Kinda OT- Who watched "PINKS" last night?

I thought the kid in the Vdub was a goner fer shur.

Cool episode, better than watching Oprah

Rich

 

what's "pinks" and what channel was it on?

_T

 

Not me. That car was all cage.

I think he deserved to wreck. He earned the nickname 'never lift.'

The comment that got me was the owner for the other team where he said that his negotiation caused the wreck. Only partially true. He was so far out of the groove that I was stunned that he was still in the throttle...

 

He came real close to hitting that honda. When they showed the in car camera of the honda and you saw the bug go flying across. Eek. Messy.

 

I don't think so, not even close

 

It was the first time I saw it.
I was dissappointed.
I thought "Pinks" was gonna be a porno channel.

 

No offense Denise, but, I'd rather watch grass grow.


I'm not up on VW racing, so I didn't know that a pro mod bug can pull 8 second ETs.

 

Put Opra in a bug that is doing the same as the one mentioned then Opra would be worth watching

 

The host gets on my nerves.

 

No but I did watch Build or Bust on Speed channel a couple of nights ago. That show is the worst made show on TV. The only thing that is worse is the commercials for the gay home security system. Cool bikes but man where do they find the retards to be the guests?

 

I watch the show almost every week ut just cause nothing else is on. Get tired of all the whining and crying. Shut up and punch the gas.

Big Tony
Lewisville Texas

Forget cookies and milk ...give me titties and beer

 

Ya fellers catch the episide with the brothers from st louis? Prolly the best Pinks will ever see.

 

The only things that piss me off about this show is the bald guy is clueless about drag racing (how did he land that gig?) and they don't use the tree.

The bald guy is standing right in front of the tree lookin like a major tard when he throws his arms down to get em started... wtf.. just use the tree!

 

Hey look what I found:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pont...oryZ6420QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

they don't use the tree because if you line one guy up 5 car lengths ahead he won't be able to see it...I enjoyed the episode with the MN Hot Rod Hardware guys, mainly because I get to see that A sedan at all the hot rod events up here...

 

Yeah, but what is Menthanol?

On the show they said the reserve would be 42k... close to selling now.

 

yup....no games ....just all out racing.....those were some seriously fast rides.....brandon

 

If someone gave you a big pile of money to do a show featuring people racing home-built drag cars, what kind of racer or rodder would you be if you spent a bunch of the money on a Hummer with police lights and six billet wheels?

You wouldn't be much of a racer. You sure wouldn't be a hot rodder. You'd be a poser, trying to impress people like you, with bad taste and no class.

Dave
http://www.roadsters.com/

 

"Rich Christensen, 41, doesn't race. And he doesn't drag.

"I can barely open the hood of a car. I barely know where to put the gas in the car."

His gift, apparently, is in persuasion.

"The roughest sell in the world is selling a TV show to a network, the concept."

Christensen, a native of New Hampton, has an ambition, to make it on television. He moved to New York, where he did a stint on the soap opera "Another World." He also once worked as a personal trainer in Los Angeles.

A question popped into Christensen's head.

"What show would I like to watch?" he says.

Answer that one, he figured, and it might just be what others would like to see as well.

Christensen worked on a documentary years ago following Dale Earnhardt and other NASCAR drivers around. Like everyone else, he noticed the growing trend of so-called reality TV, blockbuster successes like "Survivor," "American Idol" and "Fear Factor."

Christensen conceived "Pinks," which will combine racing and reality.

In his imagination, he envisioned two drag racers squaring off with more than bragging rights at stake. Winners would get those, but they would also get the loser's car. The title. The pink slip.

"I thought how cool would it be out on a country road and I hold their title," he says.

But, given the devotion of drag racers to their rides, would anyone accept the "Pinks" challenge?

"We put up a $50 Web site and were up to 11,000 visits in about three weeks," Christensen says.

Taping began in California and several episodes are in the can. Christensen is the show's creator, executive producer and host."

 

I almost forgot about that gay hummer he drives. They really needa get that fucker off of there and get someone that actually knows something about cars and draggin.

 

And see Johnny I thought of that too, but he's always standing right in front of the tree and I'm sure a lit tree is easier to see than his dumbass.

 

I never gave a shit about the host, I'm just watching it for the racing...his "tech advisors" aren't all that great either, but screw it...just watch the damned show...can't please everyone all the time...

 

I remember going to Mokan Dragstrip down in Joplin MO when Les Shockley was there with the 3jet eng. diesle. Shit, when he took off, he blew the tree over & scorched the little box there behind the tree. Too bad the producers wont have baldy kickstarting a real race like that. Thinking back, I think Shockley was pushing the truck really hard to beat Garlits. Too many good races at Mokan to remember. But baldy could loose the nose & ear hair very easily that way. hehehe Carl Hagan here in KC.

 

Wow! Say what you will about the guy, but he created this show from nothing with no one's help, produces it and is the host. Do any of you think that is EASY?? If so, why didn't any of you DO it?!
Yup, the show has some issues but DANG, he did it all himself. That's pretty cool in my book!

Dave

 

I agree, he deserves some credit for that at least...there should be a HAMB shootout on PINKS...I'd love to see that...

 

Okay, I'll see to it that the annoying host with bad taste and no class gets credit for starting, selling, and producing a contrived, sensationalized, overly-dramatic TV series about drag racing that often cuts to a commercial just before the cars get to the finish line.

Dave
http://www.roadsters.com/

 

hahaha, but apparently you still watch it...if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be able to bitch about the show, and it's still a half assed decent show compared to the rest of the crap that's on TV *cough*American Hot Rod*cough*

 

Yeah that's cool that he started it from nothing and works hard on it..

However out of everything he has given the show, he neglected to give it a quality host.

 

I'm not into watching 29 minutes of drama and commercials to see less than a minute of racing.

 

I have to admit I watch the show, but my main complaint is that the guys hardly ever run the car as fast as they will go. They just yell at each other during the negotiating and say you lifted or you're sandbagging or my nitrous isn't hitting, so we never see what the cars are really capable of! With the exception of the brothers racing that was the best episode of "Pinks" that has ever been on. They ran their cars all out.

Jay