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June 24, 2009 4:12 a.m. BobOfTheFuture Reader

Inspired by "Rusty_Rabbit84" and his thread "Will this be an alternative to speed?"

What shows do you people enjoy that are about cars/racing, but not on SPEED?

Honestly, I had no idea there were that many...

All I know about are: ESPN's Indy, nascar and drag coverage

Fox's F1 coverage.

What I belive to be a local channel, "WVVH" that shows something like GP2 but with cars that are called by the country they are from, with Ferrari engines I belive... Marco Andretti is in the American car. The name escapes me.

BBC's Top Gear, obviously...

Anything else?
June 24, 2009 5:09 a.m. foxtrapper SuperDork

As one who does not have cable or satellite TV, I'm restricted to Motorweek on PBS.
June 24, 2009 5:39 a.m. 2002acr New Reader

A1GP is what you are trying to remember. Motorweek isn't bad, good car reviews. Although they are never going to bash anything that they test. I like seeing 75-80 Dragway on TV. It was the first drag strip I went to many years ago.
Speed pissed me off enough to drop that portion of my DirecTV service. I do not miss it.
June 24, 2009 6:11 a.m. Rusnak_322 New Reader

There is a British show called Wheeler Dealers where they buy a iconic car from the 1980's and fix it up on a budget and then try to sell it for a profit. They did a 924, a Miata, a E30 wagon, and recently a Alfa spyder.

There is another show called Kit Car. It is a horrible and the cars are not very good, but I like to watch it. The best was when they had a kit Lambo Diablo vs a real one and they put them both on a dyno. The dyno operator and the real lambo guy didn't know the car was all wheel drive and tied the front tires down.
June 24, 2009 6:43 a.m. John Brown SuperDork

Rusnak_322 wrote:

There is a British show called Wheeler Dealers where they buy a iconic car from the 1980's and fix it up on a budget and then try to sell it for a profit. They did a 924, a Miata, a E30 wagon, and recently a Alfa spyder.

There is another show called Kit Car. It is a horrible and the cars are not very good, but I like to watch it. The best was when they had a kit Lambo Diablo vs a real one and they put them both on a dyno. The dyno operator and the real lambo guy didn't know the car was all wheel drive and tied the front tires down.

Nice
June 24, 2009 7:12 a.m. RossD Reader

Most of the car show I watch are either on Discovery or Discovery HD Theater. Chasing Classic Cars, Why We Race, Twist the Throttle, Classis Car Club, Wheeler Dealers....etc. Check here.

I rarely even look at Speed, but I am more into the engineering said of cars than the motorsports aspect. My favorite show is Chasing Classic Cars or Wheeler Dealers. Both have a similar focus but completely different budgets; like millions of dollars or a couple thousand pounds, respectively.
June 24, 2009 10:32 a.m. Appleseed HalfDork

"Rides."

Hands down.
June 24, 2009 10:36 a.m. Rusty_Rabbit84 HalfDork

Appleseed wrote:

"Rides."

Hands down.

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