<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Dave,</div><div>Loved how well you described the road trip. </div><div><br></div><div>Gives me more inspiration to get my pantera back on the road.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing with us.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jul 18, 2015, at 8:35 PM, David via TPR <<a href="mailto:tpr@teampanteraracing.com">tpr@teampanteraracing.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">The drive from Durango to the POCA Texas track days is a 2 day trip, I left after a storm had gone through town and caught up to it the first night on the road. When I got to Texas every other curve in the road had a “Watch for standing water” sign = Texas has a drainage issue!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Made the Friday night car show – great fun seeing all the nice cars (mine is not).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Saturday track day was hot, but I managed to cope. Lots of class time with a good instructor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Sunday track day was raining – most skipped the first sessions hoping the rain would let up as the visibility was horrendous – why go out and crunch up a car? Finally got out for a couple of sessions in the wet and learned some interesting things about the track and the Pantera. OK, so I wasn’t real fast out there . . .but they didn’t have to send a tow truck 50 years out in the mud to unstick me! Bwahahahahaha Great road course!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Sunday night was the big dinner at Gray’s ranch – 200 or more folks! Had a short chat with Tom Tjaarda . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Good to see some old friends and some really nice Panteras.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Two day drive home – had about 50 miles of real hot car which scared the crap out of me. Never boiled over or steamed just running hot. Next morning I could find nothing amiss so filled the tank and never had another issue. One tank of 22mpg – I was having too much fun putting my foot to the floor every chance I got. You know how it is . . . a chevy tries to pass on the freeway and you think to yourself – this will never do! Those chingaderos drive fast!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">A day after my return Texas was seriously under water.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Pretty good fun, but not as good as an open road event!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">David in Durango<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>TPR mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:TPR@teampanteraracing.com">TPR@teampanteraracing.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com">http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>