DeTomaso Mailing List: August 97, Message #35
     



From: "Curt T." <curt@digitalthunder.com>

Subject: Re: Monterey Weedend

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:09:15 -0700



Mike Wrote:



>Remember, Panteras were not built, and we haven't spent all this money on

>them, to drone up interstates like I-5.  So for all those who like to yank

>and bank in their cars, I propose the following alternate routes:



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>Put THAT in your trip computer and smoke it! (Seriously, I wonder if you

>wouldn't mind running these calculations and see how much longer it is?)  If

>you're driving a motorhome, I-5 works like a champ.  But if you're in a

>Pantera, use it for all it's worth!



>Mike





Well Mike, I do drive my Pantera. (32K was on it when I bougth it in 94, now it has 

49K and one spun half shaft and two spun balancers later, I drive it hard that's why I 

get 1TO9 MPG!) I almost always take longer (time wise, because sometime the fun 

road is shorter) fun routes over mega hwys!  But then again when I went with the Club 

to Vegas what route did the group take!



So, in my last message I plotted what the computer came up with first:

Least Time Route, Shortest Route, Senic Route.  I was planning on taking the 

coast hwy route (I still may on the way back, photo op!).  But, I plotted (or smoked) 

out your sugestions (I have never been on 33 or 25 most because I've never driven my 

Pantera up north yet, so having heard your comments these sound great)





again, for comparison these all start from I-10 and I-15:



10  134  101  33  198  101  68  = 407 miles

10  134  101  33  198  25  156 1  = 419 miles

10  134  101  33  198  191 G17  = 404 miles



and if you use the 5  126  150 to get to the 33 is 3 miles shorter than above. 



Curt T.

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