<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>Mark -</div><div><br></div><div>Forwarding Dennis Yogi comments and questions on participation and costs for your and others comments.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<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="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2"
face="Tahoma">----- Forwarded Message ----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Dennis Yogi <dhyogi@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, June 13, 2011 10:22:05 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: TPR REVIEWS 40TH ANNIVERSARY RENO FUN RALLY<br></font><br>Thanks for the honest review. Yup, its dying, if they keep it up and next year will be worse. I don't understand how the think that Reno can attract attendance more than Las Vegas! Once you start to lose attendance and participation, its an uphill battle to get them back. Do you know what the actual attendance number was? I suspect that they padded the number at least last year. As POCA keeps their focus on the older Pantera generaton, the numbers will continue to decrease.
There comes a point where they simply cannot make the long drive or be as active in events and many are reaching that time in their lives. If they don't court new, younger members, the number of active participants will continue to drop. I would safely guess that from monitoring the chat boards that we have lost many of our "younger" members with the bad economy. I've seen many sell off their cars to pay their mortgages and disappear from the Pantera Community. Us old farts have steady retirement income and are the ones that can survive and keep our cars. A lot of the younger guys simply don't have that luxury! But . . . there still are a lot of younger generation that do have the money . . . watch the tuner and drifting scene!<br>
<br>Aloha,<br><br>Dennis<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Mad Dog Antenucci <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com">teampantera@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;">
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<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 style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span>A+ for the Open Bar ;-)></div><div><br></div><div>2.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span>A+ for all the non Pantera gay events (sailboating, kayaking, dancing, go-kart racing <?> etc) ;-(</div>
<div><br></div><div>3.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </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 style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span>F for the cancelled race at Fernley - Something about NO insurance...Wotz up wit
dat???</div><div><br></div><div>7.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> </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>
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