quote:Originally posted by Raiden:
Hi Joe,
I will be picking my car up from Marino Performance Motors (in West Palm Beach) at lunch time today. I saw the Pantera when it first came out in 1971, at the Lincoln Mecury dealership across from my highschool. My father said no way he was going to buy that car for me, said something about me killing myself. Now at 57, I am hoping his prophesy doesnt come true. If anything, death will occur when my wife sees and hears this car later today.
You need to be your own person and be you for you.
Parents, wives, teachers all have this major disappointment in you when you express what you like and want.
I stopped living for everyone else years ago.
I could give a flying fig what others think at this point.
I have found that it never is a good perspective. It is always disappointment. It's a "you could be so much better than this!" thing for some reason. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has experience that?
I ran into someone I went to high school with at a red light. His expression was, "is that real...where did you get that?"
It was a negative reaction. It was a "what is a person like you doing with something like that?" thing.
I said, "no, it is an inflatable balloon I got at 'Toys are us".
I once went to pick up a date in my Shelby GT350, and she said, and I quote, "I'm not getting in that thing".
In retrospect, probably saved me a lot of grief.
In any case, welcome to Pantera ownership. I think you will find that even within uniqueness, you are in a unique group? ...and I mean that positively. They're a good group.
Life is short...enjoy.
