[TPR] HONEY I'M HOME - Re: 2011 Open Road Race Season opening... time to start prep
Mad Dog Antenucci
teampantera at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 7 13:35:22 PST 2011
I'm back and I am MAD as hell and I plan to piss on some Corvette tires when I
get to Ely in May.
AJ - I second JB's comments - thanks homey.
You let the slackers know on the De Tomaso List I have more money then I know
what to do with and I may sponsor anyone who can go faster then me on the road
course with a street licensed Pantera. ;-]>
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The rest of this is for TPR members only...
JB and I are gonna fly later this month or early next month over the Sierra's
to Ely to check out man caves for sale.
My deal in Portland is dead. Gonna work for next 6 weeks here. The bank
approved our loan application but the final underwriter review killed the
deal.....
First it was they wanted 6 months cash reserve for EACH property and we met that
okay......then they wanted employment verification and additional updated
statements and they got that as well and the president of the company I work
for called them himself to support my loan....but in the end the underwriter and
a second underwriter said they were not comfortable (whatever the hell that
means) with my contract employment. Maybe we will have better luck in Ely then
we did the last two times we tried to buy there....I hear property values have
dropped. And I am pretty sure I would be happier in a second home where I can
regularly drive 5 minutes to the start line instead of 11-12 hours from the west
coast.
There is an interesting story you guys will think is something I made up but its
too gawd dam real not to be true. And here is the story on the 2nd house we
tried to buy. Oh yea the first house JB and I tried to buy the old lady who
owned it turned down our offer about 5 years ago.
And this last time, JB flew up with Chuck "Bulldog" Brown to Ely as JB was once
again running one of the course planes for Silver State which he has done
several times in the past while he was still working on his gay Pantera Kirk
firewall or some other bogus excuse. ;-]>
At any rate we looked at a 4-bedroom house 2 years ago that had a detached 3
car garage with a SHOP that included an 85 year old 10 ton hoist and a finished
meat locker in the basement of the house. There are allot of deer and elk
hunters in Ely and the previous owners were avid hunters before they died. All
the walls of the shop and garage were covered with trophy
antlers.....Unfortunately for us the sale turned out to be a cat fight between
the relatives of the couple who died in the house and here's how they died.....
The husband took his wife down stairs to the meat locker and blew her brains
out.......then he blew his brains out. In a last will the wife left her guns to
her boyfriend....yea go figure.
The meat locker had stainless steel walls and the finished and sealed concrete
floor of the meat locker were in perfect condition...Yea there were meat hooks
and a overhead hoist.
However when we walked outside again JB (only a cop would think of this) pointed
to 3-4 places in the back yard that seemed much greener then the rest of the
yard....yea shaped like maybe there were bruied bodies......you might have one
septic tank but not 3-4.....So I looked at JB (Cool-hand-luke) and I said,
"Are you okay with how this looks?"
JB looked at me with a straight cop face and said something like,
"Yea I am okay...are YOU okay?"
"I said okay with what?" ;-]>
JB laughed again and said, "we're gonna have to get a backhoe and dig up the
back yard eventually....but it can wait until after we buy the place <more
laughs>...besides we will be spending all our time in the shop and garage"
The rest of the story is boring but bottom line is we didn't get the place. So
now we're gonna go back and try again.
P.S. The last time we flew over the Sierra's we ran into a storm.....JB said,
"You see that little hole between those clouds in the thunder storm ahead of
us?"
I said, "yea, I see it, why?"
JB says, "well we have to fly through that hole before it closes or we gotta
divert our flight....blah-blah"
With credit to JB's very competent and cool piloting skills and my rosary
beads, cross, and Latin prayers we got through the storm okay in between JB
telling me to "SHUT THE FOKK UP".....
OKAY, the last part I made up but interestingly enough the rest of this story is
the truth.
So it always comes down to this....Just think how nice it would be to drive or
tow your Pantera or your Ford GT40 up to Ely and park it and you can drink beer
and play with your ride in the garage. No more parking lot repairs.
PS....But, if its a Corvette your gonna have to park it across the street and
JB and I have allot of friends with Corvettes but I gotta say you still gotta
park across the street.....unless you show up with party favors and you know
what I am talkin bout!
18 hours of flight time yesterday and I need to brew another pot of coffee.
"If you're not on the edge you're taking up space"
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: John Bentley <gndplne at yahoo.com>
To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com; Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>
Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 9:19:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TPR] 2011 Open Road Race Season opening... time to start prep
Asa,
I'm proud of you man! :) You are starting to sound like a racer! Let us know
what we can do to get you to an ORR this year. If you're there, I'm there.
My car is currently back up on jacks trying to figure out how to get my Kirk E
firewall kit installed. :] Damn alternator bracket..........hahahaha
JB
--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com> wrote:
>From: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>
>Subject: [TPR] 2011 Open Road Race Season opening... time to start prep
>To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
>Date: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 8:57 PM
>
>
>Who has a fast car ready for ORR this year? Pantera, GT-40, Miata,
>P-p-p-p-p-Porsche...., um... Corvette?
>Who -will- have a fast car ready for ORR this year?
>
>It's time to start thinking. The first ORR is coming up in April, the
>Big Bend Open Road Race. Are you ready?
>
>Get out your checklists. Two weeks before the race is not the time to
>start thinking about new tires or whether you should change the clutch.
>Strike while the iron is cool in this case, as in winter time
>hibernation in the garage when you're not driving the car. Quit laying
>in the easy chair watching Oprah with the winter sun shining through the
>window. Take an overdose of Vitamin D and hit the garage, you'll feel
>so much better in the morning.
>
>Don't make me let the Dawg out of his cage.
>
>So What's on your checklists?*
>What do you do to prepare for a race day?*
>What do you do immediately after a race day?*
>
>Let the bench racing begin.
>Asa Jay
>
>*Note, anything you post pertinent to race car and driver prep may be
>copied and used on the Team Pantera Racing web site to help educate and
>encourage others to engage in safe practices.
>
>Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
>& Shelley Marie
>Spokane, WA
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