[DeTomaso] Photos -Andy at Le Mans Classic: what an experience !

["Axel Kühn"]

Hi Pat,

I found this link:

http://boutique.lemans.org/index7.php?n=234&nom=LE%20MANS%20CLASSIC%20-%20PLATEAU%206%20-%20JUILLET%202006

Great photos of yout car and all the other cars.

Axel
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Datum: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:44:12 +0200
Von: Patrick Hals <patrickhals at skynet.be>
An: Charles McCall <CharlesMcCall at telefonica.net>, detomaso at realbig.com
Betreff: Re: [DeTomaso] Andy at Le Mans Classic: what an experience !

> Stopped moving...not happy... ???
> No way, I will be more than happy to see those pics, especially with my
> deluxe mechanics pushing alltogether on the pitlane.
> You know, we had an ATL gas tank with 62 liters ( you said gallons ??? )
> and
> the car is taking about 100 liters per hour...Mathematically, we had
> expected the empty tank. I saw a long forum about gas mileage a while ago,
> and now, it makes me laugh a little bit, as you can figure out. Still ,
> the
> car had moved 13 places ahead in the last session ( 25th overall ) before
> it
> ran out of gas.
> Unfortunately, as the car arrived late from NYC, we had no time to order
> and
> change the tank, and didn't want to cheat... Question of self respect and
> courtesy to those who are fair players.
> After all, it is sport and fun, right ?
> Happy you enjoyed and had a great time at Le Mans Classic. See you in two
> years, or , preferably, earlier, may be in Spain.
> Pat
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles McCall" <CharlesMcCall at telefonica.net>
> To: "'Patrick Hals'" <patrickhals at skynet.be>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Andy at Le Mans Classic: what an experience !
> 
> 
> > Patrick -
> > Was great seeing you AND the car at Le Mans.
> >
> > Mike is still running around Europe but I'm sure he'll have a complete
> > writeup when he gets back. He and Gray were up for something like 40
> hours
> > straight, helping Patrick get his car back on the track.
> >
> > I'll also give a more complete write-up when I get a minute - I'm trying
> to
> > catch up with the work I missed while out playing with cars. Patrick -
> I'll
> > most likely drop you an e-mail this weekend and send you a bunch of
> > photos... I will say that it is DARN hard to shoot decent pictures of a
> > Pantera flying by at those speeds, but I have a bunch that I think
> you'll
> be
> > happy with. (and some that you may not - when you stopped moving at the
> end,
> > it was a LOT easier to take pictures!!!!! ;-) )
> >
> >
> > Charles McCall
> > 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
> > "Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
> > http://photos.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985
> >
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> En
> > nombre de Patrick Hals
> > Enviado el: Wednesday, 12 July, 2006 7:56 PM
> > Para: detomaso at realbig.com
> > Asunto: [DeTomaso] Andy at Le Mans Classic: what an experience !
> >
> > I am working on a report about Andy GT4 2342 at Le Mans Classic this
> last
> > week end, and , as I still have to work from time to time...I will post
> this
> > one probably on Friday evening, European time.
> > In the meantime and before all, I wish to express my deepest thanks to
> all
> > of you ( family, friends, aficionados from all over the world ) who have
> > supported and helped me before and during the event, especially two
> deluxe
> > mechanics, beerdrinkers and cheerleaders, i.e. Mike Drew and Gray
> Gregory.
> > The most frustrating thing today is that I have very few pictures of the
> car
> > in the race, so please SEND it to me, either by mail or on CD.
> > If there is one thing among the so many ones I will remember about the
> race
> > itself, it is that, when the car started to work +/- properly in
> daytime-dry
> > conditions,( i.e.in the last Plateau 6 session ), it was just as fast as
> a
> > fighter jet ! Boy, it is SOOO powerful, all the others, even the protos,
> > were just obliterated. Also, the noise, wow... :>)) and the speed in
> > Hunaudières .
> > Do we all really have to wait two more years for the next Le Mans
> Classic
> > ???
> > Patrick
> >
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