True stories

[Don Dulmage <big-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope your all sitting down. 
here is my worst moment. 
Back in the day. (early seventies I ran a homebuilt 69 Dart at Cayuga drag strip.I had a 68 Street hemi in it from a Dodge charger and I had converted it to race hemi specs (12 to 1s etc but still had the stock carters on it and homemade wide wheels on the rear (from ramcharger 8 inch rims. Despite the hemi it was a pretty plain car but as a young newly married sruggling mechanic i was more than fortunate just to have it. One day at the track a guy showed up with a beautiful 68 Dart . it had everything on it. Chome anodized. etc etc.  My focus was and always has been engines. I can barely properly wash and chamois my car so i know nothing about detailing and seem to be completely void of any talent in that direction. On the back of this guys beautiful black shiny sparkling car was a licence plate saying "MOTHERS POLISH". Proud as I am of my germnan heritage i had never seen anyone display a license plate on a race car to that end and I thought this  guy really must be proud of his Polish roots.  
As we waitied in the lanes making small talk I said to him "So your Mother is Polish, eh?" He went bezerk! Thats Mothers Polish,  you idiot! he screamed.  I had never heard of the stuff and so for a moment I felt terribly stupid. I have a lot of Polish friends so I had no derogatory ideas about them as a people I just thought he was a proud one. After i overcame my embarrasment it was then smeone whispered in my ear. that that dart guy is running a BB chevy in it. After that I didnt care and wished I had said a lot more but just the same everytime i think of this I feel a tinge of embarrasment.  I still grin though too everytime it comes to mind. I was too, as innocent as I could be. I had never heard of Mother Polish , not once ever before that day. 
Now when i m need a polish For the old 63 I look specifically for that brand since it is indulably etched in my mind. 
Don
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