I work for NAPA (who also sponsors a Toyota ) and you may want to check to see who owns Coke now. IIRC it was bought by a Chinese company about 5 years ago (very quietly) Jim Blair, Lynnwood, WA '87 Comanche, '83 Jeep J10, '84 Jeep J10 From: Jock J JocewJ Jocewicz <namdra@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] I Need To Know If I Am Going Blind, Senile Or Just Loosing My Mind To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20090525.202821.412.0.NAMDRA@xxxxxxxx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I believe the Toyota was a hybrid, which is a first for a pace car. But I sure wish NASCAR racing was with American owned manufactures cars. On Mon, 25 May 2009 20:11:25 GMT "Mr. AMC" <amc74hornet@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Just now while watching the Now called Coke 600 (Previous the World > 600) in it's Monday rain delay I am positive I saw a Troyjota > Cameray as the pace car twice. If so I am deeply insulted as an > American Viet Nam era war veteran. Coke is an American icon and I am > sorry if I am not politically correct but even though made here > Troygota's are not an American CAR!!! You would think NASCAR would > show case a Mustang, Dodge Challenger or a Camaro as car from the > last 3 surviving American car builders as a pace car before they are > all lost on a holiday that American Veterans and heir lost brethren > are honored. You can flame me ban me but as an American this is my 2 > cents. I will E-Mail NASCAR with my displeasure and Dave Disphain's > show too. Sorry if I offended anybody. Opinions welcome. What's it > going to be a "Fix It Again Tony" (Fiat) as next years whatever pace > car? By the way I turned the race off. > "Doc" _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20090526/25c553a6/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com