<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Guys,</div><div>My big fat thumb hit send key before I finished thanking not only those who ran a Pantera at an ORR this year but I think equally important are our friends who supported us by joining our team, helping us get ready or providing their support before, during or after the ORR's in Nevada and Nebraska. </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Again, thanks to all of you.</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mad Dog Antenucci
<teampantera@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera@yahoo.com>; bob Radefeld <bob@radefeld.com>; John Bentley <gndplne@yahoo.com>; David Adin <DavidAdin@mercydurango.org>; Steve Hawkins <shawkins777@comcast.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "Miketrusty@msn.com" <Miketrusty@msn.com>; "falconsimage@msn.com" <falconsimage@msn.com>; Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com>; Frank Cirrincione <dagored72@att.net>; "eb20erik@yahoo.com" <eb20erik@yahoo.com>; Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader@gmail.com>; Charles Engles <cengles@cox.net>; "hoppe1@cox.net" <hoppe1@cox.net>; Robert Benson <bob@rcbensonsons.com>; " tpr@teampanteraracing.com" <tpr@teampanteraracing.com>; eldon hower <e_hower@yahoo.com>; "ddrenske@murraycompany.com" <ddrenske@murraycompany.com>; mad dawg
<teampantera@yahoo.com>; Peter Menyhart <pmenyhart@msn.com>; Steven Donegan <donegan@donegan.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 27, 2012 1:21 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> TPR AWARDS 2012<br> </font> </div> <br>
<meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv400533361"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div><span>Hey Guys,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Thanks to all 11+me ;-)> for voting....Here's the winners for each of the the nominations:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family:
arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; "><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;">1.</span><span class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(255, 0, 0);">ASA JAY LAUGHTON</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"> for Ellis Woumnm Iron Man Award</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; "><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);">2.</span><span
class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-style:normal;white-space:pre;"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style:italic;">RICH HOPPE & BUD HOWER</span> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);">for Gary Hall Memorial Award (TIE!!!)</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);">3.</span><span class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-style:normal;white-space:pre;"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><span
style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(255, 0, 0);">BOB "ROWDY" Radefeld</span><span style="color:rgb(0,
0, 191);"> for SOBILL SERVICE AWARD</span></span></span><span class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre;"> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span style="background-color:transparent;">4.</span><span class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">JOHN "JB" BENTLEY for Hardluck Award. </span><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 191); "><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="color:rgb(64, 127, 0);"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">NOTE: </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;"> We had tie votes for the "<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Gary Hall Memorial Award</span>".... so both "Rich" and "Bud" will both be awarded this award this year. Also we did not have any nominations outside of TPR for the SOBill Service Award but we did have nominations and seconded nominations for both Rowdy and JB. Rowdy got the most votes so it
goes to Rowdy.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I'll probably get these awards made up and mailed to each of you within the next few weeks.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Thanks again for either running </div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mad
Dog Antenucci <teampantera@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> bob Radefeld <bob@radefeld.com>; John Bentley <gndplne@yahoo.com>; David Adin <DavidAdin@mercydurango.org>; Steve Hawkins <shawkins777@comcast.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> "Miketrusty@msn.com" <Miketrusty@msn.com>; "falconsimage@msn.com" <falconsimage@msn.com>; Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com>; Frank Cirrincione <dagored72@att.net>; "eb20erik@yahoo.com" <eb20erik@yahoo.com>; Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader@gmail.com>; Charles Engles <cengles@cox.net>; "hoppe1@cox.net" <hoppe1@cox.net>; Robert Benson <bob@rcbensonsons.com>; " tpr@teampanteraracing.com" <tpr@teampanteraracing.com>; eldon hower <e_hower@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:24 AM<br> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] TPR NOMINATIONS<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv400533361"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div>All right slackers.....some of you haven't voted but most of you know who you are since you weren't at either the BORR, SORC or SS this year...doesn't mean you can't vote (Mitt) so vote(Mitt) and vote (Mitt) early...okay never let it be said I would suggest how any of you VOTE....you can't have a socialist or facist society if we don't stuff ballet boxes with votes. So today I will only single out ONE of you....that slacker is RICHIE! Ohhhhhhhhhh, Richie didn't vote?</div><div>Say noooo way man!</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Dawg headed to Johannesburg & Pretoria in October (save me Lordy). Thats
somewhere east of St Louis and South of Compton </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mad Dog Antenucci <teampantera@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Teampantera <teampantera@yahoo.com>; bob Radefeld <bob@radefeld.com>; John Bentley <gndplne@yahoo.com>; David Adin <DavidAdin@mercydurango.org>; Steve Hawkins <shawkins777@comcast.net> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com>; " tpr@teampanteraracing.com" <tpr@teampanteraracing.com>; Robert Benson <bob@rcbensonsons.com>; "eb20erik@yahoo.com" <eb20erik@yahoo.com>; "falconsimage@msn.com"
<falconsimage@msn.com>; "hoppe1@cox.net" <hoppe1@cox.net>; eldon hower <e_hower@yahoo.com>; Frank
Cirrincione <dagored72@att.net>; Charles Engles <cengles@cox.net>; Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader@gmail.com>; "Miketrusty@msn.com" <Miketrusty@msn.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 23, 2012 3:26 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> TPR NOMINATIONS<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv400533361"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div id="yiv400533361"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; "><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454">Hi Guys,</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica,
sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">We successfully completed another year of open road racing. Starting and finishing two Pantera's at the Sand Hills ORR and starting and finishing three at the Silver State. Far as I know no other vintage team ever fielded more old cars and old drivers <grin> then we have so ou all can hold your heads high.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.399999618530273px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234124"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">I have nominations and seconds for each of the 3
awards so here they are...Unfortunately I have not talked or got feedback from all of you so keeping this transparent as possible here it is. The award descriptions are explained in detail on the TPR site</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234157"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234162"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">1.<span class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"
id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234167"> </span>For the <span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;" id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234230">ELLIS WOUMNM</span> <span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;" id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234172">IRON MAN MEMORIAL AWARD -</span> We had two nominations (<span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Richie Hoppe</span> again (he won 10 years ago) in a new but old race pantera and AJ Laughton in his stock/driver pantera). You can only pick ONE driver or one driver & Navigator for this and they other awards. If we have a tie will award to both members.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234190"></div><div
id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Richie completely rebuilt his race Pantera which orginally raced with Round Table Pizza sponsorship. Richie did all the work himself, adding a new race engine, upgraded brakes, suspension, and welding/gusseting up
the entire monoque
chassis frame, totally rewiring the car, adding in a new race cockpit, etc. I wrote a little bit about his Pantera on 17 Sept - see below) and Richie successfully averaged 136 MPH in spite of NEVER having run 'this' race Pantera on the SS road or any ORR in 10 years and overcame many obstacles or challenges related to the usual issues of getting the Pantera ready to run at close to WOT. This Pantera and driver are pretty special. Its the first time since 1997 we have had a race prepared Pantera start and FINISH a ORR....I could be wrong but we can't count JB, my car or Bob
Benson's pantera's as they are all street modified Panteras.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234208"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">AJ also pulled his engine, ZF, and cooling system in the weeks prior to the SS. Had many challenges with receiving the wrong parts or in the case of the radiator 3 different radiator shipments before the supplier got it right successfully rebuilding his engine. I also wrote a little information about AJ on 17th but he did much more then what I am descriping now or described previously plus he drove from Spokane Washington down to Vegas to
pass the
Rookie/Qualification school, then drove from Vegas to Ely, ran the only Pantera in the Ely parade, and then
averaged 106 MPH on Sunday. And yes he was limited as a Rookie to a 110 Average. He then had to endure the teams hazing and a driver who 'never' saw him as she backed into his quarter panel in Ash Springs at a gas station after his successful orr run. Still rather then head home feeling pissed off , he drove the pantera 250 miles on to Vegas for the Awards Banquet and kept a positive attitude in spite of being tormented by the team most of the weekend. ;-) </div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234221"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">2.<span
class="yiv400533361Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;" id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234237"> </span>For the <span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;" id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234242">GARY HALL MEMORIAL AWARD </span>- We also have two nominations. Richie Hoppe and Bud Hower.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234255"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Besides Richie who is also nominated for the Iron Man Award, veteran <span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Bud Hower</span> who 2 years ago
in 2010
completed the SORC in April and then drove all the way from Kansas to run the SS, ran at something close to 100 MPH on 7 cylinders, then finished and then drove home and for the 3rd year in a row he once again started and finished the SORC in a stock driver's pantera. He also had his own list of
engine challenges to overcome this year before he could run at the sorc and he once again met and overcame the challenges to finish with Rowdy and averaged 90 Mph. As some of you know this is not an easy low speed run. The road course is a 2-way run like Texas and unlike the BORR or the SS/NORC offer very few shoulders to run off on. Those shoulders that are there are also all green and those green things are grass for you California and Texas boyz ;-)</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "
class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488">For the <span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">SOBill Award </span>we also had two nominations. One for <span style="text-decoration:underline;font-weight:bold;">Bob "Rowdy" Radefeld </span>and one for <span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">John "JB" Bentley.</span> As I think most of you know this is a fairly new award and the first year award went to Sweet Old Bill for all his efforts to catalog De Tomaso parts...the list is endless of what Bill has done and continues to do but you can read more about the award on the TPR web site. </div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454"
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">Rowdy</span> like I noted earlier successfully drove to, finished the SORC and then drove his Pantera home again at this year's SORC in Nebraska....He's previously won multiple TPR awards and has been the leading driving effort behind keeping veteran and NEW pantera owners coming back to the SORC. He is an amazing man. And if I am correct this is his 3rd or 4th year he has started and finished the SORC. Rowdy's 'can-do' attitude towards everything associated with the SORC and racing the pantera and reaching out to those Pantera owners who are in the midwest or back east is commendable. </div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><span style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;">JB</span> earns in addition to a nomination for the SOBill Award a "Hard Luck Award" for towing up to Ely only to find out the tires he bought 2 years ago were 6-8 years old...it was an additionally tough hit because the day before Tech he had to replace a alternatator and voltage regulator in the parking lot of the Hotel Nevada. But this is not why JB is being nominated. Nor was he nominated because he has finished over 12 years both the Silver State and NORC
orr's plus the now defunct Pony Express Road Race and he did this
multiple times or more times then I can remember on 10 toes. No the reason he was nominated is because year after year whether he was driving or NOT he still flew or drove to Ely nevada from California and was always the first person at home or in Ely before,during, or after the events to either help wrench to fix someone's Pantera or give up his trailer 'space' so someone who had broke could be towed 500 miles out of the way of his home in Santa Clara to take that man to L.A. (yea okay me! ;-). So when he hasn't been doing all of that he has either been a course worker or flown his Cessna 207 officially as the 'chase plane' to keep radio comms with race control and be able to report cars who had went off course or broke.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "
class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488">So there are the nominations. Let me know what you think. I'll try and add up the votes and will annouce in october before national general elections which aren't as important as this. ;-)</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488">Thanks to all of you and that includes our friends like Steve "Irish" Donegan, Peter "the German" Menyhard and Mark and Jim who are all veterans open road racers but did not bring Pantera's this year. Without the support of you guys and many others I don't think many of us would keep going back.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488">Dawg, who was nominated but no one seconded my nomination
(yea I nominated myself) so I don't wanna hear Rowdy remind everyone
how he THINKS he told me NOT to list him....yea sorry buddy this is not a democracy.</div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488">I am King! ;-))) </div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_15_134843736296488"><br></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454"
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normal; "><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_1348434072234131"></div><div id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223454" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "> </div><div><br id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223457"></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; " id="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223462" class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223460"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; " class="yiv400533361yui_3_2_0_18_134843407223467"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Teampantera <teampantera@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Teampantera <teampantera@yahoo.com>; bob Radefeld <bob@radefeld.com>; John
Bentley <gndplne@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</span></b> Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com>; " tpr@teampanteraracing.com" <tpr@teampanteraracing.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 17, 2012 12:39 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TPR] 2012 SSCC Update from the field<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br><br>Teampantera <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com">teampantera@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>>Both your comments nailed the challenge of running a 40 year old car against a field that is 99% new production or purpose build race cars...<br>><br>>I love them all but to continue running and be compeptive at open track and open road race events with a 40 year old car is a major challenge...all you guys know what I am talking about...even Frankie! ;-)<br>><br>>Secondly, a few things about the guys who ran Panteras at Silver State this year and in the past.<br>><br>>JB did and has continued to do much more then run his Pantera at 130-150 mph for years at SS....he has also helped me and many others fix, repair, tow, install, rewire, motivate,kick me or do what was needed to support the team...when he wasnt driving, he was navigating and when he wasnt
doing either he was flying the
'chase plane' tracking entrys progress and DNF's and accidents for the race organizers....then this year he brought up "Cafe Finito" for us to hang in all weekend... JB brought fresh smoked sockeye salmon, chili, stroganoff, beer, booze, water and girls....okay kidding about the girls but you get the idea of how much he unselfishly gives back to all.....and also gives back to our adopted TPR MEMBERS who joined us. What typifies JB is his service to our team and the community where he serves as a police officer and to which he always humbly says <br>>"There is no I in team"<br>><br>>Now X-Rookie Asa Jay blew us and me all away with his efforts and success...and yea you all know what an attention beotch I am...Once described as the best promoter in history second only to PT Barnum...okay yea, a legend in my own.mind ;-) but back to AJ who is now legend.<br>><br>>AJ R&R'd and rebuild his engine all the
while working full time and spending allot of energy and time with his son who I think all of you know also has Autism. Like Rowdy in 2009, Bud in 2010 and JB in 2011 AJ exemplfied everything that is above and beyound the call of duty and real 'leadership' to get to Ely, start and finish his Pantera and also do all the work himself....and drive all the way from Washington, run all most a 110 mph average on a 95F day with a basic stock Pantera is very commendable. And the the mature way he handled the woman nacking into his quarter panel at gas station was waaay beyound words.<br>><br>>I have run all the ORR's and of course the challenge at SS is how dependable is your engine and cooling system on a long uninterupted run in heat..while 110 average doesnt seem that fast it is the fastest a rookie is allowed to run...the fact that AJ's engine ran perfectly is again credit to his proven mechanical abilities and determination to get to the start
and finish lines... <br>><br>>Third, we had Rich Hoppe in his full race dry sump Pantera race car. This previously Round Table Pizza is now a thing of beauty. <br>><br>>When Rich started the engine in Ely at tech everyone ran over to his pantera to see WTH was going on...that 700+ hp engine was/is wild. Rich had to completly rebuild the engine, chassis and suspension himself....he did the suspension and he made many mods (too many to list here) that are unique and gutted and redid the.cockpit all then wiring and plumbing etc...but where previous owner had cut panels or lightened the pantera frame he did not change anything except to strenghen and completly reinforced/welded and gusseted up the frame...again I'd deacribe Rich and his race Pantera as a Iron Man. Richie was last at SS 10 years ago and he won the Tpr IRON MAN AWARD then.<br>><br>>Richie averaged all most 138 MPH in spite of KILLING the engine at the START
line (sorry Richie;-) and then after restarting the engine realising soon as he got through the gears and settled into WOT that he had not turned on his GPS and/or could not g.et it to work.... otherwisw he easily should of run 150-160 or more mph and no doubt will next year..this was his first orr in this Pantera so he has some chassis/suspension changes coming this winter. Still an amazing effort and it was great seeing himand his sheeit eating grin at finish line. His buddy Bill and he towed the Pantera from Phoenix and Bill was allot of fun.too..a Pinks 3rd round finalyst at Thunderbird raceway with many drag records to his credit.<br>><br>>Let me also thank our Bro's who came up and supported us...Peter-theGerman who came up and supported me and the team in every way on every day, running after parts when JB lost his regulator and alternator. Following me back to Vegas after the BOBO who drive my trailer down to finish line decided to RACE
the truck and trailer down to finish line...then when that guy driving my tow rig got on a hill he then made matters wors by 'ridding' the brakes instead of slowing down and down shifting so because he was a dumb ass he cooked the brakes onthe Titan. <br>><br>>Not sure who was the bigger dumb ass...him or me.Me for allowing someone I dont know to drive my rig or him for not following clear directions to go slow and pay attention.<br>><br>> But back to Peter - the German who is a retired master mechanic among many other skills who checked out my riga and got it and the driver cooled down and then followedme back safely to Vegas.<br>><br>>Then we had 3 non-pantera owning race friends who raised some eyebrows joining Team Pantera Racing and that was Brian Leary & Luanne Yoder in his Corvette Z06,<br>>Stan "Moonshine" Martin in his race Mustang who averaged 135 mph and George Suennen who averaged an amazing 170 mph in
his '90 Porsche 928S4 and Robert and Mary Armstrong in their cool 2011 Dodge Challenger...like Mark and Jim proved out in Nebraska with their well prepared Noble all our race friends are all great racers first and racers second.... And glad they were all there to be with us and hang together.<br>><br>>Couple closing notes....<br>>1. Jim Perutto is still King of the SilverState road...his fast 217? Mph record was untouched but in this run in his race prepared Malibu his windshield/supports broke at 200+ mph and he had do deflect broken glasss pieces that wrapped around steering wheel and blew out side windows...in spite of that "challenge" he still got the cup car safely stopped...yeeeea, insane! ;-)<br>><br>>2. Our friend John Tiemann once again ran his Ford GT to a 170 average humbly calling the run, just another Sunday drive! ;-)<br>><br>>3. As earlier mentioned our other great friend Charlie
Friend running his tube frame chassied Corvair from Hell averaged 180 mph! Amazing until you remember how many.times Charlie has done.this.again.and again...who once flew F100 fighter bombers in Nam...a retired USAF col. Charlie has to be 70+ years old and has run and raced every orr event fro here to Mexico.<br>><br>>4. Our buddy, Steve "Irish" Donegan FINALLY trophied at 2nd place in the sloooow 100 mph class in his 2011 Italian red Nissan 370Z.......;-)<br>>maybe now we will see him move up to a blistering fast 105...just kidding ya Irish..ya know I love ya.Bro.<br>><br>>5. FINALLY yea my run...I dropped back in class to a 135-165 GS division class group...thinking.it wise to slow down as I am blind, deaf and dumb....but once I got on the horse I was breaking out of my class within 2 minutes....by mile 45 I had caught up with and passed a slower Corvette on a.sweeper turn...soon as I saw him my foot buried the throttle into
the floor pan until I blew by him...not sure how fast I was going but I am sure it was at legal speeds (yeeea) but he heard me before he saw me qhich was cool because we talked at lenght at awards dinner...on my run he saw me early and quickly signaled me to pass which I gladly did at 200 mph or....so it seemed like ;-)))).............then just outside narrows/canyon road on a blind hill I caught up to 2nd corvette by by then I was averaging closer to 145mph instead of the 135 mph bracket I had signed up for... so finally I un-glued my boot to the throttle pedal and backed off on speed the last 25-30 miles finishing with a 140 average which was ironic as that was my original starting and winning speed back in '97. The Pantera again ran perfectly...oil temp was up a bit to +/- 200 probably due to a later start and hotter ambiant temps...and water stayed at a cool 180 but it took 10 minutes at WOT to get it from 150 to 180F...those rumble (tractor) strips
in center straights "at speed" apexing across then on sweepers and hills is still a pucker factor experience I did mot enjoy at all but overall it is a great road and we had perfect race conditions meaning no rain or head or cross winds.<br>><br>>THANKS to all of you including Rowdy and the Midwest and right coast racers for all your support this year. Soon as I get more feed back on award nominations I'll announce to all before I had into DARKEST Africa end of October...okay its notAustralia but it is dark. <br>><br>>LOVE YOU KNUCKLEHEADS<br>><br>>Mad DAWG looking for a job in America<br>>TEAM PANTERA RACING<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>>bob Radefeld <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:bob@radefeld.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:bob@radefeld.com">bob@radefeld.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>TPR mailing list<br>><a rel="nofollow"
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