[Land-speed] Soy based plastic?

Doug Odom dlodom at charter.net
Thu Mar 18 10:01:11 MST 2010


Didn't Henry Ford sink millions of dollars into growing Soy beans because he 
thought they were going to be the next auto body material.

Doug in big ditch


>
> I also heard that dogs liked to eat those license plates.
>
> Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ
>
>>
>> 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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