ANNOUNCERS at BARRETT--JACKSON!!!

[Jeff Murphy]

Anybody seen the movie "Best in Show"? If you think these guys were bad you should rent this very funny movie about a prestigious kennel club dog show...

[Dave Rifkin]

Someone needs to smack Brock Yates; from his ridiculous comments about the COPO's to his bashing the GTO's that were built after the 389 equipped cars. What an idiot. Oh, and how about the guy who swore the exhaust from the AAR Cudas and T/A Challenger ran back over the rearend and returned to exit in front of the rear tire I realize nobody's an expert but come on.

[GOAT72]

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Oh, and how about the guy who swore the exhaust from the AAR Cudas and T/A Challenger ran back over the rearend and returned to exit in front of the rear tire I realize nobody's an expert but come on.

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Wasn't that Mike Joyce? (Name?) He's a NASCAR announcer and he was all over the cars. Did you notice he kept touching the paint and running his fingers over chrome pieces?

If I was a seller/buyer, I'd make the guy WASH my car afterward!


If you watched the show while logged-on to the Net, you could tell the announcers were reading info right off the Barrett-Jackson.com website!


Goat72

[MosportGreen66]

Someone asked e-mailed and asked if the announcers were interested in any cars. The guys both agreed their wive's were stopping them from making any transactions but we all know lack of knowledge is the real reason.

[427TJ]

Alan de Cadanet was also opening hoods and pawing cars as they came on stage. He clumsily fiddled with that Hemi Superbird's hood and finally got it opened. The other guy, Mike Joy (I think it's "Joy") also smeared his DNA on several cars. Maybe there's an agreement to allow the TV guys a bit of free-reign with the cars for the sake of the TV coverage.

If Alan de Cadanet says "zed-f" one more time I'm gonna' mute the TV for the rest of the auction. Okay Alan, we get it, you're from England and you speak 'proper' english. Okay, it's not a "ZF" gearbox in the GT-40, it's a "zed-f" box. (Please, no offense intended toward our well-spoken bretheren from across the pond!)

Okay, "Victory by Design" is on, gotta' run!

[GOAT72]

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Alan de Cadanet was also opening hoods and pawing cars as they came on stage. He clumsily fiddled with that Hemi Superbird's hood and finally got it opened. The other guy, Mike Joy (I think it's "Joy") also smeared his DNA on several cars. Maybe there's an agreement to allow the TV guys a bit of free-reign with the cars for the sake of the TV coverage.


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Yes, Mike "Joy" it is, thanks!
I thought of an interesting skit for SNL, where you bring in a shiny musclecar (that's headed for a new paint job) and mimic the B-J auction announcers as they scratch, slobber, drip, spill and otherwise totally maim the paint job on the car.

They'd be totally oblivious to the damage they were inflicting and would continue to paw all over the thing as they described it in detail.

I would be hilarious to the thousands in our hobby, but to the Gen Pub it would probably be misunderstood.


~GOAT72

[427TJ]

Yeah, and get Keenan Ivory Wayans to play his homeless guy character from the old "In Living Color" TV show. You remember--he had raggedy clothes and carried a jar of his own urine with a 'pickle' floating in it:

"Saaaay man, that's a nice car! Lemme' check it out--OOPS!" (Sound of broken glass and a splash.) "Oh man, lookit the paint--the stuff in my jar's makin' it bubble up and come off!"