| STP is a brand name and trade name for the | | | | Indy 500. Jim Hurtubise and Bobby Unser were the |
| automotive additives and performance division of the | | | | drivers. There was a film made of the race centering |
| Clorox Corporation. The Company was Founded in | | | | on the Novis. |
| 1953, the name was derived from "Scientifically | | | | While Studebaker abandoned auto manufacturing in |
| Treated Petroleum". The company entered the | | | | 1966 to become a closed investment company, sales |
| marketplace with STP Oil Treatment. In 1961 the | | | | continued to climb. For a long time the company was |
| company was acquired by the Studebaker-Packard | | | | the sponsor of stock-car drivers Richard Petty, John |
| Corporation. Studebaker briefly tied it into its | | | | Andretti, and Mario Andretti. That ended shortly after |
| advertising as an abbreviation for "Studebaker | | | | its buyout by Clorox. |
| Tested Products". | | | | With these products you can be assured that you |
| However Studebaker-Packard felt that the company | | | | are getting a time tested product an assurance of |
| could one day out-pace its parent company and | | | | quality. I use their injection cleaner and it makes a |
| recruited a CEO of the company to help raise the | | | | difference in my cars performance and mileage. |
| product's image. At the same time, Granatelli racing | | | | Other products they manufacture include: engine |
| became the public face of the company, often | | | | cleaners and degreasers, car interior cleaners, engine |
| wearing a white suit emblazoned with the red oval | | | | oil additives, automobile gas treatments, engine air |
| logo to races, distributing thousands of all-weather | | | | filters, and much more. |
| stickers. Granatelli ran two Novi specials at the 64 | | | | |