we need to produce a local show, kind of in the spirit of Top Gear, but on a shoestring budget, with lots of stupid stunts and gags. Like on public access or something...

I vote we call it POS. Shoot me some ideas. BBR, optmus, etc...you will all have active parts in the writing and production of said show. Seriously, Garage folks, this needs to HAPPEN

10/10/2009 9:23:51 PM

you should just watch "davidsfarm" on youtube

10/10/2009 9:26:11 PM

no, no, no...we will have organization...reviews of readily available hunks of shit, track times, butchery of automobiles, interviews with celebrities.

Where's your sense of adventure?!!

10/10/2009 9:53:02 PM

I'd be down we could autox my town car

10/10/2009 10:36:16 PM

That's the kind of shit I'm talking about.

10/11/2009 12:48:35 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwE4wT08JM

10/11/2009 2:18:20 AM

Your point, sir? Naw...I wanna do something more top gearish. Unless you ain't down. Then GTFO.

10/11/2009 2:37:54 AM

I am down, but how the fuck you plan on filming it?


Ivan and I have loosely discussed crashing a car on the property adjacent to mine on new years.

10/11/2009 3:21:47 AM

I got connections, man, I got connections. Leave that shit up to me.

10/11/2009 3:34:31 AM

rely


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you??

10/11/2009 4:44:56 AM

makes me still wish the maxima was around.

10/11/2009 12:33:12 PM

Yeah, rely on me, jigaboo. I has connections you don't here.

Yeah, the Maxima would have been a great contender for this show.

10/11/2009 3:11:12 PM

Quote :

"you should just watch "davidsfarm" on youtube"

thanks, you completely killed any chance of me getting some work done today.

10/11/2009 3:52:10 PM

Can i be the drunk guy that does alot of bitchin?

10/11/2009 4:12:33 PM

need [semi] professional filming.. gonna try to see if there are any names on the rolodex tomorrow at work
JBaz got u covered on photography??


also need a couple of motorheads at WRAL and a at venture investment firm to make it [raleigh] big

10/11/2009 4:49:40 PM

I have WRAL connections...as well as a pro camera and vidya editing man.

10/11/2009 5:10:53 PM

oh word.. well lets make it happen!!

i'll be responsible for international support & distribution

10/11/2009 5:51:00 PM

I just smoked the shit out of my mower, we can have a mower smoking segment

10/12/2009 1:51:09 AM

Quote :

"you should just watch "davidsfarm" on youtube"

fyi before any of you go thinking this guy is too cool, he's a convicted child molester/pedophile. some of the charges involving his own children. i, too, used to watch all his stuff until i found that out.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/09/22/11046176-sun.html

as for this idea, you don't even have to ask if i'm down. i don't think i'll be holding my breath on anything materializing, though.

10/12/2009 8:04:53 AM

well, I don't blame you on that one. I'm just trying to figure out in my head if this is really worth my time. I'd love to do something like this, but only if it opens up more possibilities or even the chance at doing something that might come close to a paying gig.

10/12/2009 9:06:29 AM

^ Often a man with great vision needs to work with a man of practicality and precise execution in order to achieve goals. Each complements the other.

10/12/2009 8:03:57 PM

I'll put my POS on the show .

10/12/2009 8:05:19 PM

I'll offer up a segment on a 350-400 whp GTI in a few months.

10/12/2009 8:35:43 PM

i will do a segment on the location of the ngr valve replacement.

10/12/2009 8:45:17 PM

^^

We can illustrate the impact of power to weight in an episode!

10/12/2009 10:05:05 PM

the new turbo should have me running mid to low 11s in the quarter, from the current 14.6.

10/12/2009 10:51:12 PM

oh damn i didn't know it was AWD

10/12/2009 11:05:03 PM

I've been persuaded to do foolish things in the past, and possibly could be again.
http://www.facebook.com/v/624324142369

10/12/2009 11:40:32 PM

^^me AWD? I'm FWD. I will have a LSD very shortly though.

10/13/2009 12:32:11 AM

We could auto-x MY town car heheh.

10/13/2009 12:47:31 AM

oh. youre in for a surprise.

10/13/2009 12:48:03 AM

I'm down, once the town car is twin-turbo'd I'll be taking all challengers...in a straight line race lol. Now I'm curious, shredder, what year town car do you have? I only know of one other 1980's box on campus.

[Edited on October 13, 2009 at 1:09 AM. Reason : :=]

10/13/2009 12:54:00 AM

THIS, gentlemen, is what I'm talking about.

First order of the day, once I've talked to my camera/video/production friend (and assuming I can get him onboard; I don't think it will be too hard)...is to establish a venue for the first (and possibly subsequent) show.

What do y'all know about Maxton? Available for third parties? Who has rights to it? I know ECTA runs there, and there are a lot of autox events there. What about Rocky Mt? Know of others?

Next on the list...I'm wondering what TV route to go. Any ideas?

10/13/2009 1:11:18 AM

i was talkin about the fwd 350hp

10/13/2009 1:13:26 AM

You disrupted my idea, sir.

10/13/2009 1:38:43 AM

I call dibs on doing supercar reviews.

and by supercar reviews I mean reviewing cars by driving them on Gran Tourismo.



oh and you might be better off just starting a youtube channel. let it grow viral, then you'll have something to shop to tv networks.

[Edited on October 13, 2009 at 9:33 AM. Reason : tv]

10/13/2009 9:32:20 AM

That was just suggested by a couple of my friends. This is something to think about. Hard thinkin'...

10/13/2009 9:52:14 AM

Quote :

"What about Rocky Mt? Know of others?"

If you're talking about the old airport at Rocky Mount it is gone. They ripped it up, put a road through the middle of it, and built a YMCA with a bunch of soccer fields and shit a few years ago.

I saw a lot of races out there and did a lot of runs myself back in the day. It was fun running about 140 down the middle of a huge runway and trying to time when you need to hit the brakes for them to work before you get to the little patch of trees at the end.

10/13/2009 9:53:18 AM

be sure to keep us updated on this little project

10/13/2009 8:19:20 PM

Quote :

"oh and you might be better off just starting a youtube channel. let it grow viral, then you'll have something to shop to tv networks."

yep. not to mention youtube can be fairly profitable in it's own right through partnership if you have something really successful. the guy mentioned above, david rock of davesfarm, is raking in $15k+ a month. he hasn't been a partner all that long, either...

might consider the community access channel too, i've seen some pretty crap stuff on there over the years.

keep in mind we've already got hours and hours of video of shenanigans over the years, too. Tuite has most of the good stuff saved on an external hard drive.

10/13/2009 8:36:27 PM

I've been doing a lot of nissan z32 work lately and have been watching the youtube channel of this Z32 shop in clayton. He just posts a video a day of some little thing(in one case riding to the mail box on his lawnmower), but apparently it drums up business. He doesn't strike me as entirely sane, but he's got like 15 cars sitting in the yard and people shipping their shit to him from the west coast for work.

There's a MG guy that's been doing the same thing for years.

My point: people will watch anything on youtube.

10/13/2009 9:58:46 PM

Who is the guy in Clayton?

10/13/2009 10:24:29 PM

http://www.youtube.com/user/The300ZXGuru#p/u/11/Ectd8vPOArE

[Edited on October 13, 2009 at 11:13 PM. Reason : .]

10/13/2009 11:03:32 PM

in on page 1

10/14/2009 2:38:10 PM

i'm down...and can provide any help needed.

10/14/2009 2:50:19 PM

Oh, i'm totally in for this. I'm sure there are plenty others who are better than me on here, but I can provide some graphic design skillz.

Also, I volunteer my jeep and any other toys I have sitting around. A 7 foot long potato cannon perhaps. Or a 2 foot tall kids bike with a chainsaw engine welded to it (20mph top speed).

10/14/2009 3:05:31 PM

I'd like to contribute. I write a little scratch for ridelust.com every now and then when I have time. I'm in Charlotte and live by a local airpark. I've ridden down the runway a few times at night...

Random thought, does anybody know anything about a closed coarse in Savannah near the bridge. I was visiting my little brother a while ago and we found this place. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=savannah,+ga&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.550571,78.662109&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Savannah,+Chatham,+Georgia&ll=32.086374,-81.075819&spn=0.013871,0.019205&t=h&z=16


Oops did some google searching. Found a PDF of an old NY Times article from 1908: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=940DEFDC1731E233A25751C2A9679D946997D6CF

Very cool.

This would be my vote for the location of our Top Gear track (with modification).

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM. Reason : found it.]

10/14/2009 3:31:52 PM

Yep, I've seen that. I've actually driven around it, though, mind you, it was at night with my ex-wife while we were exploring Savannah. I wonder if they recreated the Grand Prize of America races on it or something. It has gators in the turns and everything. Or at least it did about 7 or 8 years ago.

Interestingly enough, SCCA has Roebling Road, which is like less than 10 or 15 miles from there.

10/14/2009 4:27:07 PM

Does anyone know of a stalled housing development due to the recession? They started one across the street from my parents a couple years ago, paved the streets and everything, then couldn't sell any lots for homes. So naturally, myself and a few of the neighbors decided to re purpose it as our own personal test track.

It was great when I was building the dune buggy to be able to do short test runs without getting on the highway, and the mustang guys next door had their own personal 1/8 mile strip. I learned to ride my street bike there as well.

An older couple bought the lot at the end of the road recently, so I've laid off out of respect but I think the mustang guys kept on and ended up having a conversation with the cops. Still, having all that virgin asphalt was great while it lasted.

10/14/2009 5:09:21 PM

The bad thing about subdivision streets is that, after the subdivision has been recorded and the streets are built, they are usually deeded over to the state and become public roadways under state and county jurisdiction. Therefore, they fall under state road and traffic laws.

10/14/2009 5:15:20 PM