Tuesday, August 18, 2009

They make it 'cause we buy it: NASCAR toothbrushes

No sport offers up a more bewildering array of souvenir crap memorabilia than NASCAR, and They Make It digs deep into the corners of the Internet to bring all that strangeness to light. Today: hygiene!

The item: NASCAR toothbrushes, $6.99 apiece from Sport Click Authentics

The deal: It's NASCAR toothbrushes! And how do you know they're meant for NASCAR fans? Because they're not called TEETHbrushes! Ha ha! Get it? Oh, I'm not done yet. This collection has six different models:

• The NASCAR toothbrush, which has steel wool for bristles but will absolutely not be changed, no matter how much sense it might make to change it.

• The Dale Earnhardt toothbrush, which glows with a heavenly aura whenever you pick it up.

• The Dale Earnhardt Jr. toothbrush, which you'll stick up your nose while trying to put it in your mouth.

• The Michael Waltrip toothbrush, which will collide with your cheek and shatter into pieces.

• The Rusty Wallace toothbrush, which bills itself as an astonishing tooth cleaning device but doesn't ever seem to do quite as good a job as you'd think.

• The Tony Stewart toothbrush, which will actually leave your teeth filthier than when you started.

And we're just getting started ...

The hat tip: Gator, who has way too much time on his hands. If you've got some classic NASCARiana, send it along to jay.busbee@yahoo.com. Go!

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