DeTomaso Mailing List: December 99, Message #343

To All,

It finally arrived!  As you may recall, this past spring I had my Pantera 
video taped by a German Television crew here in New Mexico.  I had titled the 
posting to this forum "Ever had an airplane give you a haircut?" because the 
story revolved around the New Mexico state police chasing speeders by 
aircraft.  I also wrote a story about it for Pantera International.  One 
delay after another postponed the arrival of the video which aired on the 
German version of ESPN called "Fazination Oldtimer" (loosely translated as 
Vintage Car World).

It really turned out fantastic!  Even though the narration is completely in 
German the entire program is almost 60 minutes long and incredible!  My 
portion of the program is approximately 15 minutes and the rest is on lost of 
other vintage cars including Jaguar, Mercedes, great Vintage races (which 
included Shelby Mustangs, Mini Coopers (man, can they corner!) Volkswagens 
and such.  I was rivited to the TV watching it!  

What I thought was a blast is that the VERY first thing that appears on the 
beginning of the program is my burnout which cracked the camera lens!  Way 
too cool!

Even if you HATE Panteras the rest of the stuff on the tape is really great 
even though it is in German!  Hey, we should have a big party and Peter the 
German could translate for us!  Man, we have someone available for anything 
in this club! :o)

I contacted the guy who converted the video from PAL (the European system) to 
our NTSC (I think that's what our system is called) and he said if I order 10 
or more copies of the tape, he can greatly reduce the price of transfering it 
and it comes out as a very high quality first generation copy.  I was quite 
impressed with the quality of my copy.

So what it boils down to it this.  The cost of the tape will be $18.20 
(includes $3.20 for Priority Mail shipping).  If you would like a copy of 
this tape, please e-mail me privately.  I will give you all the details as to 
where to send the payment.

Hey, that reminds me....I ordered the Car and Driver Video of Ron Graves car 
many moons ago and still haven't recieved it.  Has anyone out there got their 
copy from Car and Driver yet?

Jim Demick
New Mexico