The first time I saw Top Gear I was appalled by the comments. Then I suddenly realized that they weren't serious. It's just the BBC TV version of Car Talk. Then I liked it.
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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.
