[TPR] HONEY I'M HOME - Re: 2011 Open Road Race Season opening... time to start prep

[Asa Jay Laughton]

I get dibs on the trailer if TPR ends up headquartering in Ely.

Sorry to hear about the deal in Portland, it was a nice looking place.

Asa Jay

Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>:

> 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. ;-]>
> =====================================================
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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