[DeTomaso] Autocrossing a Pantera - was RFR

[michael frazier]

Near the end of the last century I Auto-X'd for a while here in San Antonio in a Triumph, Honda and a Boss302.  We did the parking lot venues
like everyone else and it was alot of fun.  We moved to Brooks AFB for awhile.  I thought we would be using the parking ramps but ended up
with the ramps, taxiways and runways for a huge course.  100++ mph speeds were easy in the Mustang.  Things were on the edge of getting
out of hand so they tightened it up.  It was all fun though. :)

Michael Frazier
Gruppo Rompiculi Corsa 



 
> From: JDeRyke at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:38:35 -0400
> To: michaelsavga at gmail.com
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Autocrossing a Pantera - was RFR
> 
> In a message dated 10/13/10 11:25:52 AM, michaelsavga at gmail.com writes:
> 
> > In AutoX, it ain't about speed and power, it's about being smoothest, 
> > most often the slow looking cars are fast and the loud, tire squealing, 
> > sliding, spinning dudes are slow.
> > Women are really good at this, in fact, the best AutoX driver I ever saw 
> > drive in person was a woman in a 914-2.0 with webers, she looked like sugar, 
> > drove like what looked like honey being poured and had times that knocked 
> > the boys out cold.
> > 
> I was never able to beat Judy's times by more than 1 second in the same 
> car, so if I got frisky and caught a pylon (+1 second), I lost our personal 
> battle... more than once! She says she forced me to learn to be smooth... which 
> is true.
> Some of the more memorable auto-Xs we ran involved an ex-Corvette racer 
> that bought a modified Pantera... Being used to his 'Vette, he never got the 
> hang of driving a quick-steering, mid-engined car, and couldn't handle the 
> fact that Judy, in our stone-stock Pantera with narrower tires, was faster. He 
> finally sold the thing after 2 years of trying. And I believe Dave Adler 
> still says Linda is faster than he in their GR-5 'Whiplash'. Good times in 
> low-key car games- J Deryke
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