[Pantera]

Vern,

Gawd it has been so many years ago now. For some reason I can still remember a maroon/white top ragtop that could almost pull the wheels off running with a mysterymotor? Dam it why didn't I have the money back then to buy a decent camera and document those moments. Cushing was a old airforce runway and not a huge event.

I sure will be glad when someone comes up with a device that can reproduce a photo I have in my mind of some of the cars that I watched run back then. Damm pissed off that I didn't take pictures back then.

I could be wrong about the driver of the convertable. The Texas guys seldom came up this way because they had so much better facilitys to race on down close to home.

I think I will contact the widow of the guy I was with that had the red 63 bisketcan 409. She bought a Twin turbo Calaway 85 vette after he died with the insurance money and I will never forget her calling me to come drive it because she could not get it to run under 300 deg. I told her the gauges must be messed up because it would blow the head gaskets at that temp if you drove he for long.

So she asked me to come over and drive it for her and give her my opinion. Dam straight I would love to come drive your red Calloway Vette.... BEEEeeeeee Rightttttt There.......!!!!!!

Well she was right..! It would get up to 300 deg.
I left her house with her in the pass seat and it ran dam fast and didn't run too hot for me. She said take out on this back road and run it a little harder up to 4th gear. Well I did and the damm thing was a rocket ship I want to tell you. It felt like my 70 motion when it got un into 3 and 4 th gears.

When you did crank it up it started to get up around 250deg. and I told her that would be ok it would cool back down just driving slower. I asked her how she got it to be so hot and she said you are not running it hard enought!! I asked her how she ran it then and she replied she would take it up to 120 two or three times in a row just as fast as she got up there she would stop and turn around and go back the other was just as fast as she could and she just couldn't figure out why the dam thing would run so "HOT".. ????