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...redhead in a uniform will always get you horny with her hairnet and those white shoes and a name tag and a hat she drove like andy granatelli and knew how to fix a flat...
...thinking about anything else." The formula appeals equally to love-troubled teen-agers and businessmen with the blahs. One Malibu regular is an 86-year-old retiree; another is a prominent psychiatrist who drives up in his own Shelby G.T. The holder of the Northridge speed record is Joe Granatelli, 23, nephew of the great Andy and son of ex-Driver Vince Granatelli. Says he: "My father asked me not to go into real racing. This way I can race safely. I'll come out here and race maybe 20, 30 laps. It relaxes me. I'm going...
Flamboyant, loquacious and abrasively opinionated, Granatelli's chief role at STP was that of promoter. He regularly lavished up to a quarter of the company's annual income on advertising, in which he and his wife Dolly played starring roles, and on sponsoring cars bearing the STP label and Day-Glo red colors in major auto races such as the Indianapolis 500. In ten years as president, he built STP sales from $9,000,000 a year to almost $100 million and expanded the line to include oil filters, engine-block heaters and anti-pollution devices. Granatelli collected...
...recent years, however, Granatelli increased his already astonishing promotional spending to offset the impact of charges that STP additive was of little, if any help for engines. Though the company's sales rose slightly in 1972, net profit skidded by $1.7 million, to $6.7 million. Granatelli was drawn into open disagreement with his fellow directors, especially Ruttenberg, who argued unsuccessfully for a cutback in the costly ad budget. Apparently Ruttenberg seized the opportunity to persuade the board to dump Granatelli after a preliminary company report estimated that third-quarter earnings would again be down sharply-even though most...
Hooker, 43, the man who replaces Granatelli, has a kind of Midas-in-reverse track record. Almost all of his business enterprises-including Minnie Pearl's Chicken System, Mahalia Jackson's Chicken System and the Royal Castle fast-food operation in Miami-have been unsuccessful. Southern aristocrat, he ran twice for Governor of Tennessee and lost both times. Said an earnest Hooker last week: "I really don't know the reason for the change...