[DeTomaso] Big Bend ORR report

[John Taphorn]

Congratulations BBOR racers.  Sounds like everyone had a good time despite 
Will's setback.

Will, do you think you may have broken a ring or the land when installing 
the piston?  That make the most sense to me.  Unless the cylinder was 
extremely lean; although that seems to early in the race to be catastrophic.

JT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Will Kooiman" <wkooiman at earthlink.net>
To: "'michael frazier'" <red3644 at hotmail.com>; "'pantera list'" 
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Big Bend ORR report


> 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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