[TPR] Love This - Merry Christmas car guys!!!

Sat Dec 11 11:10:23 PST 2010

Dear Dennis,

            Umm, no I have always been in Oklahoma except for "TDY" out of
the country.   

             The Olds died in Wichita....because of my sister in law.   A
delightful lady, but liberal democrat and ex-NYC prima ballerina.   She was
very keen on save the planet issues and did drive a small, fuel efficient,
environmentally friendly car.    She drove it until she was T-boned at an
intersection in Phoenix.   She suffered some broken bones.   When she moved
out to join my brother in Wichita, he asked if they could have the family
beater, the 1972 Olds Delta 88.   It seems that his wife had suddenly
reflected on the merits of saving the planet with small, fuel efficient cars
and decided that she preferred to have a LOT of heavy metal around her even
if it was rusty and had a V8!    They drove it until the transmission quit
and it was donated to a worthy charity in Wichita.    My brother would have
donated it to the NRA and she would have given it to Greenpeace!

                                Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles

From: Mad Dog Antenucci [mailto:teampantera at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:32 AM
To: Charles Engles; DET PH Antenucci, Dominic J LT NLSO PAC; Dolan
Antenucci; Jonathan Demers; john.demers at hotmail.com; Isabella Antenucci;
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Eliot Kushner; Henry Amigable; Lyle Kelsey; Mark Frank; Richard Lizama;
Ronnie Artuz; tony DiGiovanna; Will Kooiman
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Subject: Re: [TPR] Love This - Merry Christmas car guys!!!

Wichita Kansas? And you moved to Oklahoma? ;-]>

Just kidding.....my rust bucket was a 62 Chevy Pick up....which I bought as
a firewood and garbage transporter which soon became the UNPAID transportor
for all the relatives and neighbors in Seattle....in those days (late 70's)
there were few pick ups in the City.....anyway it was so bad (how bad was
it?)............

that when I drove I could look down through the floor boards.....rust was so
much worse on body and  frame....remember not having ANY brakes coasting
down from mountains with a full load of firewood....down or upshifted all
the way back into Seattle using an emergency brake....got pulled over by WSP
one time for going too slow...said my excuse was the load of firewood in the
truck bed.....he took one look at the truck and then me, and said get off
the highway if you can't maintain 50 mph.....I might have been going 50 mph
down hill....maybe more but I got that load of firewood back to the house
and the right front wheel fell off the truck soon as I moved it.  

How'd that happen?! ;-)

Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 

The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com

  _____  

From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
To: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>; "DET PH Antenucci, Dominic J
LT NLSO PAC" <dominic.antenucci at navy.mil>; Dolan Antenucci
<antenucci.d at gmail.com>; Jonathan Demers <yaniusaurelius at gmail.com>;
john.demers at hotmail.com; Isabella Antenucci <iantenucci at student.cccd.edu>;
maryte57 at ymsn.com; falconsimage at msn.com; john bentley <gndplne at yahoo.com>;
eb20erik at yahoo.com; Peter Menyhart <pmenyhart at msn.com>;
peter_beckham at agilent.com; chuck.brown at yahoo.com;
ddrenske at murraycompany.com; diiulio at ix.netcom.com; eweiler at lawa.org;
hoppe1 at cox.net; paulirish at earthlink.net; Samuel.Luzano at parsons.com;
TomKing123 at aol.com; Eliot Kushner <eliotk at cox.net>; Henry Amigable
<hamigable at sevillecs.com>; Lyle Kelsey <elkelsey at cox.net>; Mark Frank
<uscmdf at gmail.com>; Richard Lizama <richardl at morilloconstruction.com>;
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Cc: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Sent: Fri, December 10, 2010 6:46:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TPR] Love This - Merry Christmas car guys!!!

Dear Dennis,

                     Now, that is not exactly the high horsepower and
lateral G force video I would expect from you,but  it does nostalgically
remind me of my rusty (but not near as rusty as the chevy) 1972 Olds Delta
88.    Sigh.    What pre Pantera shenanigans I had with that car.    I am
told that it went to car heaven (or the salvage yard) in Wichita, Kansas.
What memories, but I like the Panteras much better.

                                  Rust never sleeps,  Chuck Engles

From: tpr-bounces at teampanteraracing.com
[mailto:tpr-bounces at teampanteraracing.com] On Behalf Of Mad Dog Antenucci
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:59 PM
To: DET PH Antenucci, Dominic J LT NLSO PAC; Dolan Antenucci; Jonathan
Demers; john.demers at hotmail.com; Isabella Antenucci; maryte57 at ymsn.com;
falconsimage at msn.com; john bentley; eb20erik at yahoo.com; Peter Menyhart;
peter_beckham at agilent.com; chuck.brown at yahoo.com;
ddrenske at murraycompany.com; diiulio at ix.netcom.com; eweiler at lawa.org;
hoppe1 at cox.net; paulirish at earthlink.net; Samuel.Luzano at parsons.com;
TomKing123 at aol.com; Charles Engles; Eliot Kushner; Henry Amigable; Lyle
Kelsey; Mark Frank; Richard Lizama; Ronnie Artuz; tony DiGiovanna; Will
Kooiman
Cc: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Subject: [TPR] Love This - Merry Christmas car guys!!!

Guys, Mary Ann & Isabella,

If this YOU TUBE feature doesn't bring a tear of nostalgia to your eye
thinking back to when you were driving your fine rust colored automobiles in
the snow then I don't know what will....all guys who grew up in  Florida,
Saudi Arabia or California can delete NOW - everyone else will love this.
;-)>

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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Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 11:12:33 PM
Subject: Merry Christmas car guys!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IgzksUqpQ
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