This feature represents one of the most unique cars that competed in the 2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. We appreciate Bob sharing his car and story with us here on Lateral-G.
I want thank Skip,Jody and Sieg
for the great feature and fantastic pictures
I have been wanting to do Sema and the Optima
Challenge for many years. It was an Honor to run with
all the great competators and meet a bunch of the Lateral-g
forum in person. I have lurked on the forum for years
On top of that my car was featured in the event.
My Pantera is always driven and as hard as I can
It is very dependable and not a trailer queen
The best part is meeting all the great car people
Its unbelievable the caliber of the cars and drivers
The older I get the faster I was.... Read that on a guys
shirt in Famosa a few years back. Great to see guys like
Brian and Danny driving the wheels off the cars
I even got to spend time with a legend Herb Adams
telling me about his proposals to DeLorean. Good times
My Pantera family also were a great support and I was
glad to show these cars can still run hard. 12th in the stop
box was not bad in this group.
See you guys at Laguna in March hopefully with
my 500 inch 70 TA clone
I am hoping to go to Laguna, Fontana and maybe
Portland for all the west coast events.. might mix
the cars up depending on how the Firebird is running
and how it does on the Track.. It has aways been an
Autocross car... it needs to go on a Diet to shed some
of its weight for the track.. time will tell