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style="text-align:undefined;"><div></div><div>Okay My Peeps,</div><div><br></div><div>Beautiful 500+ mile drive in the Pantera down the H-395 back to Orange County yesterday. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A+ for the Open Bar ;-)></div><div><br></div><div>2.<span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A+ for all the non Pantera gay events (sailboating, kayaking, dancing, go-kart racing <?> etc) ;-(</div><div><br></div><div>3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A+ for the Oklahoma, Texas, San Diego and PCNC members who were all a hoot to hang with.</div><div><br></div><div>4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>F for the old and/or tired members who flunked enthusiasm and energy and did not drive a Pantera to the event</div><div><br></div><div>5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.</div><div><br></div><div>6.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>F for the cancelled race at Fernley - Something about NO insurance...Wotz up wit
dat???</div><div><br></div><div>7.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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 </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong><font color="#0000ff"><em>Mad Dawg Antenucci <br></em></font><font color="#ff0000">Team Pantera Racing</font></strong> </div> <div><em><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#007f7f">The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing </font><br></strong></em><font color="#0000ff"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teampanteraracing.com">www.teampanteraracing.com</a></font></div><div><br></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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