DeTomaso Mailing List: April 2000, Message #256

If Wyss is so concerned in automobile mechanical failures, what about Kelly
Sievers Vette that cracked up at silverstate.  Does that mean that Vette
owners will do anything for attention???

Dave "might get me mad" D

At 02:06 PM 4/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>What would Wyss have been able to do differently in the 
>2 insidences he pointed out?  Likely nothing.  We that drive 
>25+ year old cars, I mean really drive them, we all know that 
>anything can happen.  I've personally seen that DeTomaso 
>racers go through a very high level of preperation, just as I've 
>seen those of other marques do none.  BTW, I can figure that 
>Wallace had not seen the Car & Drive program on the Pantera, 
>or the March 2000 european car magazine, or any of the many 
>good things that has come those of us that have put our cars 
>at risk by driving them. 
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>In the case I know of which was Dennis' fire, that even if he 
>didn't run the race and just drove the car home, the same thing 
>would have happened.  It was a problem that 6 men were not 
>able to detect.  Too bad Walace wasn't there, maybe he would 
>have made the difference.  Likely not, but if he was there his 
>story would have been a bit different.  Yet he wasn't there, he 
>didn't see what preperation was done.  
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>Wyss' point of proper preperation is well meaning, yet his one 
>example should have read "and no matter how prepared you 
>are stuff still happens!".  He is also right about the press not 
>covering the uneventful (those that do race and win) while 
>focusing on the big fire, or major wreck.  How true, and his 
>article certainly proved that.  
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>Every day you drive your car you put it at risk.  
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>Curt T.
>1TO9 MPG
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