[DeTomaso] Track Car/Street Car news

Mad Dog Antenucci teampantera at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 2 03:57:18 EDT 2010


Thanks....I met Franks son once at the Huntington Beach Concourse in California 
and he gave me some details on the accident.  I wanted to give him something in 
memory of his dad and i didn't have much except shirts so I gave him a TPR shirt 
which included his dads name on the back of the shirt and later sent him a 
plaque. Yea, I know it wasn't much.

It was obvious Franks family and friends missed him allot....And I have to say 
the Mexican's in Ensenada all remembered him. When i was at the start line of 
the Hill Climb with Dick Drenske and everyone put their 'hands' on my Pantera I 
didn't realize until later they were praying.

Did not PI or POCA do a story about Frank's race years with the Pantera +/- 20 
years ago?

Dennis

 
 
Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com




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From: "MACHWIL at aol.com" <MACHWIL at aol.com>
To: teampantera at yahoo.com; JDeRyke at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 10:29:57 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Track Car/Street Car news

That would have been Frank Gerum, Dawg.



In a message dated 7/1/2010 1:26:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
teampantera at yahoo.com writes:
It may not have made a difference but doesn't the Virginia City Hill Climb 
>sanctioning body require 'full 6-point roll cage or just a roll bar?
>
>When I ran the Pantera in Mexico they changed the rules to add the roll cage 
>requirement after one of our Pantera guys (forget his name) was killed in 
>Ensenada Road Race (Jack-Mike??) 10 years earlier... he reportedly went off the 

>road in the Pantera on a turn with just the roll bar and went down an embankment 
>
>and landed on his roof.   The same rule applied for the La Bufadora Hill Climb 
>when I ran that....everyone needed a full roll cage. 
>
>
>Its not the fall that kills you....its the impact 
>
>
>Mad Dawg Antenucci 
>Team Pantera Racing 
>The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
>www.teampanteraracing.com
>
>
>
>
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>From: "JDeRyke at aol.com" <JDeRyke at aol.com>
>To: RCBSONS1 at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>Sent: Wed, June 30, 2010 9:24:41 PM
>Subject: [DeTomaso] Track Car/Street Car news
>
>FWIW, we had a death at the Virginia City Hillclimb outside Carson City 
>(now with a changed name & new sanctioning body) over the weekend. Young guy in 

>a Porsche Turbo drove off the side of the mountain at pretty high speed. 
>Seat belt, shoulder harness & current full-face helmet still left him DOA at 
>the bottom. Dunno what actually did the deed- no fire, anyway. Gotta know 
>your (and your car's) limitations... J DeRyke
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