Re: Dread Scott on television!

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Right on, man!!! Thats really cool!! I think I'm gonna have to find someone 
that has cable or whatever i can see you on. What channel? what time? Let us 
know when you find out exactly!! Looking forward to seeing it!! once again, 
Congrats!!


>From: Scott Williams <sfwilliams@home.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Dread Scott on television!
>Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 08:50:49 -0500
>
>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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