Gordy's Stingers

[Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>]

Good one Gordy! But since nobody else is gonna get this, I'll have to 
explain:

Gordy and I -- urbane, civilized gentle-people that we are -- like to 
frequent the races at the local oval track. A place where "race" is 
somewhat of a misnomer, "extreme contact demolition derby" probably being 
more descriptive of the events we watch &:-). And some of them even 
involve school busses! Driven by "ladies"! &:-D

Anyway, last year they started a category called "Hornets", which was any 
4-cylinder car that cost less than $200, and was painted yellow. Thus, the 
Hornets Endurance race was a riot of about 50 cars -- Saabs, Mazdas (go 
figure, I dunno how a rotary qualifies), Civvies, Corollas, etc. -- all 
painted yellow, all cheap, traipsing about the infield and outfield, 
trying to do each other in, cutting corners, going over walls, running 
into each other, driving backwards, etc. (I'm not sure drivers need to 
have a driver's license?). Anyway, it was really quite exciting and I 
don't understand why this year they've limited competition to the asphalt 
oval alone. Another feature is that rules allow you to "buy" someone 
else's engine out from under them, for $200. This limits engine mods 
because people don't want to give away their engines.

So, Gordy has a Plan, and that is to outfit one of our local NWARC 
brethren (we're trying to nominate Thomas Moll, but he's been resisting) 
in an ALFETTA, paint it yellow, and enter it as a Hornet! Do I need to 
fill in the blanks here? There is not much likelihood these guys will 
even know what an Alfetta is. And boy could we get horsepower for $200! HA 
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA (the car itself is already free, 
usually, we'd have to ask Phil... &:-)). Wouldn't that be a scream? Then 
we could also raise money for laps -- like they do in the Racing For 
Children's Hospital gig at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Boy, we'd be able to 
rake in the winnings! 

So that's the humor behind the Stinger. Although I really would like to 
know what Stinger is... still....

Tess
in Seattle, shamelessly driving a Pork-chop (356) to work these days

From: GordonHyde@domain.elided
Subject: Stinger on Spiders

Tessie Mc writes: 
>  
>  Has anyone heard of a cleaning product called Stinger? What is it made of, 
>  and where on my car can I safely use it?

I can't answere either of the first two questions, but it sounds like it 
should only be used on the south end of a yellow Datsun B210 "Honey Bee" 
headed north.   8^)

k
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