[DeTomaso] Big Bend ORR report

[Will Kooiman]

We made it back last night without any problems.  I owe a lot to the Pantera
team for getting me back safely.

It was a fun weekend despite breaking.  We were close enough to the starting
line that they gave us a ride back at half time.  We got to watch the cars
coming back.  The M&M car passed the finish line at 185mph.

There were sooo many Mad Dawg jokes I couldn't keep track.  They were all
something like, "If that scrawny dawg comes around here again, I'm going to
slap him into the middle of next week."  I tried to take up for you M.D.,
but that chick was pretty mean looking.

Yes, as M.F. said, we broke with piston parts on the top of the engine.
There was a lot of water and oil.  I didn't see any holes anywhere, but I
haven't had a chance to look closely either.  If you look closely at the
piston part, it appears to be at the ring land - with a Chevy bowtie imprint
on it.  I think I sucked up part of a Corvette as I passed.

I'll post pics and descriptions when I pull it apart.  It's going to be a
week or two, though.

Will.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of michael frazier
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:55 PM
To: pantera list
Subject: [DeTomaso] Big Bend ORR report


  We had a team this even if we had to get a little creative.  We had 3
Panteras, 1 Mangusta and since that was it,I drafted a 64 Lincoln
Continental to run as an official member of Team Pantera Racing.  The
weather was perfect,the event ran flawlessly, many cars broke but no one was
hurt.  So all is good.  We did everything right.  I seemed tohave pissed off
several Vette owners. (Some I didn't even know about).  Steve Hawkins almost
got in a fight withan oil field roughneck.  Gary & Sylvia ran the Mangusta
again!  Will Kooiman told the worst jokes all weekend.  Greatfriends, food,
cars & racing.  The team did well....as usual.  I took home 1st place in the
120mph class.  Steve Hawkinsand his brother Cliff took 2nd in the 110mph
class.  Gary and Sylvia Barkley took 2nd in the 90mph.  Will Kooiman andhis
brother Rodney took home parts of pistons that ended up on top of the intake
manifold about 5 miles from the starting line.  We'll have to wait for the
autopsy before we determine the cause of death.  I had driven my new Pantera
about a mile before the event so I was happy to just finish.  I'm also happy
that the car ran right up to 150mph and was still pulling hard.  I also
happy that I didn't do that ina radar zone since my tech speed was 140.
Dennis...you're no
longer holder of the fastest Pantera at Big Bend title.  You'll hear more
from the other guys I'm sure.  If you weren't
there, you were SO square.  
Michael
Gruppo Rompiculi Corsa Y'all
 
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