1971 Firebird Build ("The Other Woman", a.k.a. Project "T.O.W.")

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Nice to see you really getting to enjoy this thing Bryan.

[Panteracer]

Bryan,
In the Team Pantera world you earned an Iron Man award
for all your efforts last weekend... great job staying after it
and doing as well as you did... I understand the effect all the
problems have on your driving and you did great

A little history:
Madawg our Team Pantera fearless leader was running one
of his first Silverstates (he has been running them for years)
and at over 160 plus was near the finish line and the car caught
on fire... he really wanted to finish and kept going blowing thru
the finish line but also had no brakes so could not stop for the
fire truck etc.... The car burned to the ground..(many utube videos
if you want to look) Car was towed to his house and then all
the donations from fellow Pantera owners and vendors started pouring
in.... the car was rebuilt and he still runs it today.. Will be at Willow
Springs in a couple of weeks...

PS he now has a fire suppression system in the car and it has
been on fire two times since... they call the car the Phoenix

Bob

[waynieZ]

Bryan nice job! I got a kick out of you at the end of the video. It sounds like you had a good time.
Interesting story Bob. That had to be a rush!!

[OLDFLM]

Originally Posted by Panteracer

A little history:
Madawg our Team Pantera fearless leader was running one
of his first Silverstates (he has been running them for years)
and at over 160 plus was near the finish line and the car caught
on fire... he really wanted to finish and kept going blowing thru
the finish line but also had no brakes so could not stop for the
fire truck etc.... The car burned to the ground..(many utube videos
if you want to look) Car was towed to his house and then all
the donations from fellow Pantera owners and vendors started pouring
in.... the car was rebuilt and he still runs it today.. Will be at Willow
Springs in a couple of weeks...

PS he now has a fire suppression system in the car and it has
been on fire two times since... they call the car the Phoenix

Bob

Holy Fireballs! Phoenix is right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fyqDIh2KIw

"This is one of the hottest Panteras around."

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by Panteracer

Bryan,
In the Team Pantera world you earned an Iron Man award
for all your efforts last weekend... great job staying after it
and doing as well as you did... I understand the effect all the
problems have on your driving and you did great

A little history:
Madawg our Team Pantera fearless leader was running one
of his first Silverstates (he has been running them for years)
and at over 160 plus was near the finish line and the car caught
on fire... he really wanted to finish and kept going blowing thru
the finish line but also had no brakes so could not stop for the
fire truck etc.... The car burned to the ground..(many utube videos
if you want to look) Car was towed to his house and then all
the donations from fellow Pantera owners and vendors started pouring
in.... the car was rebuilt and he still runs it today.. Will be at Willow
Springs in a couple of weeks...

PS he now has a fire suppression system in the car and it has
been on fire two times since... they call the car the Phoenix

Bob

Wow... Thankfully my problems weren't nearly that bad! Even though it was a small issue, it's really got me thinking about what I'm doing with the car and, more importantly, what I plan to continue to do with the car. My goal has never been to turn this into a full-on racecar, but at the same time, I want to enjoy the various events which I do, AND feel safe doing them. It's easy to be blissfully ignorant until you've had an actual problem...

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Bryan nice job! I got a kick out of you at the end of the video. It sounds like you had a good time.

Absolutely! And yes, I was a little excited at the end of that run. My first 55.x second run was about the same.

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by OLDFLM

Holy Fireballs! Phoenix is right!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fyqDIh2KIw

"This is one of the hottest Panteras around."

Painful to watch... :\

[chichirone]

Great video of your run Bryan. Your enthusiasm and excitement is contagious. Makes me want to go out and run an auto-x right NOW!

Th course set up was much different than previous years as well. Looked and sounded like a good time.

[waynieZ]

That video was painful to watch. I'm glad you had nothing like that happen.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Great post Bryan

Sound like you're closing in on the car's sweet spot.

Regarding another extinguisher.......this is what you can end up with when your only extinguisher is depleted:

Rural road, late in the day......without the incredible luck of a couple passer byes, one with extra towels willing to jump in and assist smothering flames, and another with a flat of bottled water who was saturating out towels......I was literally within seconds of have to sit and watch the car burn out.

Get the other extinguisher.

Sorry for bringing this back but an extinguisher is there to be use to give you enough time to get out of the car, not to put a car fire out. If you want to save the car you will need a 2 fire bottle system with 6 nozzles, as much steel fuel lines as you can stand, kevlar hose if you need flex, fuel and power shut off. Sure, you may get lucky with the extingisher but when it comes to fire lucky isn't a factor.

Relying on track fire support you don't always burn close to the fire crew. they have to see the problem, load up and get to you. When Dale Jr burnt up at Sonoma it took fire trucks 4 mins to get to him. Thankfully the corner workers were there to pull him to safety. Always plan for the worst.