Reply to "Million Dollar Cars"

If "Rides" goes for it, I'm sure I'll remember it for a lifetime, and I'm sure a lot more people will get there. It's a little effort to prep up the car while it's still cold, plus 10 or so hours each way. Being there will be an adrenaline rush, without a trip to jail in handcuffs for seeing what my car will do. If "Rides" goes for it, I'm sure they'll shoot footage from other locations as well, it's all out of my control. I'm just trying to do the pitch better, like how many millions of others want to turn on their TV and see the same thing. So, I'm just saying it, out loud.

No one has to 'pitch' this idea. Hey, I'm tired too, but I went to a funeral last Thursday, and the guy was only five years older than me. This happened and it shocked me again, as it sometimes does. So I say, I'm going to look at this as the glass is half full, right? I say, I'm going to live the best life I can, and my adrenaline car is an outlet for fun in my life. When my time comes, at my funeral, I want them to show an hour video of "Rides" and watch me have fun, really live life, and say, he really made an effort to get that show produced, exercised all his influential talents, and there he is, on TV, hauling a.., right there in his Pantera on TV, because he wanted it to happen. Then, my life was about making effort and rewarding myself for the achievement. So, I said to myself: Go for it, live life the way you want to, the best way you can. You'll be surprised how things can happen, if you make the effort. I am not going to be depressed about some bifocals, or a cane and walker. I'll watch the video, and do something else that's cool to do. That's the way it has to be.

And if Bud wants to do an Episode on "Overhaulin'" and likes Pantera's because they get great viewership, then I'll slip a hint to do my Pantera and if it should havebodywork, then do the bodywork like jvs@mig.cc did his. (See page 11, Pantera pics [1], red. I know De Tomaso wasn't making GT5S's in 1972, s/n 2200.) But I am not into bodywork, I'm into tricked out technology, handling, top speed, braking, lateral G-force, acceleration and performance. I'll be surprised, and that's a fact, if that happens.

Nobody's got to get into the project with me, I'm just doing it for fun, because I'm bored, because I want to have some fun, and because this is a different thing to do.

No, I'm really doing it because I hope to do a report on the G-Tech meter and want to do a comparison test in three cars with three drivers to compare and show everybody. This means each of us gets to drive two other cars besides their own, we compare the printout graphs on the computer, and thus, I've tricked them into letting me drive a new Ford GT, a 750 horsepower Pantera, and my stock Pantera. Just because it would be fun. And it will be fun, but I'll have fun anyway, even if only the usual crowd shows up. Maybe see you there DOES200, eh? I'm going to try and hook up with some folks coming thru from Georgia, to do the last leg of the journey with them. Four Pantera's, and that'll be fun, too. That's what it's all about....

Am I too pumped up about it? You're supposed to laugh and watch and see, that's all.... Don't worry if it doesn't happen, then they can all laugh at me at Vegas 2005 and I'll be laughing the hardest of all. And I'd like to have a video of that on my VCR, too. Either way!
VFI