Tenney's 64 Wangers GTO... - Page 13

**Xplantdad** · #**121** 03-28-2011, 05:55 AM

That's sad I remember him from Car and Driver!

**Tenney** · #**122** 03-28-2011, 06:33 AM

**mockingbird812** · #**123** 03-28-2011, 06:55 AM

Good stuff Tenney!

**olredalert** · #**124** 03-28-2011, 05:46 PM

----I met D.E.D. at a Meadowbrook function one time about 5/6 years ago and he sure seemed like the real thing. A car guy to the Nth degree. R.I.P......Bill S

**Tenney** · #**125** 03-28-2011, 07:07 PM

GTO vs. GTO, 1964

"The hook on which we hung the magazine."

I feel pretty lucky to have met Dave (as he introduced himself) last May. A legend whose editorials I'd enjoyed for years - he's Hemmingway to pretty much any automotive journalist you might come across - Dave couldn't have been more accommodating with my questions about my car and the road test (occasionally giving Mr. Wangers grief for slipping him a "ringer"!), while kindly sharing an anecdote or two of his own.

Recalling his writing, our conversations over the course of that weekend (and a few eavesdropped upon), it's tough not to be left with the sense that Mr. Davis made the most of his turn. Good guy. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/burnout.gif[/img]

**Tracker1** · #**126** 03-29-2011, 04:02 AM

"...in purely visceral automotive terms, I remember only that the first Mustang I drove caused me to cut my finger on an exposed sheet metal edge in the trunk, while my first ride in a GTO left me with a feeling like losing my virginity, going into combat and tasting my first draft beer all in about seven seconds.
I remember that the GTO slammed out of the hole like it was being fired from a catapult, that the tach needle slung itself across the dial like a windshield wiper, that the noise from the three two-throat carburetors on that heavy old 389 cubic inch Pontiac V-8 sounded like some awful doomsday Hoover vacuum God sucking up sinners." - David E. Davis

A gifted man. R.I.P.

**Tenney** · #**127** 07-01-2011, 05:54 PM

J-Dub beltin' one out on his 85th ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29_Ua...ature=youtu.be

CR97WS6 · #**128** 09-14-2011, 05:48 AM

I really like the 64s, cool to see such a documented car

**Tenney** · #**129** 11-02-2011, 06:11 AM

"Best Paint & Finish" (kinda cool and surprising as we'd registered "display-only&quot

among some pretty nice stuff - Go, Scott!! -

http://www.elegantcars.com/events/20...ta-barbara-ca/

Got to drive this time, too ...

**Xplantdad** · #**130** 11-02-2011, 07:36 AM

Awesome!