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chest. It makes a great salad dressing, too, if you're a true man of steel. Get the details from Tarco Oil Co., Department Oily Christmas, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670, 213/944-6361 . r--C'J ~ Q.I ..0 E Q.I > o Z How about a cuddly stuffed animal for the mini racer hanging around your shop? Get that cute little devil a nice apian stuffed animal, (like the one shown here). from San Diego Zoo, Department Endangered Species, San Diego, CA. Not only will you gladden your youngster's heart, but you'll be ~ Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. What does the modern Santa mounted on a Kowalski 903 moto-raindeer wear to keep his belly button from frosting over on cold nights? Why, a leather jacket, of course. One of the nicer high quality jackets we've seen around is available ready made (off-the-shelf) for $69.95 from The Leather Factory, 2370 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95128. You can call them at 408/286-3450 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays. And after you've spent all Christmas Even delivering goodies to nice kids allover the place, you can loan your jacket to '! 28 ! a nice kid on the morning, at'te~'. - Who knows, in return' for loaning her your spiffy, rpodern moto-Santa jacket, your favorite nice kid might spring for a lset of real live ready made motocross pants for you this hofiday season fast approaching. They also come from The Leather Factory, 2370 Stevens Creek Blvd .• San Jose, CA 95128. zip code 408/286-3450. For that trial or trai I enthusiast doing a great service by saving endangered animals, too. Do just like the zoo does. Take one of the critters out of the area where they're disappearing, put it behind a moat, and let tourists throw bread and burgers to it. Zap! A stuffed animal. on your Christmas list, how about a Backcountry Fanny Pack? It's. made of 8 ounce waterproof nylon duck, and comes in two waist sizes, small and large. It rides down in the small of the back where it won't bother you, and is large enough to, hold a jacket and gloves or a picnic lunch for trail rides. Available in red, navy, international - orange, tan, and green, the Fanny Pack sells for $10.50. As with all the Backcountry products we've seen, the emphasis is on quality and durability. The winning Baja team of Mayes and Bakken used Backcountry manufactured equipment in their victory, and it held up fine. Get this and other Backcountry goods from Backcountry, 8272 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park, CA 90620. You can buzz them at 714/523-4852 or 213/941 -3671 . Are you really into espionage, friend? Are you one of the believers in the theory that suspension quality makes as much difference as horsepower in racing? Then just get your hands on some General Electric SF-1166 LV Silicone Fork Fluid. There isn't much of it around, and it "mayor may not ever be available commercially," but if you can lift some of it from a factory racing team truck at one of the Trans-AMA's, you're in business. In the old days, they used to sing of hoping for a white Christmas. Now all most people need for an unusually great Christmas is clean air. You can do your part by cleaning up your two-stroke act with Torco's new synthetic oil. It's now being test marketed under an assumed name, but identified as "T-2 S Synthetic Oil". Its release was stimulated by recent EPA threats to two-strokers, and it carries a nice price tag - calculating out to about 8 cents less per gallon of gas/oil mi x than other synthetic earls on the market. It has been tested for two years (Get it? Two years, two stroke. Get it?) to minimize smoke emission. It has good rust and corrosion protection, can be injected or pre-mi xed, has cleaning power, and a minus 55 degree pour pornt, so you can store it in your ice Want to -make sure your hair stays in place when you get all slicked up for the traditional holiday feast? Try some Pennzoil High Performance Gear Lube 4096, providing maximum anti-rust, anti-foam protection, and inhibiting oil oxidation. It makes a fine stocking stuffer, too, and an equally fine reward for your Elsinore when it doesn't spit out second gear while you're leading the third moto. It comes in nice applicator top quart plastic bottles, too. Info from Pennzoil Company, P.O. Box 808, Oil City, Pennsylvania 16301. A handy-dandy compliment to a fresh trans case full of oil is a new K&N Engineering magnetic drain plug. It's designed to prevent small metal part.icles from circulating through the oil system and causing excessive wear to engine and trans. You can get one from your favorite dealer or direct from K&N Engineering, P.O. Box 1329, Riverside, CA 92502. How about some MX bars as a present for your beloved Tohatsu Twin this yuletide season? These high quality chrome-moly tubing special heat treated numbers are the ones all the hotshoes use. Besides, they're light, and you can get them from Andre's, 3515 W. Alamadea, Burbank, CA 91505, 213/845-9472. Say you can't wi n road races on you r Tohatsu twi n and want to try enduros instead? Well, tell your good buddies to give you a Digital Electronic Odometer from Digital Sport Systems, Department Flush, 1831 Winter Rd., Grand Island NY 14072. After all, it only costs $290, and what are good buddies for?