<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>congrats Bob. Sounds like a great day!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>JB</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica,
Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <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> "rcbsons1@aol.com" <rcbsons1@aol.com>; "tpr@teampanteraracing.com" <tpr@teampanteraracing.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 11, 2013 3:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [TPR] OPTIMA CHALLENGE<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv1798467675"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size:
10pt;"><div><span>Bob,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.600000381469727px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>That is awsome report. Really proud of YOU. Thanks for report. Very impressive.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.600000381469727px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Sharing with the TPR guys as well.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.600000381469727px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.600000381469727px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica,
Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Dawg</span></div><div class="yiv1798467675yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, November 11, 2013 3:52 PM, "rcbsons1@aol.com" <rcbsons1@aol.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="yiv1798467675y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1798467675"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><font size="2">Just getting back to the real world today<br>
First I want to thank my buddy Rich for helping<br>
me out with loading the car, keeping track of my keys<br>
and helping with everything and hanging out. I also want to thank all the <br>
Pantera owners who came out to support me. We talked to a bunch <br>
of cool guys besides that loved the car.. best of all we did not break it!!!<br>
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Results... I am officially 28th out of 58 competitors<br>
If you are 20th or more in any part of the event you get ZERO.. lots of Zeros in the results<br>
Almost everyone scored 10 points for the cruise.. one broke<br>
a few must have taken a shortcut in cruising 5 miles one way<br>
down the Strip at 4pm on a Friday night and then 7 miles the other<br>
way.. then a short hop on the freeway to Shelby.. testing cooling..proving its a street car.. etc<br>
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I only scored in the stop box event taking 13th overall.. car was slightly<br>
bogging down from the turn around point even after lowering the fuel<br>
bowel and installing a crossover tube..<br>
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I had 8 cars score better than me in looks with no performance points<br>
In my book that moves me up to 20th overall.. not bad for a 40 year old car<br>
and many cars with from 800 to over 1000 hp<br>
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I made row three of the group photo behind all the vendors and 300k cars.... they took their time picking the order<br>
I had a photo shoot with Popular Hot Rodding after I finished<br>
I had the guy at the start of the Autocross told me he loved the sound of the car<br>
Goldberg talked to me to pump you up and gave me a thumbs up after my run<br>
They put cameras on the car several times.. inside and out<br>
When I pulled up to do the stop box they held me for a bit as the helicopter camera guy really wanted to shoot<br>
the car on my run...they waited and he a tech problem so no shot<br>
On the track run I had the Race car driver behind me in the photo car for two laps- 570hp 4 wheel drive Amg station wagon-fast,fast<br>
I met and talked to Herb Adams of VSE.. cool guy running his 40 year camero<br>
I burned the tires off the car but still had good launches in the autocross and stop box challenge<br>
I did spin the car in the autocross and did not fair too well but beat my mustang buddy by 4 seconds<br>
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One of the local autocrossers I have know since he was 16 won the overall event in his Dad's 65 vette<br>
Last year he lost by 1 point <br>
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Great times and when I thanked Jimi Day of Optima he told me everyone loved the Pantera<br>
It will be televised on Mavtv I believe in Februrary.. the Pantera will hopefully have some air time<br>
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They just annouced a new series leading up to the Challenge starting in March at Laguna.. it will be a new Mav tv series<br>
I will be there but more than likely with the Firebird knowing I got Zero points in the pretty catagory with the Pantera<br>
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I just died and went to heaven.. it was a great ride... best thing I have done in the car so far<br>
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Bob Benson still #3 black Pantera <br>
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