THE SILVER STATE REPORT.....RE: [DeTomaso] silver states

Mad Dog Antenucci teampantera at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 19 13:12:21 EDT 2006 

Yo Colorado Dave,
    Speed Week over, coming up this or next month?
  the McLaren team were kick-ass great guys....they remembered your MeOutta too! ;-]
  md

adin at frontier.net wrote:
  Good show MD and JB!

I guess its "preaching to the choir" to repeat: Team Pantera kicks bootie!

That dark blue "McLaren" you saw: tube frame, body is 1st gen copy 
off a real MkVI coupe (6 made?) and runs, or did, a V6 Buick motor. I 
met him the day he made his 200mph run on the salt.

Pantera Power!!!



Quoting Mad Dog Antenucci :

> ALL!
>
> Thanks again JB for being there (again)...Seeing you, Chuck and 
> Larry made me feel pretty confident. Espially when my ignition fell 
> out (bwahahaha) on Saturday right after we got everything else done 
> to the car....still you were able to fix it!!!
>
> There's no "I" in team and even though there were only "2" 
> Panteras out of 130 entry's Team Pantera Racing still got picked as 
> the "BEST TURNED OUT TEAM"....There were 7 other official teams from 
> Corvette to Viper and I say official because we only had 2 
> Pantera's in Ely!!!!! But its a "People's Choice" award 
> thing...and the people of Ely have spoken!! ;-] Seriously, it was a 
> trip because a good 95% of the field were new or late model show 
> room stock Z06's, Vipers and GT40's. Several Ferrari's....many high 
> end exotics including a McClaren that had raced at Bonneville still 
> no one made 200 MPH Sunday.
>
> Okay, down to race day....26F Sunday morning at 6am, frost on the 
> cars....but it warmed to 56F by 8AM. I was the 4th car off the 
> grid...In front of me was a Viper, followed by two Corvette Z06's 
> and behind me were another Z06 and a race prepared Mustang 
> Cobra....also in my same class were 3 "GT-40's", a Ferrari F-40 
> driven by veteran driver Rick Doria, an Ultima GTR, another 6 or so 
> Corvettes and a couple more Vipers....a total of 26 entries in the 
> Grand Sport Division (150 class). Some heavy-HEAVY metal. Kinna 
> just felt right if you know what I mean. Quiet unassuming Pantera 
> and owner surrouned by high dollar machines!
> JUST WAY TOO COOL...
>
> So when the flag dropped I got a good tire smoking start fish 
> tailing away from the start line....at the quarter mile mark I was 
> clocked at 122mph and by the time I got to the first sweeper turn a 
> few hundred feet away I was nearing 150. While the weather 
> conditions were perfect for a high speed run there was a serious 
> 10-15 MPH "pucker-factor cross winds to contend with....I ran the 
> Pantera as JB said up to 170-175 for a while but settled back down 
> to 155-160 through the first 45 or so MILES because wind was pretty 
> wicked at high speed. There is a section of bad road with dips and 
> moguls that gets worse every year from mile 48 to just before the 
> Canyon road...I bottomed out once on one dip and a few miles later 
> did it again....tires screeching against the car wasn't a warm 
> fuzzy...JB pointed it out to me after the run so I was lucky I 
> didn't blow a tire on the dips.....so best I could do on Sunday was 
> a 148 MPH average.
>
> The start was delayed due to a late closure of a side road gate 
> and by 8:45 when they finally started cars down the course at one 
> minute intervals temps raised to 65 then 70F so weather was perfect 
> after 3 days of snow, ice and rain...By the time I got to the finish 
> line it was 75-80F...To the credit of Dick Drenske's NASCAR rad and 
> other mods I finished my run with a 180F oil temp and a 175 water 
> temp on the NASCAR rad which is the lowest operating temps I have 
> seen in 10 years. The engine was AWSOME....and ran 
> flawlessly....thank you Russ Fulps and thank you Dick Drenske for 
> setting up the Pantera. I also want to thank the Brazilian Girls 
> for the 55 gal drum of 110 Octane race gas! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!
>
> Later JB and Chuck came in with their Pantera to the finish line 
> to lots of applause and cheers....I think some of the Viper, Ferrari 
> and Z06 guys once again got a lesson in how "OLD SCHOOL 
> RULES".....JB and Chuck in spite of a fouled plug still averaged 133 
> MPH and I know the cross winds didn't help his run either but it 
> sure felt good to finish and then see JB's yellow Pantera coming 
> into the finish line.....
>
> RJ Gottlieb ran "Big Red" in Unlimited but the best he could do on 
> Sunday was only 168 although he has run a best of 192 average one 
> other time. The fastest car Sunday was driven by Mike Borders which 
> was a x-winston cup race car and it averaged like 187 mph which is 
> amazing considering cross winds on course...still a long way from 
> the record of 207 average over the 90 miles courseset back in 
> '2000....just not a good day to break records but a damn good day to 
> finish.
>
> There was no more then half a dozen cars out of those 130 as old 
> as our Pantera's out of the field of 130 cars and that didn't go 
> unnoticed at the Banquet and Awards Dinner Sunday night......... 
> neither did the fact that THREE late model Corvettes including one 
> new ZO6 DNF'd along the way. Corvette guys got nailed pretty hard at 
> the awards banquet Sunday night...to add insult to injury one new 
> ZO6's car alarm went off at Ash Springs while he was refueling 
> after the race and he couldn't shut it down for a full 5 minutes...I 
> finally walked over pulled out his key and clicked the alarm 
> OFF...dUMB ASS!
>
> I got to see some positive results to the aero and cooling mods on 
> the Pantera. In some photos I looked at the rubber bolt on side 
> skirts that Dick had added to the Pantera and they seemed to 
> definately help high speed stability....so did lowering the Pantera 
> except for the dips/moguls but that is another challenge for next 
> year...
>
> John Schneider (Dukes of Hazard) brought the General Lee (69 Hemi 
> Charger) and finished at something like 125 mph (hehe) and John, 
> RJ, Larry and I all shared a table together laughing and BS'ing at 
> the awards banquet which was cool. RJ said he was impressed with 
> our cars and our enthusiasm and Friday night we got to see an 
> advance film clip of John Schneiders new movie (McCormick & 
> Company) a movie about a guy who races what "looks-like" an old 
> beat up 69 Charger which really has a 511ci Hemi for rich guys pink 
> slips... so he has a garage of like 50 high end exotics he has won 
> in illegal street racing! But in the movie he stole MY FIRE idea 
> because one of the movie's tricks shows he has a gas butane burner 
> near his window grills that shoots flames up in the air to fool his 
> competitors into thinking his Dodge Charger is ON FIRE....soooooo 
> who do you think he got THAT idea from?!!!!!!!! ;-] Anyway, JB 
> liked the movie....think I fell asleep and everyone had a good time.
>
> Too much more to write about but for sure I will be back next 
> spring...gonna have to work on suspension travel to deal with those 
> road dips otherwise I couldn't be happier with the way the Pantera 
> handled and ran....THANKS TO JB, CHUCK, LARRY, AND ALL OF YOU FOR 
> PUTTING UP WITH MY BAD BOY ANTICS AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR 
> SUPPORT.
>
> GOOD TIMES!
>
> md
>
>
>
>
> "John Bentley (jab)" wrote:
> The good news is we both finished. I'm sure Dennis will be chiming in
> here with a full report. I think he made 170+ a couple times and came
> in under his target speed. I came in under also at 133 average instead
> of 135, but had a blast (as always). The new tires didn't feel good and
> I had fouled plug (I think). I need to pull them out and find out why I
> have a miss.
>
> The weather was great and we even had a nice snow shower on Friday
> night. Another great event. Team Pantera even got an award at the
> show.
>
> I'll get some pictures posted sometime this week.
>
> JB
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 5:52 PM
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> Subject: [DeTomaso] silver states
>
>
> How did the "DOG" do at the race? And the others?
>
> Tom
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