Gay Rally Team Struts Their Stuff

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by Frank Williams

Gaywheels.com has entered the first openly gay cross-country rally team in this week's Fireball Run Transcontinental Rally. Driving a Saab 9-3 convertible, Team G.L.A.M (Gay & Lesbian Automotive Maniacs) is one of 55 teams running the 3,500-mile scavenger hunt/race from Orlando, Florida to Los Angeles. The entries in the race include an all-woman Bentley team, the ambulance used in the movie "Cannonball Run," and a 1960's Batmobile (POW! WHAM!). Team G.L.A.M. is currently in second place in the "luxury class" and ninth overall. According to their blow-by-blow description, they've had to deal with state troopers in Alabama and Texas, a blown tire in Louisiana, panic brought on when they forgot key items at a check-in point in Oklahoma City and truckers clogging the CB airways talking about the "faggots in the Saab" as they drove through Nevada.

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  • D996 D996 on Oct 05, 2007

    Is everyone too pc to make jokes? The whole race had to be stopped-all the teams blew their engines.

  • AKM AKM on Oct 05, 2007

    2nd in the luxury class? In a Saab convertible? Wow. Regardless of the sexual orientations, they have to be good cross-country drivers to be in such a position in such an outdated car. Saabs are not even reliable anymore, are they? I mean, you never know when the capote will blow.... In French, softop is a "capote", just like a contraceptive.

  • Omnivore Omnivore on Oct 05, 2007

    Speaking as a homosexual, this just goes to prove what I've been saying for years: gays have an amazing knack for acronyms.

  • Ryan Knuckles Ryan Knuckles on Oct 08, 2007

    Sounds like the Gumball Rally, you know, without any of the fast cars.

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