkness continues
   to descend upon humanity and we pretend all is well....)

   Some folks here may remember a POCA fun rally in Monterey some years
   back when we went to the Bruce Canepa Museum in Santa Cruz.

   I was lagging behind everyone due to my total amazement at the place
   and wound up in the mechanics' work area looking at racer Porsches and
   a

   near-perfect Dino without wheels up on jackstands.

   Everybody had left in rumbling order but I had to keep wandering
   around.  I noticed a guy with his head buried inside the engine bay of
   the weirdest looking "space car" I'd ever seen:



   [1]https://www.autoblog.com/2022/01/01/cizeta-moroder-auction/

   It was this exact car.



   (below may be a repeat of a story you've heard me tell):



   I asked him what the heck is this car and he stopped working, seemingly
   relieved to have an opportunity to take a cig break.  Nearly an hour
   then passed most delightfully while he happily answered every question
   I had about his work and the cars in the place.  Needed repairs to the
   Moroder car apparently had reduced all the local guys to
   shoulder-shrugging, babbling head-scratchers so they called him.

   Minimum $10K whenever his phone rang, typical job north of $30K, all
   expenses paid (travel and hotels).



   He commented on how much he liked Panteras and we got to talking about
   Italian car build quality.  He walked over to the Dino:

   "Check out the body welds under the wheel wells."



   Looked to me like somebody had learned how to weld by building Dino
   bodies.

   "Holy crap!" I said.  'You gonna fix those?"

   "Yep.  Gonna re-do every weld nice and strong and then after I will
   glob metal slop welds over the top of them."



   "Huh?"

   He nodded.  "Judges at car shows need to see the shitty welds or else
   the car loses points."

   "So then why re-do them at all?"

   He laughed.   "Car falls apart."

   Sent using Hushmail

References

   1. https://www.autoblog.com/2022/01/01/cizeta-moroder-auction/