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| The Wednesday morning gang staged for departure. The
threatening skies delivered only occasional rain during the trip.
  
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| Panoramic shot of the parking area at the Orleans. I
count 68 panteras.
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| Panoramic shot of the beautiful Valley of Fire.
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| Another (better) of the Valley of Fire. Hey, wait a
minute, who's that guy posing with Becker's car?
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| Panoramic shot of the pit area at Spring Mountain
Motorsports Ranch
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| The hospitality suite puts the "Fun" in the Fun
Rally.    
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| Marshall gets all the girls
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| The early morning drive to Parhump was smooth and quiet,
until we had tire failure on Jeff's Pantera.
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| Jeff Goodall had a flat on the way to the track. In
typical Pantera spirit, while we were disabled on the side of the road,
many POCA members stop to offer help. Fortunately, one of them had a
spare campy that allowed Jeff to hobble in to the track. Then the
real trouble started. The lugnuts had been bottomed out onto the
studs and were un-moveable! After several hours, and again, no
shortage of help, the wheel was finally removed and Jeff's original was
patched and re-installed. We even had a generous offer by Bob Benson
to simply take his wheel and drive home with it (and ship it back to him).
    
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| Several SDP members ran their cars on the track in Group
"C"
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| The experts lend their ears to diagnose a strange noise
emanating from Glen's car.
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| Okay, I'm ready for my ride. Hey, isn't there a seat
belt back here?
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| Just chillin in the pits...
Phil Camp, Buzz Lehman, Klaus Schoener and Craig Campman: 
Ralph Suarez, Ron (curly) Ketchum, and Buzz: 
Craig Campman, Nick Camp, Phil Camp and Marshall Smith:  |
| Panteras on the track
    
    
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| A gentleman from "Trackday.net" was on hand taking
professional looking track photos. He got photos of most of the cars
on the track Friday. Click on the car of your choice to see a bunch
of shots of that car. There are plenty of photos of member's cars:
Phil Camp, Glen Chancellor, Klaus Schoener and Mike Becker.
http://www.extremestreet.com/trackday/2005%20Gallery/2005-04-29/
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| SDP member Sass received the President's choice award for
most original Pantera. A deserving honor for his GTS.
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| Llynne Reneker got the prized Panterasaurus t-shirt for her
son. The lucky raffle winner was easily won over by Llynne's charm
and he gave her this shirt that he had actually won!
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| The banquet was great
   
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| The soon-to-be-newlyweds, Craig and Gigi
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| This nose is about to take a drink?
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| Panteras in the Valley of Fire State Park:
Dave Briggs' CAV GT: 
Klaus Schoener's P: 
Mike Becker's P: 
Terry Himes' P: 
Oh yeah, and the park itself, (quite spectacular):
A group of tourists seemed to find cars more interesting than the
rocks!:
   
Elephant? That might be a bit of a stretch: 
Bill/Montse, Terry/Insuk and Mike Becker brave the badlands and take to
a marked 1.2 mile scenic hiking trail:
Mt. Everest here I come: 
If we push real hard, I think we can straighten out this wall: 
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