Re: Dread Scott on television!

[jonas miller <sjmill@erols.com>]

damn dude first fashion modeling  adn now this  youa re born to be a
star...ccongrats man 
next thin ghe wil lbe doing is   Dread Scott for president 
			if you ever been in a car with scott you would now he is under
control(well sometimes) that part gets left out of you campaing slogan

j

Scott Williams wrote:
> 
> Shawn C Meze wrote:
> 
> > So what happened dude? Its been way more than 12 hours!
> 
> Okay, gents. Yesterday was a real blast. Anchorman, Howard Thompson (WPIX,
> New York City), came down with a film crew to check the Warpiggy and me
> out. Here's Howard's info: http://www.wpix.com/news/helpme.htm
> 
> Anyway, they pulled up to my house at about 12:30pm in a white Chevy
> Caprice. Heh, I thought that I was about to get arrested or something, but
> that kind of fun would have to wait 'till later. :^) After the
> introductions and some preliminary discussion about how the shoot was
> finished, we headed over to a little stretch of gravel road on the other
> side of my neighborhood. The camera man was totally bent out of shape about
> the nasty weather, but I was pretty stoked about it! Slippery -wet gravel
> -woo hoo!
> 
> We unpacked the cameras and mic'd up. Howard interviewed me for about three
> minutes with questions about what kind of marketing help my team effort can
> help sponsoring busineses with, what rally racing is all about, etc.  The
> camera guy then took some faked shots of me shifting, "steering", heel and
> toeing, etc. Once that was all done I suited up in the OMP nomex suit and
> buckled myself and Howard into the five-point harnesses. The plan was to
> drive up the road a little bit and then come back around a hot corner for
> the camera. Well.... in my "I'm a big tv star" exuberance, I dimwittedly
> drove around the first corner, understeered the car, and planted us
> directly into a deep silt-filled ditch! SPLAT! :^( ...dumb, stupid, dumb,
> stupid, dumb...
> 
> The powerslide into it felt pretty cool but the hour and fifteen minute
> wait for AAA to show up wasn't nearly as much fun! :^) Well, there was no
> harm done to the car or the passengers -excepting my bruised ego... Howard
> thought it was hilarious which definitely made things easier to deal with.
> Anyway, after our extrication we set up again and performed some pretty
> nice slides for the camera. Even with a 200lb television reporter in the
> passenger's seat, the Warpig's acceleration was pretty decent -enough to
> impress the guy, anyway. "Let's do some tarmac!", he said. Right on...
> 
> So, off we went across a couple of towns to a paved section that rivals in
> the Manx Rally with it's tight twists and hills. Last winter's NJ Scirocco
> cruise covered some of these same roads so y'all that attended should have
> a good idea of what we were driving on. This time however it was raining
> hard and wet leaves were all over the place. Heh heh... The Pig was shod
> with Dunlop SP8000s the whole time, so it felt more in it's element on the
> pavement and the show I put on was at a decidely higher caliber.
> 
> We filmed the car rushing steeply downhill towards the camera at 75+mph,
> down shifting from 5th down to 2nd -bwaANahh... bwaNahh.., -setting up for
> the corner, rotating slightly, apexing into a big puddle of water -SPLASH!
> - and then accelerating out with the wheels spinning madly, clawing for
> traction that wasn't there on the wet leaves
> -screeegrraaAANNHHHscreeraANHHH..!!! An in car camera was mounted between
> the two of us on the roll cage, too. It mainly caught the action inside the
> cockpit and the horizon disappearing from view when we caught air a couple
> of times. Yeeehah!!!
> 
> Anywho, we did about ten takes of the car hurtling around various corners
> until the brakes were glowing a very dull red and the clutch was stinking
> like hell. Man, tarmac roads are just soooo much harder on the car than
> dirt and gravel. By that point we felt that we and the car had taken enough
> abuse so we called it a day. Wow, what a bunch of fun!
> 
> The segment will air on the 10 o'clock news in about two weeks so, I'll let
> everyone know the exact details later. Check this out, though. Howard wants
> to produce a regular program on rallying and guess who might be his roving
> field reporter! That's right, moi'. :^)
> 
> Heh, yesterday worked out pretty well!
> --
> Scott F. Williams
> NJ Scirocco nut
> SCCA ProRally driver
> Hotrod Rabbit GTi
> 
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