Tony Panterra made a name for himself as an actor and producer. He didn’t start racing until he was well into his forties. He began riding motocross when he was 29 years old. In the summer of 1995, he raced for the first time at the LACR circuit in Southern California. It was part of their Dunestown trilogy. He was an offroad rider in the desert and mountains before that. Furthermore, he had grown up riding but had never competed in a closed-course sanctioned race like motocross until 1995.