DeTomaso Mailing List: January 2001, Message #105

Sounds like a plan. . .I definately will be going again this year.....anyone
else interested in flying down to Texas???
Let me know.
Mad Dawg 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kirby Schrader [SMTP:schrader@ev1.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:12 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Another Texas Track Event (update #2)
> 
> 
> A even quicker re-update. Hotel number and covered garage if we get 
> in early enough.
> 
> We'll try to book the Manor House (which is usually where everyone 
> stays) in College Station (1-800-231-4100), but we need to know soon 
> to book a block of rooms.
> 
> 'The Driver's Edge' has a weekend booked (February 24-25) at Texas 
> World Speedway and John 'spinmeister' Taphorn is real eager to get 
> his freshly dyno tuned monster stroker back out on the track and try 
> to prove he's really got more ooomfff than I do... I guess I 
> shouldn't let him down, eh?  ;-
> 
> The organizers say they'll allow us to line up all the Panteras on 
> the front straight for pictures and they are excited that Panteras 
> are thinking about coming.
> 
> Also, free covered paddock for the Panteras if we can get a 
> reasonable size commitment early enough.
> 
> I figure the following might be game for joining in...
> John Taphorn   (who can claim he has 450HP and oodles of low-end torque
> now)
> Kirby Schrader (who'll try to keep John honest about it all...)
> Gray Gregory   (with two cars to choose from, he has to come!  ;-) )
> Tom Upton      (a chance to blow another engine before his next vintage
> race!)
> Steve Carvajal (long time, no hear! You still out there, Steve?)
> Dennis Coffman (said he'd come the next time!)
> Dennis Antenucci (always trying to find some excuse to come to Texas)
> Jack Tunnell   (got rid of the EFI yet, Jack?)
> Keith Verges   (if he's recovered from the 2nd annual TT)
> John Haas      (who we haven't seen in so long that he _has_ to come!)
> Don Franck     (Kinda' like Haas... can't hardly remember the last
> time...)
> Fred Hall      (first person to say he'll be there officially!)
> Chuck Engles   (we need to see you finish both days, Chuck! ;-)  )
> David Bell     (with new engine and superbly honed driving skills from
> last
>                   time!)
> Bob Howard     (from Wichita. I'll try to contact him. Some of you met him
> at
>                  the Motorsports Ranch last October)
> 
> Anymore Dallas/Ft. Worth guys?
> Tom Groves
> Scott Black
> 
> And this is a good motivator for those guys in Austin...
> Bill Bitner    (with his monster Windsor)
> Richard Greenblum (with his new brakes????)
> Rob McMullen   (with the other monster Windsor we've never seen on the
> track)
> William King   (those Webers _must_ be tuned to perfection by now!)
> 
> Dylan Schrader (missed last time at the Ranch with a bad clutch in his
> Cobra)
> Dennis Quella  (maybe, I have to call him and see)
> Rob West       (who's been driving his newly restored Pantera some time
> now)
> Alan Brown     (we just might get him and his Cobra out this time)
> Jim Narum      (the newly elected Space City Panteras President)
> David Auer     (we haven't seen him in ages...)
> Cliff Brookshire (new Pantera owner from near Beaumont who will be
> attending
>                  with family but without car. He's still putting it
> together!)
> 
> How many out there are interested?
> 
> Rumor has it that I was elected this year's Space City Panteras' VP,
> so I'm supposed to be the event coordinator. I'd better get off my
> butt and organize something! And if I can't get my car ready in time,
> maybe I can convince the
> GT5S owner to let me break it in good for him!!!  :-))))
> 
> Cost for the weekend is $275 with the price going up to $300 after
> January 27th.
> 
> Get back to me soon! More info on request!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kirby
> 
>