I can hear them now. "It's a PARK-way. Well that explains it. You're supposed to park not drive."
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
