[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 14:02:29 PST 2011 

I was too busy chanting,

 "Mad Dawg only survivor" over and over again! ;-)>
 
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; Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, January 7, 2011 1:54:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TPR] HONEY I'M HOME - Re: 2011 Open Road Race Season opening... 
time to start prep


just to be clear, what I told you before going through the hole was "Don't 
scream unless I scream". :)

Welcome back home DaWg.

JB



--- On Fri, 1/7/11, Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com> wrote:


>From: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [TPR] HONEY I'M HOME - Re: 2011 Open Road Race Season opening... time 
>to start prep
>To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
>Date: Friday, January 7, 2011, 1:35 PM
>
>
>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
>>******************************
>>http://www.racingagainstautism.com
>>http://www.teampanteraracing.com
>>
>>
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