[DeTomaso] Carl "Pappy" Young Passes Away - an ORR Legend

[George P Dausch IV]

As I frequently say, you only get old if you're lucky.
Live life to the fullest.
 
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:18:25 -0800 (PST) Mad Dog Antenucci
<teampantera at yahoo.com> writes:
> Many of you who have raced ORR in Nevada and Texas will remember Carl 
> "Pappy" Young. 
>   I just found out today he passed away. Along with Junior he was 
> one of the original open road racers going back to '88. 
>    
>   Pappy always drove the 'other' P-car at SilverState driving his 
> street licensed Porsche (s) at close to unlimited speeds. He was one 
> of the first veteran racers to adopt Team Pantera Racing. 
>    
>   Pappy started the Porsche Wine & Cheese Party at the Silver State 
> and was reknowned for his practical jokes like putting trojan 
> condoms over rookies antenna's or allowing me the 'first' 
> sledgehammer hit to the side door of a Porsche all in the name of 
> charity....what he never told me was he had added some plate steel 
> reinforcement to the back of the door of his parted out 
> Porsche...when my sledgehammer bounced off the door I think my hands 
> vibrated for a week.....he was a hellva competitor and a true friend 
> to the sport of ORR and Team Pantera Racing.
>    
>   One of the many stories about Pappy was that 3 days after open 
> heart surgery he came back to run at Silver state....of course no 
> one knew at the time he had just had the surgery but as I recall he 
> averaged well in excess to 170 mph.  Pappy liked to say he after 
>   flying F-100 and F-105's in Vietnam at tree top level going 170 
> mph was no big deal...he was one hellva good man and will be missed 
> by all who knew him.
>    
> 
> 
> Mad Dawg Antenucci 
> Team Pantera Racing 
>   The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
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