Reply to "Tip of the hat to the Boss Wrench"

Jack DeRyke,

I don't know if you understand it correctly. You ARE one of the ultimate Pantera Fanatics, right up there with Gary Hall, Steve Wilkinson, Dave Adler and the guys who were at the very 1st Pantera Guys meetings in San Pedro, CA, a long, long time ago, when I had a copy of the Camel Filters $10,000 Contest advertisement from PLAYBOY magazine taped on my bedroom wall @ at age 16 in 1973.

You've written a lot (no 100's is a H*** of a lot) of articles in POCA News Letters "Jack's Stands" and Pantera International as well, telling us how to get things done and giving us ideas and inspiration. Tireless, or a passion? BOTH!

You got your Engineering studies behind you, so that tells me that you labored over the same incomprehensible subjects as I did, including THERMODYNAMICS and DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Congratulations, those course failed out a lot of "wanna-be's" sorry to say for them. You worked hard and SUCCEEDED! You are an ICON in the Pantera World and I wish I could fill your shoes! I hope you inspire the younger generation to the same levels of success! THAT WILL BE A LEGACY! You deserve to feel PROUD, Mr. DeRyke! But don't quit now, I just got my Pantera, so if I ask a question that's been answered, please just point me in the direction where I can look it up. OK?

I'll hope to meet you some day and say thanks in person for the inspiration you've provided for so many of us, INCLUDING ME!

Thank you, Sir,

s/ Ron Norman