[TPR] Fw: TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY

Mon Jun 13 10:29:10 PDT 2011

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,
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>Beautiful 500+ mile drive in the Pantera down the H-395 back to Orange County 
>yesterday. 
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>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.
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>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.  
>
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>1.A+ for the Open Bar ;-)>
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>2.A+ for all the non Pantera gay events (sailboating, kayaking, dancing, go-kart 
>racing <?> etc) ;-(
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>3.A+ for the Oklahoma, Texas, San Diego and PCNC members who were all a hoot to 
>hang with.
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>4.F for the old and/or tired members who flunked enthusiasm and energy and did 
>not drive a Pantera to the event
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>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.
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>6.F for the cancelled race at Fernley - Something about NO insurance...Wotz up 
>wit  dat???
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>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  
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>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.
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>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. 
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>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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