Barrett Jackson is on fire

[StealthBird]

I too just DVR the thing and fast forward. I stop and watch the cars I'm interested in, and cringe at the comments the commentators make.

Did anyone notice how Mike Joy seems to touch something on every single car? Steve Magnante is a true car guy, he points to items or features, but does not make physical contact. Mike Joy is one of those guys that rubs, picks, or strokes every part of the car he's talking about. Obviously, Mike Joy doesn't understand car guy etiquette. He's probably one those guys that walks into an art museum and touches a painting as he describes what he likes and doesn't like about it.

There was an old pre-war oil/grease delivery truck that had an over-the-top museum quality resto, and when the camera hit Mike Joy, he mentioned where the supplies were kept on the truck. He grabbed the huge slider latch on the back door of the truck and tried to open it (?#!@#), but it wouldn't budge. He said it must have been painted shut. Seriously? The paint job on the latch and slider assembly was show quality, perfectly aligned, and I'm sure had never been opened.

I stopped my DVR to watch a 1969 Trans Am on the block. I shook my head as the commentators once again got everything wrong. They said this one had the "rare optional Ram Air III engine" (that was the standard engine), that all 69 Trans Am's were white with Lucerne Blue stripes (they're not Lucerne Blue), and they pointed to the repop window sticker and said the Trans Am option added $400 to the price of a 69 Firebird. The Trans Am option added over $1000 to the price of a Firebird, they were looking at what the Trans Am option consisted of. On top of that, the Trans Am they were talking about was supposed to be a low mileage original, but had obviously been restored. They missed painting the wing pedestals blue, it had a completely incorrect gray master cylinder, was missing the power steering cooling line, and the seats were obviously a new material as they didn't match the door panels.

Oh well, I still enjoy watching, but just with the DVR... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]