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Posted by Pavel314 on November 3, 2009, 9:38 am
wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:44:24 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> Old story. If you can't dodge, ram it.
> > My neighbor's truck has a big sign on it that says RAM.
> I never quite worked out why you'd name a truck after a sheep, anyway.
Having raised sheep for many years, I can attest to the strength and
toughness of a ram. However, the derivation seems to be a bit more
convoluted than that. From http://main.ramchargers.com/
"In 1959 a group of engineers from Chrysler Corporation began to
participate in the nation's new craze; "Drag racing". They started
with a 1949 Plymouth business coupe, named "The High and Mighty". They
had extensive experience with the "long-horn" intake manifold that
powered the early Chrysler 300 series, and began to experiment with
the technology in drag racing. The name soon evolved from long-horn to
ram's -horn and eventually the public settled on the nickname Ram-
Induction. By the 1960 race season this group created the team named,
RAMCHARGERS."
Paul
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