<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>thanks Doc...I am hoping AJ saw this and posted to SSCC board as I can't from work. ;-(</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>And I can't from home either...something about they want me to pay my bill first </span></div><div class="yahoo_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 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:42 AM,
"cengles@cox.net" <cengles@cox.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Dear Dennis: Well done and well said, sir. I am sure that Steve would <br>be proud. Chuck Engles<br><br><br>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:<br><br>> Guys<br>> I sent this little 'rememberence' to AJ to post on SSCC Message Board.<br>> I know it doesn't have all the flowery "he was wonderful' comments but <br>> it was more about our personal relationship and how he convinced me to <br>> convince myself that open road racing was and still is about the <br>> coolest thing around.<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 8:32 AM, Mad Dog Antenucci <br>> <<a ymailto="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com" href="mailto:teampantera@yahoo.com">teampantera@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Buddy I need your help here....I can't get past our clients firewall <br>>
to post something on SSCC board in rememberance of Steve's passing.<br>><br>> I wanted to write something a little out of the ordinary but at the <br>> same time not write something disrespectful....as he was very good to <br>> us.,....<br>><br>> So if you can perhaps post this on Message Board as from our Fearless <br>> Leader I would appreciate it.<br>> Say I am overseas....haha....<br>><br>> SEE BELOW<br>> =================================<br>><br>> 25 or so years ago I was in Vegas for a post race drunken brawl (aka <br>> banquet) when this nice European quiet guy in a suit came up to me at <br>> the Pantera Owners convention in Vegas. <br>><br>> I thought maybe he was a waiter at first as he was so damn <br>> polite....so I asked him for another drink. And then when I realized I <br>> should not judge a book by its cover I immediately apologized when I <br>> realized he was
someone important....and that is he was a racer. <br>><br>> At the time I was kicking concrete for a living and sadly I still am <br>> and sadly I also thought I knew something about racing in circles at <br>> the time and this Steve-guy says he started a little open road race in <br>> Nevada on a real road and wanted to know if I would like to join his <br>> group of racers. <br>><br>> He talked a little about his own Pantera but I was more interested in <br>> talking about how fast I thought I was. (haha) All the time I am like <br>> a kid listening to the story about how cattle on a hill can stand <br>> upright. The more he talked the deeper I bought into this thing he <br>> did. He said he knew Junior Wilson, Charlie Puckett, and Pete <br>> Beckham, all of them early Pantera open road racers. <br>><br>> So of course I am on the hook. And then when I got to Ely five or so <br>>
years later with my own Pantera I already knew all about the SSCC <br>> events. Of course I knew I would be the fastest Pantera when I arrived <br>> and I knew I would win when I came to run at that first Nevada Open <br>> Road Challenge...and of course I was the fastest Pantera because <br>> Junior's Pantera crashed, and Steve's Pantera was broken, and Charlie <br>> and Pete had lame family or work excuses back in California....so yea <br>> I was the fastest driver in a Pantera on that day! Yea,. slow and <br>> steady wins the race every time. ;-)><br>><br>> And at that first Awards Banquet when I walked up on that stage to <br>> receive my 1st place trophy Steve looked at me like my Godfather. He <br>> said, "Dennis I am proud of you". Well yea of course you are proud of <br>> me Steve. But I quess now I know he was proud of me but little did I <br>> know that for the next 17 years I would
argue about everything that <br>> had to do with the SSCC events until he put Gail in charge of dealing <br>> with me. But those early years were me trying to convince Steve about <br>> who should sit on the SSCC Board or who should be running the events <br>> (again me)...... Steve always listened politly to me and never yelled <br>> back at me. Like a paternal father-figure he would remind me he <br>> understood what I was saying and that we would talk later when he had <br>> more time....and not to worry about anything....As worrying was <br>> Steve's job not mine and of course he was right.<br>><br>> Yea, I believed him. And I know many of you will miss him. I had a <br>> love-hate relationship with Steve. And I am sad now as my friend who I <br>> loved to hate is no longer around to fight with.<br>> He truely was a pioneer in our sport...and now I will shut up.<br>><br>> I never won an
argument.<br>><br>> Dennis Antenucci<br>> Team Pantera Racing<br>><br>> ------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TPR mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br>> <br>> <a href="http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank">http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TPR mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com" href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a><br><a href="http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com" target="_blank">http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div>
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