Last chance to get your name on the Democratic National Convention NASCAR

ok, some of us (0.00 / 0)

want to know more about the car....

model, driver, team, and so on

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by: UplandPoet @ Sat May 12, 2012 at 10:54:56 AM UTC

Might be (0.00 / 0)

Looking at the Dem Con website that Oreo linked it looks like it is the Sam Hornish #12 car for the Nationwide series. And that would be a Chevy.

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by: Emit R Detsaw @ Sat May 12, 2012 at 13:01:51 PM UTC

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Correction (0.00 / 0)

Dodge. LOL

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by: Emit R Detsaw @ Sat May 12, 2012 at 13:03:54 PM UTC

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Ok, I'm confused (0.00 / 0)

The 12 is driven by Hornish in the Nationwide series, and that is a Pensky Dodge, but the picture is of a Chevy nose. Currently there is no one driving the #12 car in the Sprint Cup series, so maybe it is that car with driver and team to be named?

Yup, I'm confused.......

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by: Emit R Detsaw @ Sat May 12, 2012 at 13:09:44 PM UTC

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thanks for trying! i havent followed nascar since about the time richard petty STARTED winning.... (0.00 / 0)

but i have a soft spot for it, and think it is a good way to reach some working class knuckle heads.

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by: UplandPoet @ Sat May 12, 2012 at 21:13:06 PM UTC

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Not sure... (0.00 / 0)

The image is just what came up after I made the donation.  

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by: Oreo @ Sun May 13, 2012 at 00:20:10 AM UTC

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Well (0.00 / 0)

Many of the sites that I have seen don't have much info. The following link probably says the most, yet is still vague.

http://www.wcnc.com/news/dnc-c...

"I'm proud that my home state was chosen to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention and excited to share some of the Southern hospitality that we are known for in the Carolinas," Wheeler says in the letter. "I'm even more proud that the Convention will kick off with a free, family-friendly Labor Day celebration at the place I spent the majority of my career at - the Charlotte Motor Speedway."

The stock car will also be part of that Labor Day party as well as other events leading up to the convention at Time Warner Cable Arena in uptown Charlotte.

Reading that, I can't tell if the car will be raced at Charlotte on the Labor Day weekend, or just used as a Show Car. For those that don't know Humpy Wheeler, he is the former President and General Manager of Lowes Motor Speedway at Charlotte.

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by: Emit R Detsaw @ Sun May 13, 2012 at 14:00:33 PM UTC

Is this an electric car? (0.00 / 0)

just saying...

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by: trud @ Thu May 17, 2012 at 20:04:21 PM UTC

as soon as they develop an electric car that can go 600 miles at 215 MPH (0.00 / 0)

you will probably see them on NASCAR. but that brings up an excellent point. There ought to be an E racing circuit, open to all zero emission cars! as in regular racing, i bet it would help with both development and sales!

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by: UplandPoet @ Fri May 18, 2012 at 07:05:04 AM UTC

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meanwhile (0.00 / 0)

Dems shouldn't be putting their names on stuff that trashes the planet.

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by: trud @ Mon May 21, 2012 at 14:41:26 PM UTC

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good thinking.... (0.00 / 0)

lets see, the internet uses tons of electricity, most of which is either made by oil, or coal, or natural gas, the clean alternative, which is destroying our water and air thru fracking, traditional newsprint which is super anti planet with the cutting of trees, the burning of fossil fuel to turn the trees into paper, the cost and chemicals used in printing, and then more fuel used in delivering it, not to mention that a lot of it doesnt get recycled.... so how should the dems or any other environmentally aware group reach out to people? especially people who would be better served by dems than the gop, but are being brainwashed by their rightwing environment?

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by: UplandPoet @ Tue May 22, 2012 at 22:49:12 PM UTC

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