"King of the street",ESPN2...Pinks ripoff!

Pinks, pimp my ride, o'haulin, unique whips? All ****! I haven't seen one i like yet. The one show with the pro wrestler hosting wasn't too bad. About as good as you could hope for. The rest are aimed at the general public, not car people. Hey, whatever rings the register. But, i don't have to watch them. I was asked to do one of those shows. I told the guy, let me know when it airs. I'll watch it and get back to you because you film guys seem to always ruin what this hobby's about. So, i watched the show, and didn't even call the guy. It was ***. When he called me, i couldn't stop laughing. The theme was 2 "matched" muscle cars with 2 teams putting on various speed equip. Well, the 2 muscle cars were datsun 240 Z's. They both got 4 barrels, matching cams, and a choice of painted or chrome header. ****ing dumb as a rock already? But wait, there's more. If your team's late in finishing the modifications, you're penalized a tenth of a second on the tree (1/4 mile) for each 10 minutes you're late. So, one team's late by 1 hour and 10 minutes. SEVEN tenths penalty, which is a life sentence in drag racing. You may as well be glued to the tree. Anyway, the other team, with a SEVEN tenths advantage RED LITES! Who in the **** leans on the tree that hard with SEVEN tenths in the bag?

 

Pinks=DUMB. Two guys with Fox body Mustangs. One accuses the other of being a hack or has-been. Hell, you can call me a hack anytime. Gives me good ground to ask for car lengths. But NOOOO, he gives lengths instaed of GETTING them and gets his *** handed to him. The announcer says, hey buddy, he slapped ya pretty bad. How many lengths ya asking for this time? He says, i don't need any lengths. Well, yes you guessed it. Gets his *** handed to him AGAIN! Can ya see a pattern, or do i have to tell you how it ended? Also, i seen dispute on jumping on the start. If you want to play it that way, use the ****ing Xmas tree you idiot. In a "flag" start as they use, a chase is a race. I leave early, and you're dumb enough to follow? It's "on" mo****er!

 

the concept would be more real if they raced for money instead of cars. The Pinks where they run a bunch of cars is closer to reality. Why would you risk a 50,000 dollar car, when a couple grand would feel good too. Way too much drama. The one show I watched, all the yelling and screaming could have handled with a baseball bat or a tire iron. Now that is negotiating.

 

My hunch is there's an "agreed" value on the cars. The show reimburses the loser THAT amount. That's my hunch based on how lacking in emotion the losers usually are. I'd be pretty pissed if i lost my race car in THAT joke of an environment

 

dont dislike me guys but i have a buddy who has won three cars on the show with his chevy powered fox body mustang, the wooly vega wagon and a tuner race car. and a gto . he sold the gto back to them ebayed the tuner and sold the wooly vega wagon for 12k , saw it at the good guys in arizona later that yr for sale again. and if you lose you lose.no reimbur*****t and you send the ***le to them 6 months in advance and dont get it back .. till you win... I do agree some of it is a pain but then I chose to watch it so shame on me i guess...but i just love drag racin

 

Those shows might be full of drama, but then again, they have THEIR car on the line... I could sorta see why people would be a little 'dramatic' when negotiating to not see thier car roll away on a trailer going to a new home...

My favorite car show was, oddly enough, Trucks! back when Stacey was the host. good tech and good variety of trucks done well. Why they ever went with the wrestler and the other guy is beyond me.

 

"IF" that's true, they got some real numbnuts on there. Some of those guys negotiate as if their car was only worth a dollar. Guy gets beat by TEN, and then asks for TWO cars in the next round? Somebody's full of ****. I ain't buying it for a second. The stupidity that goes on, and how EASILY some lose their cars just ain't right

 

for what its worth , dave who i was speaking of is actually part of a 11 man group who put that car together with a bunch of donated parts to see if it could be done, as for losing it it wouldnt have hurt any of them real bad to lose it, i think there is a lot of that on there these days

 

Uncanny! That's EXACTLY what i do. Whenever i get a little ****oo on my wrist, and i'm embar***ed, i RIP MY SHIRT OFF!

 

If that's how a lot of these guys are doing it I suppose it's cool. That would more closely resemble a 'race what ya brung' at***ude. As for the others who don't act like it hurts to lose a car or two, they probably have so much money or so many cars they'll never miss the ones they lose. Seems there's a lot of folks just burning away their money out there.