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Rick

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Date Posted: Friday, February 05, 08:14:22am

what was under the hood of that Chevy.
There seem to be no rules against this however... well sort of.... RPM ran a Dodge last season with a Ford engine in it for one race, prior to the race in which Elliott Sadler began running the Fords. But in that case, the car was clearly a Dodge and carried the Dodge logos. The engine was a legal Yates Ford engine.

When Larry, Al, David and I went to Bristol, during the Busch race David and I were wandering through the vendors area when we ran across a Toyota souvenier truck. It was a 5th wheel trailer, clearly marked with the TRD logos, but the truck hauling it was not a Toyota. It had the stock grill removed and one of those cool chrome chainlink grills installed with no logo. The tailgate was also missing. The fender logos were gone as well. But there was no question the truck was a GMC with dual wheels.

I have a photo someplace. I asked around when I got home and everyone was of the same idea: it was cheaper (despite embarassment) for Toyota to use an off-ther-rack GMC than to produce a single dual wheel truck for the racing operations.

To me, it seems that it would have been more intelligent to produce two or three duallies, even using GMC rear ends if necessary, than to blatantly use a GMC to haul their Toyota products to events that host 200,000 people every day for three days. Makes no sense but then as we see lately, Toyota isn't making a lot of sense.

This morning (this afternoon in Japan) the head of Toyota (the founder's grandson) called a press conference. But the conference was to take place in an hour, two hours outside of Tokyo. It was virtually impossible for reporters to get there if they hadn't been informed earlier. The conference is going on now and that little bastard is being asked easy questions and is avoiding difficult ones.

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