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

Tue Mar 16 12:29:52 EDT 2010

There is a guy near me doing a similar thing.  I don't have the  
details, but do know he offers cars for rent at the local track days.

Asa Jay

Quoting RFogle1 at aol.com:

> 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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> <<  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.
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>> 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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