"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:39:19 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Perhaps you don't understand the meaning of 'stock' as applied to
cars?

A stock car is something entirely different!

As regards racing, perhaps. In normal car speak in the UK it is used
to indicate a 'base' or 'poverty' model, although it's not much used
these days. And that's obviously what I took the OP to mean by it.

********, I've been buying cars for forty years


ditto (had about or just over a 100 different ones myself now...)


and I've *never* heard
*anyone* refer to a base model as a 'stock' model.


neither have I - 'base' or 'basic' model only...



That's usually referred to as the 'base' model. In all (?) the
dealerships
I worked in, 'stock' referred to the vehicles we had 'in stock' or 'on
the
board' at that moment.

In the US, 'stock' refers to an unmodified car


In the UK a 'stock car' is one made for racing - similar to (but probably
not the same as) 'banger racing'.

I ground Barry Ansell's valves in for him when I was a schoolkid (so that's
pre 1964, when I left/escaped) and he went on to become World Champion that
year and a friend of mine had is arm ripped off at the shoulder, stock car
racing....

(End of 'stock car' anecdotes and *all* interest in the subject.....)