[TPR] Colorado Mile report

[Bob Radefeld]

You done good David, especially @ that altitude! :o)) I thought that looked
like Quella's car. Thanks.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:35 AM, David <adin at frontier.net> wrote:

> Bob,
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> Just shy of 145mph – 5000 rpm in 4th!
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> Car in photo is Dennis Quella’s tube frame car with a NASCAR motor.
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> Cheers,
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> *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
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> David,
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> 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......................
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> Rowdy
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> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:04 AM, David via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
> wrote:
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> Boys and girls:
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> Labor Day weekend found me at the Colorado Mile event east of Denver,
> hoping to have the fastest Pantera.  Sigh . . .
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> Had a nice chat with Adam Quella and met some other interesting Ford folks
> – how about a 200mph Ford GT with no turbos?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Rubber side down!
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> http://www.teampanteraracing.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6856&g2_serialNumber=2
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