Jimmy

Anybody see this? A new reality show on TV. Actually looking for people to
put their 1/4 mile killers head in the guillotine.

Lose the race and you lose title to your car? Yeah, right. No matter what
car you have, somebody's always faster. Just like no matter how well you
think you can fight, you can get your ass beat. Or how well you shoot,
etc...(ever lose to your wife at bench rifle target practice? I did...it
sucked!)

Saw this link off of racingjunk dot com http://racingjunk.com/pinks.jsp A
web show with somebody actually losing their car. WTF? Then of course ads
for others to get on TV and attempt to lose their fully titled car. Ha!
Right. Anybody willing to give speed channel a free car to promote the show
should just sell the car for cash.

**Nobody gives a crap if you're on TV. ESPECIALLY if you lose your car!**

RichA

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:45:28 -0500, "Jimmy" <Jimsfastls1@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Anybody see this? A new reality show on TV. Actually looking for people to
>put their 1/4 mile killers head in the guillotine.
>
>Lose the race and you lose title to your car? Yeah, right. No matter what
>car you have, somebody's always faster. Just like no matter how well you
>think you can fight, you can get your ass beat. Or how well you shoot,
>etc...(ever lose to your wife at bench rifle target practice? I did...it
>sucked!)
>
>Saw this link off of racingjunk dot com http://racingjunk.com/pinks.jsp A
>web show with somebody actually losing their car. WTF? Then of course ads
>for others to get on TV and attempt to lose their fully titled car. Ha!
>Right. Anybody willing to give speed channel a free car to promote the show
>should just sell the car for cash.
>
>**Nobody gives a crap if you're on TV. ESPECIALLY if you lose your car!**
>
>
>

I hate to break it to you Zeke, but those reality shows are scripted
and no one is going to lose their car and get nothing in return.
Sounds as stupid as any other reality show. But, if they could
arrange to have Donald Trump just short of the 1/4 mile mark so he
gets hit by either car, I'd watch it.
-Rich

JohnR66

"RichA" <none@none.com> wrote in message
news:tfqs41t51bqmm5uou59lpj3irlcnjvqkgj@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:45:28 -0500, "Jimmy" <Jimsfastls1@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Anybody see this? A new reality show on TV. Actually looking for people to
>>put their 1/4 mile killers head in the guillotine.
>>
>>Lose the race and you lose title to your car? Yeah, right. No matter what
>>car you have, somebody's always faster. Just like no matter how well you
>>think you can fight, you can get your ass beat. Or how well you shoot,
>>etc...(ever lose to your wife at bench rifle target practice? I did...it
>>sucked!)
>>
>>Saw this link off of racingjunk dot com http://racingjunk.com/pinks.jsp
>>A
>>web show with somebody actually losing their car. WTF? Then of course ads
>>for others to get on TV and attempt to lose their fully titled car. Ha!
>>Right. Anybody willing to give speed channel a free car to promote the
>>show
>>should just sell the car for cash.
>>
>>**Nobody gives a crap if you're on TV. ESPECIALLY if you lose your car!**
>>
>>
>>
>
> I hate to break it to you Zeke, but those reality shows are scripted
> and no one is going to lose their car and get nothing in return.
> Sounds as stupid as any other reality show. But, if they could
> arrange to have Donald Trump just short of the 1/4 mile mark so he
> gets hit by either car, I'd watch it.
> -Rich

He probably thought that WWF was real westling...

JS

"JohnR66" <nospam@att.net> wrote in message
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>
> "RichA" <none@none.com> wrote in message
> news:tfqs41t51bqmm5uou59lpj3irlcnjvqkgj@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:45:28 -0500, "Jimmy" <Jimsfastls1@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Anybody see this? A new reality show on TV. Actually looking for people
>>>to
>>>put their 1/4 mile killers head in the guillotine.
>>>
>>>Lose the race and you lose title to your car? Yeah, right. No matter what
>>>car you have, somebody's always faster. Just like no matter how well you
>>>think you can fight, you can get your ass beat. Or how well you shoot,
>>>etc...(ever lose to your wife at bench rifle target practice? I did...it
>>>sucked!)
>>>
>>>Saw this link off of racingjunk dot com http://racingjunk.com/pinks.jsp
>>>A
>>>web show with somebody actually losing their car. WTF? Then of course ads
>>>for others to get on TV and attempt to lose their fully titled car. Ha!
>>>Right. Anybody willing to give speed channel a free car to promote the
>>>show
>>>should just sell the car for cash.
>>>
>>>**Nobody gives a crap if you're on TV. ESPECIALLY if you lose your car!**
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I hate to break it to you Zeke, but those reality shows are scripted
>> and no one is going to lose their car and get nothing in return.
>> Sounds as stupid as any other reality show. But, if they could
>> arrange to have Donald Trump just short of the 1/4 mile mark so he
>> gets hit by either car, I'd watch it.
>> -Rich
>
> He probably thought that WWF was real westling...

While I'm fully aware that WWF/WWE isn't real wrestling... I know that a)
people have done this in the past, mostly back in the muscle car heydays...
b) people in general will do almost anything to get on TV... and c) some
people think their car is faster than anyone else's. I wouldn't be
surprised if this isn't for real. But... I think that the winner either
gets to keep the car or get a prize that they would otherwise give to the
loser for appearing on TV. In some cases, the prize is probably worth more
than the opponent's car.

JS

one80out@hotmail.com

There was a write-up on this show in Car Craft. The producers buy both
the cars, starting with fairly similar models, and turn them over to
two-person teams. The teams try to tune up their cars and in the final
showdown the winning team gets both cars. The cars in the Car Craft
story were basic '70's beaters, Firebirds iirc. It didn't look very
interesting. I mean, you can watch real drag racers duke it out in NHRA
meets just about every weekend.

180 Out

ZombyWoof

On 3 Apr 2005 22:01:17 -0700, one80out@hotmail.com wrote something
wonderfully witty:

>There was a write-up on this show in Car Craft. The producers buy both
>the cars, starting with fairly similar models, and turn them over to
>two-person teams. The teams try to tune up their cars and in the final
>showdown the winning team gets both cars. The cars in the Car Craft
>story were basic '70's beaters, Firebirds iirc. It didn't look very
>interesting. I mean, you can watch real drag racers duke it out in NHRA
>meets just about every weekend.
>
>180 Out
>
Ah hell I've been watching this show, it is exactly as you describe
it. They buy two exact cars, two teams of two guys each do some minor
build-ups on em to hawk somebody or another speed product then haul em
out to the local dragstrip to run head to head.

The way it works is these brothers host the show and pick up two
identical cars, the one I saw it was IROC Z's. They bring in the two
teams of two guys who do a coin toss to see who picks which car. They
then dyno em to get a baseline. After that both teams are given mods
to make by the hosts, usually designed to Hawk some sponsors product.
If they get those mods done in time they are offered their choice of a
second mod from a choice of like three. They then dyno loth cars
again to see what improvements were made and head out to the track.
The winning team gets both cars, or in another words each guy on the
team gets to keep one. The teams are usually made up of guys that are
buds.
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