In the midwest, our "pink slips" were traditionally white but our race challenges were made "title for title"! Winner takes all. I never lost a car, but have to say I never won a car either! My 57 D500 usually did well with a good challenge only comming from the Olds J2s and FI Vettes. Brian Wayne Graefen wrote: > > As an aside, the term pink slips comes from California where car > titles for many decades were printed on pink paper. Within the > last ten years they changed the paper to pink and yellow and > green for some silly governmental reason. > > But "racing for pinks" comes from the old days of hot-rodding > in "the golden state". > > Wayne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Dennison" <fury57@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 9:10 PM > Subject: Two-Lane Blacktop > > I`d like to see this movie. I read it somewhere before it was a > movie. I > don`t remember the cars but maybe there was a Mopar since I read > the > whole story. I think they were racing another car across the > country to > where they had mailed their pink slips to in one envelope and > the winner > got both cars. Along the way they had to pick races with the > locals to > earn gas money.
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