[Land-speed] Engine ID questionnaire/comments on Bonneville tv

[Adin, David]

Discovery's Bonneville:  this old geezer certainly did NOT like the
"production values" (modern editing) as it makes me dizzy. (no comments,
thanks.)  It was great seeing everything.

Someone, somewhere made a comment about certain folks getting all the
face time on camera. . . . About the first three folks I met were: some
skinny guy, some one named "Skip", and this guy traveling through town
that wanted to have a beer and talk LSR - "Bill Smith" - a likely lie .
. .

Turns out all these folks are "heroes" or giants on the salt and ya know
what?  Everyone out there is a hero and a giant!  Everyone answers my
dumb questions (within reason) and lends a hand.  I don't care if
someone is on TV or not - what matters is how they treat the dummies
(me) and how hard they work.

Another hero:  just finish my blazing 152 mph run (haha) and the first
worker I see says:  "Do you need water or a soda?"  and then:  "How was
your run?"  HERO.

Thanks to all - sorry I got off on this rant.

Have a safe holiday . . . .



-----Original Message-----
From: land-speed-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:land-speed-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of BWANA343 at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:45 AM
To: Mike.Meierle at alcatel-lucent.com; land-speed at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Engine ID questionnaire

In a message dated 12/17/2008 11:55:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Mike.Meierle at alcatel-lucent.com writes:

You guys  should really like this....


12 out of 17. I'm spending too much time w/ ricer motors.
Where's all the comments on last night's Discovery Channel Bonneville
show  ?
My take is Monster Garage type production (and music) featuring hot
biker chick, wild and crazy electric geeks, and the million dollar race
car, and lots of commercials and repetition. All due respect to Leslie
Porterfield, George Poteet, and OSU, but they were picked to embroider
the story line.
I guess a show that we'd like would be a bomb, its gots to bees jazzed
up for commercial TV.
You'd think a day to day, from on the road to, tech, Salt Talks, the
parking lot at the Nuggett, rat rods, all the international spectators
and participants, and all our usual suspect characters, could generate
something marketable .  A kind of Endless Summer treatment, remember
that movie ?
BOB W
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