There is always talk of what STP stands for. This 1960 Studebaker brochure that I bought on EBAY says it stands for "Scientifically Treated Petroleum".
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I still remember the commercial with Andy Granatelli dipping a screwdriver into a can of motor oil and being able to hold it, then dips a screwdriver into STP and could not hold onto it as it was so slippery. That was a very effective demonstration...truthful or not.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of Andy, he was a showman. His book "They Call Me MISTER 500!" is a great read. I'm sure he's still living large in retirement.Poet...Mystic...Soldier of Fortune. As always...self-absorbed, adversarial, cocky and in general a malcontent.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger View PostRegardless of what anyone thinks of Andy, he was a showman. His book "They Call Me MISTER 500!" is a great read. I'm sure he's still living large in retirement.
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I don't know how true it is, but I read in Wikipedia that when S-P began diversifying in 1960, one of the companies that it purchased in addition to Onan and Gravely tractors was Chemical Compound Corporation, maker of STP.
Mike O'Handley
Kenmore, Washington
hausdok@msn.comMike O'Handley, Cat Herder Third Class
Kenmore, Washington
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'58 Packard Hawk
'05 Subaru Baja Turbo
'71 Toyota Crown Coupe
'69 Pontiac Firebird
(What is it with me and discontinued/orphan cars?)
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When I was in fourth grade, we had a 'free period' when we could write or draw anything we wanted to on the blackboard.I drew the STP logo, under which I wrote "The Racer's Edge".For some reason my teacher Mrs.Horowitz became very angry with me and said,"That's stupid".It wasn't til later on that I found out that S-T-P stood for multiple things lol.
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