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The name of the show, and the tagline "Lose the race – lose your ride", refer to common slang of pink slips representing a vehicle's title document recording ownership, and the derivative street-racing phrase, "racing for pinks," meaning a race in which the winner earns the loser's car. (In California, until recently, the vehicle title was on ...
Street races are sometimes wagered on, either by the participants or observers. This is the origin of the term "racing for pink slips" (which means that the winner keeps the opponent's car), which inspired the 2005 Speed Channel series Pinks and is the primary wager shown in The Fast and The Furious films. This, in real life, seldom happens ...
In The Price Is Right, the pricing game Gas Money features contestants trying to avoid the actual retail price of the car; that price is marked with a pink slip. Also, in the 1978 film Grease, the characters mention racing for "pink slips, ownership papers". [1]
A car title loan, or “pink slip loan,” allows you to borrow anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percent of the value of your vehicle in exchange for giving the lender the title to your vehicle as ...
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An atmosphere of hostility develops between the two parties. Although GTO is not an overt street racer and seems to know little about cars, a cross-country race to Washington, D.C., is suggested. The Driver proposes that the prize should be "pinks" (pink slips), or legal ownership of the loser's car. Along the way, GTO picks up various ...
Pink slip may refer to: Vehicle title, in the United States, also known as "certificate of title", a legal form, establishing a person or business as the legal owner of a vehicle; Pink slip, a deprecated vehicle inspection paper in Australia; Pink slip (employment), a form of termination notice
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