Wes;
I also heard that dogs liked to eat those license plates.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: "Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:32 AM
To: "LAND SPEED LIST" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: [Land-speed] Soy based plastic?
> http://ethanolproducer.com/article.jsp?article_id=6433
>
> To continue his allegiance to ethanol, Hajek has begun production of a new
> flex-fuel race car, a 2011 Mustang. This time Hajek is going further with
> biobased products. Along with the use of E85, the car will be made with
> bioplastic side panels provided by Ford. The hood and fenders are all
> soy-based plastic. The advantage to the soy plastic body panels is the
> weight.
> The soy is lighter and not petroleum-based plastic. This stuff is
> renewable,
> more earth friendly, he explains.
>
> Ask any Utah license plate collector about the soybean based plastic
> license
> plates and goats. That plate is one of the most difficult to collect and
> one
> reason is goats seemed to like to eat them. Not that there were that many
> goats running around loose in Utah in 1944 ... ! The plates were a soy
> based
> plastic with a paper printed license pasted onto the backing. They were
> not
> that durable and I remember how many of them cracked when someone "parked
> by
> ear."
>
> I'm laughing because I had to call Jim Wright to confirm the year they
> used
> the soy plastic plates. He wasn't even a twinkle in his father's eye in
> 1944.
>
> Wes
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