You ought to send this to them - I bet they'd read it out on Top Gear and thank you for correcting them.
B > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > John Sessoms > Sent: 29 December 2010 20:34 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Top Gear - GFM ? > > From: Cotty > > > On 29/12/10, Mat Maessen, discombobulated, unleashed: > > > >> >Just don't try to find a set of rear tires for it in rural North > >> >Carolina... :-) > > Found a youtube link for the first 10 mins which shows them on > GFM... > > > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF8pPHhUosc&feature=related> > > > >>From 2 minutes in... > > > > They do seem to get a remarkable number of things wrong or > misrepresented. > > They start talking about the "Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia", but the > entire Blue Ridge Parkway segment is in North Carolina. They don't get > the whole idea of the Blue Ridge Parkway ... it's a PARK-way. > > It's not about how fast you can blast down the road, it's about a > leisurely drive to see some of the country's most beautiful scenery. If > you're in a hurry, take the f****n' Interstate. That's what it's there > for. > > They call northwestern North Carolina (Daniel Boone country) "Squeal > like a pig" territory. Wrong geographic reference. > > "Squeal lika a pig" is from the movie Deliverance, set along the > fictional "Cahulawassee River" in Georgia. The "Cahulawassee" is based > in part on the Chattooga River that forms the border between South > Carolina and Georgia and partly on the Chattahoochee river that flows > from the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia through suburban > Atlanta before joining with the Flint River near the Georgia/Florida > border to become the Apalachicola. They're about 200 miles too far > north. > > There is no Interstate Highway between Grandfather Mountain and > Wilkesboro, NC. It's US 421 all the way from where you exit the Parkway > just east of Boone. The Interstate footage interspersed with the US 421 > footage appears to be from I-81 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. > It's a long detour to get onto any interstate between the Parkway at > GFM > and Wilkesboro, NC. > > I don't know where they found that steel truss bridge, but it ain't in > North Carolina, and it's not on I-81 in Virginia either. I've driven > I-81 several times all the way from its origin at exit 421 off of I-40 > in eastern Tennessee to Harrisburg, PA, and that bridge ain't on I-81 > anywhere south of Harrisburg. > > The quickest way from the Wilkesboro Speedway north is to take US 421 > east to I-77 north to I-81 north. You could save about 10 miles if you > know to take NC 268, but you won't save any time, because it's 35-55 > mph > on NC 268 and 55-65 mph on US 421/I-77. NC 268 only makes sense if you > have to make service calls in Elkin, NC as I did when it was part of my > service territory back when I worked for the alarm company. > > What took me up I-81 so often was having to cover for the techs in > adjacent territories, so they'd cover for me when I was off being all I > could be. > > Wilkesboro Speedway is not the birthplace of NASCAR. It's one of the > early tracks, possibly the first paved oval (IDK), but NASCAR was born > in Daytona Beach, FL. and the first race was at Charlotte Speedway > (defunct) and the third was at Occoneechee Speedway (also defunct) in > Hillsborough, NC, which were the first two dedicated NASCAR tracks. > > The Daytona Beach Road Course used for the second race of the first > season was not a NASCAR track. The NASCAR track at Daytona > International > Speedway didn't open until 1959 - 10 years after the founding of > NASCAR. > > Wilkesboro was the last race of that first 1949 NASCAR season. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
