[TPR] TPR Digest, Vol 8, Issue 6
Jim Cozzolino
cozland at cox.net
Mon Jun 13 12:17:42 PDT 2011
I had plans on being there, but my Mom dies on June 4th, so it really ended
going to Reno for me this year.
As for 2012, if it's in Reno, I will not be there.
Too far to drive for me, 2 days up and 2 days back and $800.00 alone in gas
if I tow my trailer without any other expenses.
It's time to move the event back to Vegas or somewhere else otherwise
attendance will continue to drop.
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1. TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY (Mad Dog Antenucci)
2. Fw: TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY
(Mad Dog Antenucci)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:09:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
Subject: [TPR] TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY
To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Cc: Miketrusty at msn.com, art stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>, Dennis
Yogi <dhyogi at gmail.com>, ddrenske at murraycompany.com, Mark
McWhinney
<msm at portata.com>
Message-ID: <360635.28285.qm at web113305.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Okay My Peeps,
Beautiful 500+ mile drive in the Pantera down the H-395 back to Orange
County
yesterday.
Saw several Panteras on way home but none of them were broken which speaks
well
for the owners. Was pretty happy having TWO operating windows that went up
and
down since for weight saving purposes I have no heater or AC in the
Pantera....it is afterall a SoCal car now........seriously, thanks again Art
for
all your help before we left for Reno.
Hats off to Mark, JT and the POCA Board for putting on the event and for
Steve
Wilkinson (only vendor!) for supporting it but I gotta say the FUN RALLY
ain't
what it used to be and here's what I observed worked and didn't work.
1.A+ for the Open Bar ;-)>
2.A+ for all the non Pantera gay events (sailboating, kayaking, dancing,
go-kart
racing <?> etc) ;-(
3.A+ for the Oklahoma, Texas, San Diego and PCNC members who were all a hoot
to
hang with.
4.F for the old and/or tired members who flunked enthusiasm and energy and
did
not drive a Pantera to the event
5.F for the only 30 Panteras being driving to Reno (10-15 more were
towed)....total +/- 40 total!!! Only 3 came more then a 1,000 miles away.
6.F for the cancelled race at Fernley - Something about NO insurance...Wotz
up
wit dat???
7.F on Participation by POCA chapters in Southern California....exception
was
Bill Hohnhorst and the San Diego chapter gang.....there has to be 150+
Panteras
in LA and Orange County area and less then 10% attended or drove their
Panteras
to Reno. There should have been a minimum of 100 Pantera's driven from LA
and
Orange Counties....those chapter presidents should resign and hand their
keys to
their cars to John Bentley who will show up
In summary as good a job as Mark and the POCA Fun Rally team did in putting
the
event together I wonder what can be done to reverse the decline of
participation
and the waning enthusiasm (Graying of POCA) and enthusiasm as we still
have
plenty of members well into their 60's and 70's but most of them will be
DEAD in
a couple more years.
P.S. Mark I heard ya when you said numbers attending) were going up in
recent
years but obviously the Panteras are sitting in the garages for most owners
for
all the usual excuses (repairs, work/family, no income or job) and while I
appreciate that we still have 250 Panteras in 1991 in the last major
recession.
What happened and more importantly what can we do to reverse the aging
process....okay just kidding.
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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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:29:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
Subject: [TPR] Fw: TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY
To: Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com>, tpr at teampanteraracing.com
Message-ID: <761463.24332.qm at web113306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Mark -
Forwarding Dennis Yogi comments and questions on participation and costs for
your and others comments.
Thanks
Mad Dawg Antenucci
Team Pantera Racing
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing
www.teampanteraracing.com
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Dennis Yogi <dhyogi at gmail.com>
To: Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 10:22:05 AM
Subject: Re: TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY
Thanks for the honest review. Yup, its dying, if they keep it up and next
year
will be worse. I don't understand how the think that Reno can attract
attendance more than Las Vegas! Once you start to lose attendance and
participation, its an uphill battle to get them back. Do you know what the
actual attendance number was? I suspect that they padded the number at
least
last year. As POCA keeps their focus on the older Pantera generaton, the
numbers will continue to decrease. There comes a point where they simply
cannot
make the long drive or be as active in events and many are reaching that
time in
their lives. If they don't court new, younger members, the number of active
participants will continue to drop. I would safely guess that from
monitoring
the chat boards that we have lost many of our "younger" members with the bad
economy. I've seen many sell off their cars to pay their mortgages and
disappear from the Pantera Community. Us old farts have steady retirement
income and are the ones that can survive and keep our cars. A lot of the
younger guys simply don't have that luxury! But . . . there still are a lot
of
younger generation that do have the money . . . watch the tuner and drifting
scene!
Aloha,
Dennis
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Okay My Peeps,
>
>
>Beautiful 500+ mile drive in the Pantera down the H-395 back to Orange
County
>yesterday.
>
>
>Saw several Panteras on way home but none of them were broken which speaks
well
>for the owners. Was pretty happy having TWO operating windows that went up
and
>down since for weight saving purposes I have no heater or AC in the
>Pantera....it is afterall a SoCal car now........seriously, thanks again
Art for
>all your help before we left for Reno.
>
>
>Hats off to Mark, JT and the POCA Board for putting on the event and for
Steve
>Wilkinson (only vendor!) for supporting it but I gotta say the FUN RALLY
ain't
>what it used to be and here's what I observed worked and didn't work.
>
>
>1.A+ for the Open Bar ;-)>
>
>
>2.A+ for all the non Pantera gay events (sailboating, kayaking, dancing,
go-kart
>racing <?> etc) ;-(
>
>
>3.A+ for the Oklahoma, Texas, San Diego and PCNC members who were all a
hoot to
>hang with.
>
>
>4.F for the old and/or tired members who flunked enthusiasm and energy and
did
>not drive a Pantera to the event
>
>
>5.F for the only 30 Panteras being driving to Reno (10-15 more were
>towed)....total +/- 40 total!!! Only 3 came more then a 1,000 miles away.
>
>
>6.F for the cancelled race at Fernley - Something about NO insurance...Wotz
up
>wit dat???
>
>
>7.F on Participation by POCA chapters in Southern California....exception
was
>Bill Hohnhorst and the San Diego chapter gang.....there has to be 150+
Panteras
>in LA and Orange County area and less then 10% attended or drove their
Panteras
>to Reno. There should have been a minimum of 100 Pantera's driven from LA
and
>Orange Counties....those chapter presidents should resign and hand their
keys to
>their cars to John Bentley who will show up
>
>
>In summary as good a job as Mark and the POCA Fun Rally team did in putting
the
>event together I wonder what can be done to reverse the decline of
participation
>and the waning enthusiasm (Graying of POCA) and enthusiasm as we still
have
>plenty of members well into their 60's and 70's but most of them will be
DEAD in
>a couple more years.
>
>
>P.S. Mark I heard ya when you said numbers attending) were going up in
recent
>years but obviously the Panteras are sitting in the garages for most owners
for
>all the usual excuses (repairs, work/family, no income or job) and while I
>appreciate that we still have 250 Panteras in 1991 in the last major
recession.
>What happened and more importantly what can we do to reverse the aging
>process....okay just kidding.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>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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