[SOC] BULLS*IT!!!!

[Rob Matherly]

Nascar was invented around bootlegging! :^)  The good 'ol boys haulin'
moonshine would soup up their cars to out run the police.  Then they'd all
get together and say "my car's faster than yours is".  Eventually they
started racing them against each other, then one of them invented a set of
rules and then bing bang boom you've got the most popular spectator sport
in the country!  (You won't ever see 175,000 people at a football,
baseball, or basketball game!)

The first races were actually cars off the show room floor that they just
tuned up.  Every thing had to be stock parts, that's where we get the name
"stock car".  It was actually common place for a driver to race the family
sedan and drive his family home in it afterwards!  The first non-stock part
approved was a plate to go on the left front tire (I think it was that
tire) to keep the lugnuts from pulling off the wheel.  Then seatbelts,
rollcages, and eventually it worked it's way up to $7,000 valve springs and
$75,000 engines.

72/73/oo
Rob, W�JRM
ARRL; FP Qrp -330; Live-Wire #442; IA QRP #143; SOC #497; QRPp-I #19

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----- Original Message -----
From: JMcAulay <john@mcaulay.net>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [SOC] BULLS*IT!!!!



On Sunday 14 April 2002 23:10, Rob Matherly wrote:

> If there was ethanol around, those guys would drink it before they put it
> in the tanks.

Hey, don't forget:  many of the early Nascar drivers had experience in
hauling loads of moonshine whiskey around the mountains in western North
Carolina and eastern Tennessee.  So if any ethanol could be found, they'd
probably try to hide it somewhere.

73
John WA6QPL  SOC 263
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