pic: HOT Team Wheels

[Beth Sweet]

Originally Posted by Eric Bareiss

Coming from a GM sponsored team (64) I kinda know what is going on:

GM has lots of cars sitting around that no one uses, for testing purposes. They are a car company. They don't go out and buy these cars for their teams. The teams don't get to keep the cars and certainly cannot sell them. It's just for fun.

If you were GM and you had a couple of teams wouldn't you want to make them look good. They do stuff like this so people will be impressed and jealous. I guess it worked huh?

He hit it right on the bar. That car was a pep car. It was used in a lot of tests. Our old truck was blessed and put to rest this year after traveling the equivilency of, I believe it was, 7 times around the equator. We use the truck/trailer to transport not only all of our parts, but things for other teams too, especially to nationals. And as for the Hummer, yes, it is partially for GM bragging purposes, but it also carries quite a large number of students, and we do use it for that purpose. I'm not sure whether the new Hummer and trailer were paid for by HOT or GM money. I apologize if posting this picture offended anyone, it is just a new thing this year that we're all really proud of.