[DeTomaso] Would you race if you could rent a Pantera?

Tue Mar 16 10:52:38 EDT 2010

Fifteen years ago or so I sold a Honda CRX Si to a guy who came to  pick it 
up in a race trailer.  I asked him what he was going to do with it  and he 
said he would strip it down, install a roll cage, do some engine mods,  and 
rent it out to guys who wanted to race on the weekends at Wolf Ledges, a  
local track.  My car was going to be the fifth in his stable.  He  offered me 
a chance to drive it on the track and I never took him up on it....  Big 
mistake, in hindsight.  It would have been a lot of fun.  He was a  Honda 
mechanic and I guess it turned out to be quite a business for him.  I  went to 
his shop one time and he was looking at buying a semi to move the  cars.  
State Troopers said he was overloading his dually pickup hauling  them around.   
Lots of Doctor, Lawyer, professional types want to  try weekend racing, 
without the burden of actually buying and maintaining the  car.

Ron
Akron

In a message dated 3/16/2010 3:21:57 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
LaurieFerrari at aol.com writes:

Dawg and  P public... I do (as does MD, obviously) have  a buoyant  
imagination.   Here's my idea to handle this  ongoing race  recruitment 
barrage. Team 
Pantera Racing gets 10  Panteras,  sponsored, donated, whatever, somehow, 
someway.  The  cars are  perfect for racing but not what we'd call Concours 
beauties, aka  Rat  Rod P's.  They are then available to rent.  Instead  of 
TPR  
offering millions of dollars in prize $ for  first this or that, TPR  finds 
a 
way to insure  the cars of course.  Your body and your  nut sacks are  your 
own personal problem.  We then have a good  consistent  race team of at 
least 
10 P's for competition; The  Rotten  P's.  This way you don't have to wait 
to 
have all this  fun; you needn't  worry about the laborious effort and 
expense in  getting your own car  ready, nor worry about encountering any  
unforeseen  calamity.   
Otherwise, the 2011 Vette idea  was a good one too.  :  )   
Laurie (maybe too much sun  today in  SoCA?)
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You better get some Larry  ;-)

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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<<  Laurie has nut sacks?>>

Yes, I think she calls them Madd  Dogg...

Larry (just say no) -  Cleveland

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Laurie has nut  sacks?

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>
>Thanks  ;-]>
>
>Pleeeze.... we gots a bunch of studs who are still  kicking ass in street
modified or full race go-fast triple digit  Pantera's.....Michael, Will, JT,

Steve leading the effort down in Texas  and Rowdy in Nebraska...so come on

now!

>
>JB, Rich,  Jason, Bob, MikeT,  Crazy Dave, Crazy Dan, Erik, Bob, the Pope,
and  other veterans AWOL for last couple years will be back in 2010.....yea 
 i

know they all said that last year too...but;

>
>The  economy,  job and investment losses etc, knocked quite a few of  our
guys out of a lot of competition or finishing their Pantera's last year  or

so....but others are working on their rides. Guys like Julian, AJ,  YOU,

Kirby, Gary, Erik...okay so none of those guys are from  SoCal  but you know

what I mean. 

>
>Laurie told  me this weekend that unless some of these guys get some nut
sacks she is  going to have to come out of retirement!!! ;-]>

>
>If I  thought most of these old bastards would not come back I'd buy a  new
Corvette in 2011. Or a '63 Ferrari Lusso or marry a russian child bride  or

solve world hunger, fix the environment, job loss, wall street and  banking

corruption, etc.  

> 
>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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