[TPR] The other guy on Fire 🔥

[DENNIS ANTENUCCI]

Except the other 2 CD’s made their reps in a Pantera. CD 3 only crossed the finish line at 198 Mph 😂😂😂

MD

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> On Nov 18, 2019, at 12:46 AM, Laurie via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Holy smokes (literally)!!!  You definitely are CRAZY DAVE!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DENNIS ANTENUCCI via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
> To: tpr at teampanteraracing.com <tpr at teampanteraracing.com>
> Cc: Lee Pedersen <salemmotorsport at yahoo.com>; Dolan Antenucci <antenucci.d at gmail.com>; Gary Carmichael <ekcgwc at comcast.net>; David Carpenter <davecarp80138 at outlook.com>; Jeannetgru <jeannetgru at aol.com>
> Sent: Sun, Nov 17, 2019 12:51 pm
> Subject: [TPR] The other guy on Fire 🔥
> 
> Yo My Peeps,
> 
> Here is one more reason I don’t brag about crossing the finish line on fire. 
> 
> Some of of you know of him as Crazy Dave 3 (CD3) but most of you have never met him or even know of him except as a fellow ORR Veteran who ran Unlimited for many years. He’s been a friend for many years ever since he borrowed racer tape from me at Pre-grid which is another story😂
> 
> The story and photos below will give you some appreciation of just how crazy CD3 is or used to be when he was younger. 
> Dave is the real deal...a legend if you will.
> 
> As the saying goes a good friend will drink and fight for you but a better friend will go to jail with you.... and that is the kind of guy CD3 is. 
> 
> Yea trying to get him back to SORC, BBORR  OR SSCC. In either case the next time I am in Colorado I will be eating his food and drinking his beer because that is also what good friends share.
> 😉
> 
> Read below and enjoy.
> 
> Mad Dawg, who saw headers and other Pantera parts on fire. And I did it first CD3.
> 
> Begin forwarded from Dave
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>> OMG…..all these years……I NEVER put two & two together!!!
>> YOU & I……are likely the Only two in ORR…..to be on fire as we crossed the finish line!!!!!
>> YOURS was legendary!!!
>> BBORR 2008: I had an engine bay fire developing for last 20 miles….& the heat was right in front of me!!!!!  I even slowed to 170 for most of that…..to try ( in vain ) to keep the heat off & try to last!!!   It got soo hot it was bubbling paint off center of dash in front of me!!  Three gauges started to melt & droop out of their sockets!!   I normally ran 6 psi gas pressure.  Circuits were shorting out…..& I kept switching one fuel pump to another…..just to maintain 3 PSI!!  ( I had two systems)
>> I told Dan Stoltenberg to stop reading me course notes.  I wasn’t soo fast to really need them!!
>> “Keep telling me How Far to the finish line!!’
>> He asked why!!??
>> I said: “I have no idea when I might have to shut this car down…..& at this speed….I can make it coast 3 miles if I have too!!”
>> When he finally said we were four miles out, I decided to give it all she had!!  We crossed the finish line @ 196 mph!!  Engine was sounding awful…..but we made it!!!
>> I let off…..& within 50 yards it was sputtering & DEAD!!!   I shut everything down, put it in neutral, the fire….died with the engine!! 
>> I told Dan to start unbuckling while we were still above 150 mph!!  I knew with his handicapped hand he would take longer than me!!
>> We went past the police a little over 100 mph…….& We coasted ALL the way to Zero Stone Park……& pushed on the brakes to stop from 5 mph……right exactly at rear bumper of my trailer!!!!
>> Dan & I got out HOOTING & Hollering!!!!!!
>> We made it!!!
>> A few minutes later…..we found out Charlie had shut down mid course for an oil pressure problem!!
>>   When I got home we found out what happened!!  A header pipe had blown out right in front of my knees!!! ( fatigued after getting red hot soo many times.)  Those pipes wrapped behind the engine.  The hole was bigger than a football where heat was melting thru the first firewall….& was shorting out the wiring &  burning anything it could!!  When the engine failed all together…..the heat had gotten soo bad going thru the transmission tunnel…..it was melting all the wire insulation & burning!!   Final failure…..it melted thru the main starter cables behind the transmission & shorted out the battery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>  
>> For my efforts….I got this!!!
>> Would I do it again….HECK YES!!!
>> My day was NOT legendary like yours…..but similar to yours…..it was a moment to remember!!!
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>> Biden said: “ 8 years of Trump will alter the Nation!!”
>> THAT’s what we’re hoping for!!!
>>  
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