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GarysZ24 · 01-03-2009, 07:05 PM

Originally posted by DK Frazier...
Gary, you are right. We need to check for labels for made in US. Tracey and I are on a 7 year Walmart ban. She saw a man in there one time trying to buy jeans that had a "made in the USA" sign with the price on it. After several store employee's could not find the jeans made in the USA she heard the manager explain to him it was not the jeans made in the USA but the sign the price was on! Ain't that some crap?

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Doug, I had to shake my head (tisk, tisk), after reading that...I'm amazed the sign wasn't made in China too for crying out loud! It brought back memories of my boss and I (Christmas '07) going into a JC Penneys store looking for houseware type of stuff for his home, and out of 20 items that I checked only finding one ("1") item made in the USA! The only other non-Chinese item was made in Italy...That Sucks Big Time! WE NEED THE AMERICA BACK THAT WE WERE BORN INTO, & GREW UP IN...THE AMERICA THAT TOOK CARE OF ITSELF, AND ITS PEOPLE!!!!

Sorry for my little tyrant, but our govt. (on both sides of the isle) has made my blood boil with things like NAFTA, and this global economy crap!!!

I'm anxious to see the contingency postings for 2009, and how they're going to affect our classes? Now that Castrol has gone, winning class is becoming less and less significant (sans an Indy win, cos at least you get a picture in dragster for that) for me now that a class win would only be worth $100 for my car... due to the lack of companies that make things I can use being out there posting nowadays. In '99 I got $500 for a class win with my fwd car...last year $150...but this year??? I may just do what the guy in another post on this forum suggested (but for all of my decals), and get the hair dryer out! Running my cars body decal-free (like Steve Hagberg's Savoy is), was great for him last year, and heck I made the quarters at the '06 Mile High Nationals and carded the best Stocker package of the meet (.006!), with my Z24 only showing off its fresh (for the year) Corvette red paint job!

01-03-2009, 07:05 PM	#32
GarysZ24 VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Tempe, Az. Posts: 1,270 Likes: 918 Liked 238 Times in 94 Posts	Re: Who's Racing & Who's Parking for '09? Originally posted by DK Frazier... Gary, you are right. We need to check for labels for made in US. Tracey and I are on a 7 year Walmart ban. She saw a man in there one time trying to buy jeans that had a "made in the USA" sign with the price on it. After several store employee's could not find the jeans made in the USA she heard the manager explain to him it was not the jeans made in the USA but the sign the price was on! Ain't that some crap?!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE] Doug, I had to shake my head (tisk, tisk), after reading that...I'm amazed the sign wasn't made in China too for crying out loud! It brought back memories of my boss and I (Christmas '07) going into a JC Penneys store looking for houseware type of stuff for his home, and out of 20 items that I checked only finding one ("1") item made in the USA! The only other non-Chinese item was made in Italy...That Sucks Big Time! WE NEED THE AMERICA BACK THAT WE WERE BORN INTO, & GREW UP IN...THE AMERICA THAT TOOK CARE OF ITSELF, AND ITS PEOPLE!!!! Sorry for my little tyrant, but our govt. (on both sides of the isle) has made my blood boil with things like NAFTA, and this global economy crap!!! I'm anxious to see the contingency postings for 2009, and how they're going to affect our classes? Now that Castrol has gone, winning class is becoming less and less significant (sans an Indy win, cos at least you get a picture in dragster for that) for me now that a class win would only be worth $100 for my car... due to the lack of companies that make things I can use being out there posting nowadays. In '99 I got $500 for a class win with my fwd car...last year $150...but this year??? I may just do what the guy in another post on this forum suggested (but for all of my decals), and get the hair dryer out! Running my cars body decal-free (like Steve Hagberg's Savoy is), was great for him last year, and heck I made the quarters at the '06 Mile High Nationals and carded the best Stocker package of the meet (.006!), with my Z24 only showing off its fresh (for the year) Corvette red paint job! __________________ Gary Hampton '86 Z24,173 V6 CF/S #5824 (#78 in 2021) Last edited by GarysZ24; 01-03-2009 at 07:11 PM.