DeTomaso Mailing List: May 2001, Message #118

Happy Saturday & everything else: Cinco de Mayo, week after the Fun Run, 
couple weeks before Silver State, month before Reno, 1-3/4 months before the 
school year ends, two months before Pocono, 2 months and 10 days before my 
birthday, 3 months before Monterey, and about 359 days before I recover from 
the Las Vegas Raffle!!!!  -- While I am a teensy bit sorry I did not arise in 
time for Donut Derelicts, and to say hi to Racerman Tom and the HB crew, I 
did do my P. part in my end of the city, at Toluca Lake Bob's Big Boy car 
shindig, last evening.  After chit chat and Big Boys with my eclectic car 
bunch, we exited to see a crowd surrounding something shimmering in the 
night's light.  As I approached.... I caught a glimpse of a set of those 
group 5 rear lights.. and surely enough.. it was a beautiful silvery, and pin 
striped, no less, Pantera.  Isn't it something how these cars draw the 
crowd.... There is no doubt.. our cars have charisma.   While waiting to meet 
the owner of this gem, Chris Cox #3745,  I got to meet another Pantera owner 
in the crowd, Frank Van Der Laan, ('71, #1425, ) and just happens to work 
with Richard B... small world!!!   Both charming fellows who expressed their 
disappointment that they had not been able to make the Fun Rally.... so I did 
my vice presidential duties and filled them in on the Reno event, the Mike 
Mayberry Open House on June 9th. etc.  -- Then, this morning, I awakened to 
my newest favorite channel, Romance, second only to Speedvision, and watched 
a beautiful movie... about an Irish governess in Spain in the turbulent 30's, 
 I love that kind of movie.  So... no donuts for me, unless they're 360's in 
one of my cars.
xo (laundry) FirSSt
and if you're going to celebrate Cinco de Mayo... do it with Patron : ))))