[TPR] Texas Trip update . . . .

[Teampantera]

I get that! I grew up driving in Seattle Area.

I bought  my Pantera in Seattle 35 years ago. It wasn't just raining...it was pouring. 

Couldn't see a damn thing. Had not heard about Rain X yet which is a god send for old cars with shitty wipers and a defroster.

I thought my XKE was bad and it was but no doubt the Pantera wasn't any better.

Most of it helped being 30-something drifting around corners thinking I was immortal LOL

Old Dawg



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> On Jul 19, 2015, at 1:11 PM, David via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
> 
> Couldn't see! Don't mind a wet track if I can see----
> 
> Sent from my handheld gizmo, please forgive my typing!
> 
> On Jul 19, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Steven Donegan <steve at donegan.org> wrote:
> 
> Why not drive your car on the track in the rain? Just drive slower???
>  
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> From: Teampantera via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
> To: David <adin at frontier.net> 
> Cc: "<tpr at teampanteraracing.com>" <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> 
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2015 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [TPR] Texas Trip update . . . .
> 
> Dave,
> Loved how well you described the road trip.  
> 
> Gives me more inspiration to get my pantera back on the road.
> 
> Thanks for sharing with us.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 18, 2015, at 8:35 PM, David via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
>> 
> 
> The drive from Durango to the POCA Texas track days is a 2 day trip, I left after a storm had gone through town and caught up to it the first night on the road.  When I got to Texas every other curve in the road had a “Watch for standing water” sign = Texas has a drainage issue!
>  
> Made the Friday night car show – great fun seeing all the nice cars (mine is not).
>  
> Saturday track day was hot, but I managed to cope.  Lots of class time with a good instructor.
>  
> Sunday track day was raining – most skipped the first sessions hoping the rain would let up as the visibility was horrendous – why go out and crunch up a car?  Finally got out for a couple of sessions in the wet and learned some interesting things about the track and the Pantera.  OK, so I wasn’t real fast out there . . .but they didn’t have to send a tow truck 50 years out in the mud to unstick me! Bwahahahahaha  Great road course!
>  
> Sunday night was the big dinner at Gray’s ranch – 200 or more folks!  Had a short chat with Tom Tjaarda . . .
>  
> Good to see some old friends and some really nice Panteras.
>  
> Two day drive home – had about 50 miles of real hot car which scared the crap out of me.  Never boiled over or steamed just running hot.  Next morning I could find nothing amiss so filled the tank and never had another issue. One tank of 22mpg – I was having too much fun putting my foot to the floor every chance I got.  You know how it is . . . a chevy tries to pass on the freeway and you think to yourself – this will never do! Those chingaderos drive fast!
>  
> A day after my return Texas was seriously under water.
>  
> Pretty good fun, but not as good as an open road event!
>  
> David in Durango
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