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To: username who wrote (9330)	4/6/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

A motor blowing up - taht's not yer average "wear'n'tear". Even if you were trying to ace that pesky Fred in his old CJ-7. If your motor was stock (no blowers or ****) write Toyota a nasty letter. Motors blowing up shouldn't happen to anybody who doesn't have a team uniform, or the whole $13000 Sears Craftsman Pro Wrench&stuff Set.

To: username who wrote (9330)	4/7/1998 12:31:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Buddy Baker is joy in a TV set. Spouse is into Stock Car racing. (Indys too.) I know she doesn't like me to use superlatives, but this could be the world's most unexpected/unusual juxtaposition of person and hobby. I use it frequently to startle people. They look up, always, to see if I'm serious; the ones who know MJ; and I pause ~ wait til they just.....about.....object ~ and then say "She can tell you who's first in the point standings." It's like electrocuting them. They back up; then their heads go back down and they slobber. We have a sort of small town perception as non-conforming, but your non-conformists like a certain order; and the conformists can't figure her either, so once again we're like that damn uneven-number quark. But these reality bulletins keep us from being invited anywhere, which is what we like. ("You guys want to come down?" "Can't. MJ's watching Talladega. Race. Alabama. Diehard." "Oh. Oh.") I want Buddy living next to me in the mobile home park. Did you see the 500 Sunday in Texas? With Buddy narrating the steering animation? The anime guys have a rectangular box of a car moving right to left, viewed from overhead, and the front of the car twists right, upward toward the wall. Buddy: "This here we call a push." The car turns back, recovers parallel to the wall and track. Then the rear of the car begins to rotate counterclockwise up toward the wall. With the tail at about two on the clockface Buddy says, "We call this loose." The tail keeps rotating, way past two on up to one, and Buddy says: "I call this a wreck." And yah, ya gotta be there. He's the only person who can say "He done drove for us" without me noticing. I just asked her who is first in the points, and she yells from the living room: "I didn't see it." Pause. "But it has to be Mark Martin, 'cuz he won it, and won last week at Vegas." Sweet, aint it?