DeTomaso Mailing List: June 99, Message #232

From:	"Sedon, Doug (OD/ORS)" <sedond@ors.od.nih.gov>
Subject:	shane's pantera; cool engine noises
Date:	Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:10:24 -0400


hi shane,

sounds like one hell of a nice pantera for $25k!  if i hadn't yust recently
gotten one, i'd be sorely tempted...  but, really, ewe shood keep it!

coodn't help notice your ducati remark: "Ducati's are as frail as eggshells, and
the old ones are now relegated as trailer queens (I know, I've raced 250, 350
and 900 desmos)."  as i've coveted a bevel-drive ducati darmah since about 1981,
i finally got a decent example w/about 16+k miles last year.  it's now pushing
20k miles - has to share time w/a buell, 3 alfas, and the new pantera.  great
bike, not frail by any means, definitely not a trailer queen, the most beautiful
m/c engine ever, along w/the round-case bevel drives, and the absolute
best-sounding exhaust of ANY land-operated vehicle i know, bar none!!!  :>)

ciao for now,

doug s