<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Awsome AJ....thanks pal.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <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 face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:29 PM, Asa Jay Laughton <asajay@asajay.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4971700599"><div>
I saw this later in the day at work and was able to post it. :)<br clear="none">
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<pre class="yiv4971700599moz-signature">Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 2/25/2014 3:54 PM, Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
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<div><span>thanks Doc...I am hoping AJ saw this and posted to
SSCC board as I can't from work. ;-(</span></div>
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they want me to pay my bill first </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Tuesday,
February 25, 2014 10:42 AM, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv4971700599moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" ymailto="mailto:cengles@cox.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:cengles@cox.net">"cengles@cox.net"</a>
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<div class="yiv4971700599y_msg_container">Dear Dennis: Well done and
well said, sir. I am sure that Steve would <br clear="none">
be proud. Chuck Engles<br clear="none">
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Mad Dog Antenucci
wrote:<br clear="none">
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> Guys<br clear="none">
> I sent this little 'rememberence' to AJ to post on
SSCC Message Board.<br clear="none">
> I know it doesn't have all the flowery "he was
wonderful' comments but <br clear="none">
> it was more about our personal relationship and how
he convinced me to <br clear="none">
> convince myself that open road racing was and still
is about the <br clear="none">
> coolest thing around.<br clear="none">
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> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 8:32 AM, Mad Dog
Antenucci <br clear="none">
> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com">teampantera@yahoo.com</a>>
wrote:<br clear="none">
> Buddy I need your help here....I can't get past
our clients firewall <br clear="none">
> to post something on SSCC board in rememberance of
Steve's passing.<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> I wanted to write something a little out of the
ordinary but at the <br clear="none">
> same time not write something disrespectful....as
he was very good to <br clear="none">
> us.,....<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> So if you can perhaps post this on Message Board as
from our Fearless <br clear="none">
> Leader I would appreciate it.<br clear="none">
> Say I am overseas....haha....<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> SEE BELOW<br clear="none">
> =================================<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> 25 or so years ago I was in Vegas for a post race
drunken brawl (aka <br clear="none">
> banquet) when this nice European quiet guy in a
suit came up to me at <br clear="none">
> the Pantera Owners convention in Vegas. <br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> I thought maybe he was a waiter at first as he was
so damn <br clear="none">
> polite....so I asked him for another drink. And
then when I realized I <br clear="none">
> should not judge a book by its cover I immediately
apologized when I <br clear="none">
> realized he was someone important....and that is he
was a racer. <br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> At the time I was kicking concrete for a living and
sadly I still am <br clear="none">
> and sadly I also thought I knew something about
racing in circles at <br clear="none">
> the time and this Steve-guy says he started a
little open road race in <br clear="none">
> Nevada on a real road and wanted to know if I would
like to join his <br clear="none">
> group of racers. <br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> He talked a little about his own Pantera but I was
more interested in <br clear="none">
> talking about how fast I thought I was. (haha) All
the time I am like <br clear="none">
> a kid listening to the story about how cattle on a
hill can stand <br clear="none">
> upright. The more he talked the deeper I bought
into this thing he <br clear="none">
> did. He said he knew Junior Wilson, Charlie
Puckett, and Pete <br clear="none">
> Beckham, all of them early Pantera open road
racers. <br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> So of course I am on the hook. And then when I got
to Ely five or so <br clear="none">
> years later with my own Pantera I already knew all
about the SSCC <br clear="none">
> events. Of course I knew I would be the fastest
Pantera when I arrived <br clear="none">
> and I knew I would win when I came to run at that
first Nevada Open <br clear="none">
> Road Challenge...and of course I was the fastest
Pantera because <br clear="none">
> Junior's Pantera crashed, and Steve's Pantera was
broken, and Charlie <br clear="none">
> and Pete had lame family or work excuses back in
California....so yea <br clear="none">
> I was the fastest driver in a Pantera on that day!
Yea,. slow and <br clear="none">
> steady wins the race every time. ;-)><br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> And at that first Awards Banquet when I walked up
on that stage to <br clear="none">
> receive my 1st place trophy Steve looked at me like
my Godfather. He <br clear="none">
> said, "Dennis I am proud of you". Well yea of
course you are proud of <br clear="none">
> me Steve. But I quess now I know he was proud of
me but little did I <br clear="none">
> know that for the next 17 years I would argue about
everything that <br clear="none">
> had to do with the SSCC events until he put Gail in
charge of dealing <br clear="none">
> with me. But those early years were me trying to
convince Steve about <br clear="none">
> who should sit on the SSCC Board or who should be
running the events <br clear="none">
> (again me)...... Steve always listened politly to
me and never yelled <br clear="none">
> back at me. Like a paternal father-figure he would
remind me he <br clear="none">
> understood what I was saying and that we would talk
later when he had <br clear="none">
> more time....and not to worry about anything....As
worrying was <br clear="none">
> Steve's job not mine and of course he was right.<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> Yea, I believed him. And I know many of you will
miss him. I had a <br clear="none">
> love-hate relationship with Steve. And I am sad now
as my friend who I <br clear="none">
> loved to hate is no longer around to fight with.<br clear="none">
> He truely was a pioneer in our sport...and now I
will shut up.<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> I never won an argument.<br clear="none">
><br clear="none">
> Dennis Antenucci<br clear="none">
> Team Pantera Racing<br clear="none">
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