<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Interesting observation...many great cars started out pure and then got re-marketed into heavy cruisers.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Domestic cars seem to go the other way. They start out as a joke and then slowly get improved into something good...then dead.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
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bold;">To:</span></b> Charles McCall <charlesmccall@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> detomaso@poca.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [DeTomaso] NPC - Did Datsun 240Z's always sound this good?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5265849170"><div><div dir="ltr">I remember those, never could afford one ehen they were still cool and certainly couldn't when they became a bloated GT ( 280zx ).<br clear="none">
Had friends with them, the 240 was the only one to have, the 260 never ran right and the 280 lost its edge completely. Hard to find one now, most were equipped with rust attractors.<br clear="none">
The sounds of those webers were unmistakable and what looks to be minimal ( if at all) exhaust. I always considered it to be the reincarnation of an MGB, followed by the Gen 1 RX-7 and then the Miata.<br clear="none">
Too bad that once a cool car comes out, they always seem to improve it until ruination. </div>
<div dir="ltr"> Michael Shortt</div>
<div class="yiv5265849170gmail_quote">On Oct 31, 2013 2:36 PM, "Charles McCall" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:charlesmccall@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:charlesmccall@gmail.com">charlesmccall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv5265849170gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="yiv5265849170yqt6192056913" id="yiv5265849170yqt63333"><div lang="ES"><div><div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-GB">I can’t get over the sound that the car makes in this video:<u></u><u></u></span></div><div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2y_-vpolA&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLtoI3QrvJpTzxHu7Arw78-AgNoEu0dgL0"><span style="color:#3b5998;text-decoration:none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO2y_-vpolA&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLtoI3QrvJpTzxHu7Arw78-AgNoEu0dgL0</span></a>,<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></div><div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-GB">It’s not a stock exhaust system or a stock engine (why does that sound familiar on the DeTomaso forum?) but I can’t get over how amazing this car sounds…<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-GB">I never paid all that much attention to 240z’s, as they were a little before my time, but I found the video interesting<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div class="yiv5265849170MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Charles McCall<br clear="none">Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe<br clear="none">1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375<br clear="none">
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