[TPR] Colorado Mile report

Fri Oct 2 06:35:42 PDT 2015

Bob,

Just shy of 145mph – 5000 rpm in 4th!

Car in photo is Dennis Quella’s tube frame car with a NASCAR motor.

Cheers,

From: Bob Radefeld [mailto:bob at radefeld.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 7:32 AM
To: David; TPR Forum
Subject: Re: [TPR] Colorado Mile report

David,

Looks like it would be a fun event! Whose car is that in the picture? Must have a built engine & higher gearing in the transaxle? BTW, you didn't mention what your car ran? Having lived in Colorado while @ Fort Carson when in the Army I definitely found out how higher altitude effects a cars' performance!! :o(( Thanks for sharing your adventure with us......................

Rowdy

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:04 AM, David via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:

Boys and girls:

Labor Day weekend found me at the Colorado Mile event east of Denver, hoping to have the fastest Pantera.  Sigh . . . 

Had a nice chat with Adam Quella and met some other interesting Ford folks – how about a 200mph Ford GT with no turbos?

Seems the altitude sucked a lot of power out of the normally aspirated folks?  My friend Carl ( http://www.carsbycarl.com/ ) came by to help me out, with Carl’s encouragement we got an extra 3mph out of the old yellow car.

Car shown below ran a 186+, which I believe is the fastest Pantera mile?  Only a couple of mph over Darrell’s best run at Mojave.

Rubber side down!

http://www.teampanteraracing.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem <http://www.teampanteraracing.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6856&g2_serialNumber=2> &g2_itemId=6856&g2_serialNumber=2

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