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TEXAS 68 · 11-14-2003, 01:34 PM

Just wondering if anyone else is sad to see NASCAR end this weekend.(my wife is glad!)

orange72350 · 11-14-2003, 01:43 PM

no offense to anyone here, but im glad to see it go. i hate nascar. drives me up the freaking wall. Thats all thats ever on speed channel. It drives me bonkers. sorry

VTKidder · 11-14-2003, 02:00 PM

I'll miss it......

jamis · 11-14-2003, 02:01 PM

I'm in Miami now, waiting for someone to initiate the right hand turn

*67Fleetsidedream* · 11-14-2003, 02:10 PM

I am with orange on this. Some NASCAR is cool, but when it is the only thing on the Speed channel is no cool. the play CLASSIC NASCAR all the time. It would be nice to have more build ups and rally car racing with IMO is way cooler the NASCAR.

VTKidder · 11-14-2003, 02:22 PM

Granted, it may be on "too much", and I do get a little steamed when Inside NASCAR is on instead of American Muscle Car, or My Classic Car, but you've also got to look at the other side of it...as one of, if not the largest, and fastest growing spectator sport in the US, it is very easy to see why there is a lot of NASCAR on air.

When's the last time you saw someone driving down the road with a Shaquille O'Neal sticker in their back window? It's hard to drive home and not see the Earnhardt 3, or a 24, 8, 17, 20, 18, etc bumper sticker, or number in the window of the guy in front of you.

*dtlilly* · 11-14-2003, 02:26 PM

This weekends race is purely accedemic anyhow, since the championship was won last week. Maybe we will see some grudge right hand turns since it really doesn't matter. Might be good publisity for next year.

As for the speed channel, they are targeting a market segment that has money to spend. I myself can't get enough of the old races from yesteryear. It was real racing, not the watered down B.S. we have to endure today.

This is the last season for all American racing, next year the rice grinders will have a truck in supertruck, and the following season will have rice in regular Nascar. I may stop being a fan because of it, the older I get, the less tolerant to change I become.

**CPNE** · 11-14-2003, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by VTKidder
When's the last time you saw someone driving down the road with a Shaquille O'Neal sticker in their back window? It's hard to drive home and not see the Earnhardt 3, or a 24, 8, 17, 20, 18, etc bumper sticker, or number in the window of the guy in front of you.

I have a "Free Kobi" sticker on mine

**fine69** · 11-14-2003, 02:47 PM

I never understood how one can derive pleasure from watching cars drive around a track. BORING.

BtnkBndt · 11-14-2003, 02:48 PM

Nascar is a joke IMO. I used to be an avid fan but the last few years its all whimperin and cryin. Like a bunch of kids. Last years champ did it in fo the fans anyway. The marketing has turned it more into WWNASCAR. The way they fudge the rules for some and not others. If your going to have rules abide by em dammit. Its all about the profit margin. Just not the same anymore. I also remmember when the cars were really cars, you could go buy one just like it at the dealership down the street. Now its a roll cage and a shell, whats stock about it?

My wife won't miss it, she lives for it. She doesn't know push from restrictor plate. The fan base has gotten very wide. Have you ever checked for grease under the nails of todays fan, HAH! Not with those loafers and Polo shirts. Same thing as a spitshine biker, don't like em'.

bigblock73 · 11-14-2003, 02:59 PM

Boy, some of you guys sure have some issued with NASCAR.

I myself will miss it. I enjoy spending part of my Sundays watching NASCAR & football, with my fiance, who like both, as much as I do.

BtnkBndt, so what if the fan base has gotten larger...that is good for the sport. I myself have no problem seeing hot chicks in the stands without grease under their fingernails...quite honestly, I am not looking at their fingernails!

No matter whare you go, there will be fans/enthuisast(sp?) into something when they themselves don't actually participate or do that "something". I like watching football, but I don't play it...do you frown on me now because of that?

Just my .02.

-Jeff

TEXAS 68 · 11-14-2003, 03:01 PM

I guess I started a $hit storm,I am glad to read everyones opinion. I been a fan for long time and don't agree with all the changes, but my son and i enjoy it and 10 years ago i won't take a 9 yr old to a race. keep the feed back comming!

*dtlilly* · 11-14-2003, 03:03 PM

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Originally posted by BtnkBndt
Nascar is a joke IMO...Same thing as a spitshine biker, don't like em'.

Lol, that about sums it up in a nutshell. Talladaga used to be fun to go to. See more bare breasts and drink more beer than the whole year combined. Now the police are cracking down because of the new yuppy fans are complaining.

jmanz69 · 11-14-2003, 03:05 PM

Racing is racing. I like all racing to a point. Watching Nascar cars run around in a circle gets boring, but then it's the same for IRL, and CART too. I prefer F1, Rally, and SCCA racing. You know, more than just turning left. It makes it more of a drivers race. I wish NASCAR and IRL would have more road course races. Would make it much more interesting. I never watch a complete NASCAR race anyway, I fall sleep after about 20 minutes and wake up for the end. They show endless replays of all the crashes, so not like I'm missing anything. It will be nice to see some foreign competition in NASCAR. Might make them work a little harder. Kinda wish BMW or Mercedes would get into NASCAR to make them work harder.

paintpyro · 11-14-2003, 03:11 PM

I will definitely miss it.

and Tony Stewart will be back on top next year. You heard it here boys and girls.

lukecp · 11-14-2003, 03:32 PM

I am also not a NASCAR fan. It is too boring to watch on TV. I'm sure actually going to the speedway would be really cool though.

Drag racing is a far better sport. If is see drag racing on ESPN i will usually watch it.

Just My Opinion

Bustedup · 11-14-2003, 04:29 PM

I too am a fan of NASCAR and all motorsport of some sort. But, I can't sit and watch a 3 hour race, I have better things to do. What makes me a fan is being involved. I use my truck as a push truck at the local track and work on my friend Super Late Model. NASCAR has several levels and watching the top level may not be your game, but try taking in a race at a track near you. I bet you would like circle track racing better there then ever on TV.

No3Fan4Ever · 11-14-2003, 04:54 PM

I will miss it also...........Bustedup at least you rooted for the correct driver

**smitty62** · 11-14-2003, 05:02 PM

Do those of you who don't like NASCAR and SPEED realize there is a knob on your tv to change channels? Jus' wonderin'

landon4421 · 11-14-2003, 05:06 PM

Bustedup, I'm with you on the sitting and doing nothing for three hours ! I have the TV in the garage and I work on the trucks and watch it that way. mostly listening

I get out to the Watsonville speed way once or twice a year. nothing like getting dirt flung into your face by the cars as the fly by on the dirt track !

jamis · 11-14-2003, 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by yellow72custom
Drag racing is a far better sport

Its the same thing, but it nascar you get to haul ass on return lane and in the pits

bigblock73 · 11-14-2003, 05:55 PM

I can't understand...for those of you who like NHRA better than NASCAR, explain this to me.

In drag racing...all they do is race for a 1/4 mile (or 1/8 mile) over and over...with interviews and commentary in between. In NASCAR they race in circles (usually) over and over with commentary during that....there isn't much difference...so quit using this "boring" excuse for NASCAR just cause you like drag racing more.

-Jeff

jugernot · 11-14-2003, 06:01 PM

Don't say it to loud, my wife might hear. There is other Nascar showing that will keep us busy until the new season.

jcab · 11-14-2003, 06:04 PM

IMO, (which isn't worth much

) Nothing beats rally.

Just something about someone doing 80 mph down a curvy gravel road sideways around every corner, makes me wish I still had my celica!

Bustedup · 11-14-2003, 06:41 PM

Forgot one thing, watch out for them race cars cause they hurt plenty when they hit you!!!

11-14-2003, 01:34 PM	#1
TEXAS 68 Vortec in the works Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Spring,Texas Posts: 735	Sad Weekend Just wondering if anyone else is sad to see NASCAR end this weekend.(my wife is glad!) Attached Images __________________ 68? It's all figured out untill you get it apart. Is it Sunday yet??? 68 Project 68 SWB frame off/98 Vortec with stock FI/power everything. 95 ECLB 2500 with 346,000 on the clock(the original HD) 99 Lesabre-wifes ride 08 Crew Cab LTZ-All Mine 89 SWB 5/7 drop-Son's first ride.

11-14-2003, 01:43 PM	#2
orange72350 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Cold, Snowy High Level, Alberta Canada Eh Posts: 394	no offense to anyone here, but im glad to see it go. i hate nascar. drives me up the freaking wall. Thats all thats ever on speed channel. It drives me bonkers. sorry __________________ 2003 yamaha raptor. Stock, but it still hauls!!!! 2000 skiddo mxz 700. Camoplast 1.5 inch track, jaws twin pipes, b+b can, custom built and weighted clutch, wiseco piston, high comp heads. its very fast. wow. 72 c-10 longbox. Bright Orange. Brand new 350, rv cam, performer intake, qjet, headers, 2 1/2 inch exhaust into hooker areo chamber mufflers. Body work coming soon. "dont let yer mind wander, its to little to go places by itself." "Forget the herse, cause i'll never die"-ACDC Back In Black "If It's To Loud, Yer Just Too Old" "I Love Anything Fast Enough To Do Something Stupid In" "Instant idiot, just add beer!!""

11-14-2003, 02:01 PM	#4
jamis F.A.S.T. president Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 1,883	I'm in Miami now, waiting for someone to initiate the right hand turn Last edited by jamis; 11-14-2003 at 05:41 PM.

11-14-2003, 03:01 PM	#12
TEXAS 68 Vortec in the works Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Spring,Texas Posts: 735	I guess I started a $hit storm,I am glad to read everyones opinion. I been a fan for long time and don't agree with all the changes, but my son and i enjoy it and 10 years ago i won't take a 9 yr old to a race. keep the feed back comming! __________________ 68? It's all figured out untill you get it apart. Is it Sunday yet??? 68 Project 68 SWB frame off/98 Vortec with stock FI/power everything. 95 ECLB 2500 with 346,000 on the clock(the original HD) 99 Lesabre-wifes ride 08 Crew Cab LTZ-All Mine 89 SWB 5/7 drop-Son's first ride.

11-14-2003, 03:11 PM	#15
paintpyro Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Santa Fe Springs, CA,USA Posts: 1,579	I will definitely miss it. and Tony Stewart will be back on top next year. You heard it here boys and girls. __________________ 70 shortbed stepside "Schleprock" 350 w/TH400 rallys and BFGs -We can rebuild it, we have the technology-lower,shinier,faster

11-14-2003, 02:00 PM	#3
VTKidder Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Vermont Posts: 996	I'll miss it......

11-14-2003, 02:10 PM	#5
67Fleetsidedream Wiseass secured himself a BAN Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: MOON!!! Posts: 2,282	I am with orange on this. Some NASCAR is cool, but when it is the only thing on the Speed channel is no cool. the play CLASSIC NASCAR all the time. It would be nice to have more build ups and rally car racing with IMO is way cooler the NASCAR.

11-14-2003, 02:22 PM	#6
VTKidder Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Vermont Posts: 996	Granted, it may be on "too much", and I do get a little steamed when Inside NASCAR is on instead of American Muscle Car, or My Classic Car, but you've also got to look at the other side of it...as one of, if not the largest, and fastest growing spectator sport in the US, it is very easy to see why there is a lot of NASCAR on air. When's the last time you saw someone driving down the road with a Shaquille O'Neal sticker in their back window? It's hard to drive home and not see the Earnhardt 3, or a 24, 8, 17, 20, 18, etc bumper sticker, or number in the window of the guy in front of you.

11-14-2003, 02:26 PM	#7
dtlilly Account Suspended Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Shadow of Lambeau Field Posts: 5,597	This weekends race is purely accedemic anyhow, since the championship was won last week. Maybe we will see some grudge right hand turns since it really doesn't matter. Might be good publisity for next year. As for the speed channel, they are targeting a market segment that has money to spend. I myself can't get enough of the old races from yesteryear. It was real racing, not the watered down B.S. we have to endure today. This is the last season for all American racing, next year the rice grinders will have a truck in supertruck, and the following season will have rice in regular Nascar. I may stop being a fan because of it, the older I get, the less tolerant to change I become.

11-14-2003, 02:47 PM	#9
fine69 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Urbana,Ohio,USA Posts: 4,618	I never understood how one can derive pleasure from watching cars drive around a track. BORING.

11-14-2003, 02:48 PM	#10
BtnkBndt Pennyless Fool Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Forney,Tx Posts: 439	Nascar is a joke IMO. I used to be an avid fan but the last few years its all whimperin and cryin. Like a bunch of kids. Last years champ did it in fo the fans anyway. The marketing has turned it more into WWNASCAR. The way they fudge the rules for some and not others. If your going to have rules abide by em dammit. Its all about the profit margin. Just not the same anymore. I also remmember when the cars were really cars, you could go buy one just like it at the dealership down the street. Now its a roll cage and a shell, whats stock about it? My wife won't miss it, she lives for it. She doesn't know push from restrictor plate. The fan base has gotten very wide. Have you ever checked for grease under the nails of todays fan, HAH! Not with those loafers and Polo shirts. Same thing as a spitshine biker, don't like em'.

11-14-2003, 02:59 PM	#11
bigblock73 yeller Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Twin Cities Posts: 13,826	Boy, some of you guys sure have some issued with NASCAR. I myself will miss it. I enjoy spending part of my Sundays watching NASCAR & football, with my fiance, who like both, as much as I do. BtnkBndt, so what if the fan base has gotten larger...that is good for the sport. I myself have no problem seeing hot chicks in the stands without grease under their fingernails...quite honestly, I am not looking at their fingernails! No matter whare you go, there will be fans/enthuisast(sp?) into something when they themselves don't actually participate or do that "something". I like watching football, but I don't play it...do you frown on me now because of that? Just my .02. -Jeff

11-14-2003, 03:05 PM	#14
jmanz69 Careful, they attack... Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Waterford, MI, USA Posts: 1,107	Racing is racing. I like all racing to a point. Watching Nascar cars run around in a circle gets boring, but then it's the same for IRL, and CART too. I prefer F1, Rally, and SCCA racing. You know, more than just turning left. It makes it more of a drivers race. I wish NASCAR and IRL would have more road course races. Would make it much more interesting. I never watch a complete NASCAR race anyway, I fall sleep after about 20 minutes and wake up for the end. They show endless replays of all the crashes, so not like I'm missing anything. It will be nice to see some foreign competition in NASCAR. Might make them work a little harder. Kinda wish BMW or Mercedes would get into NASCAR to make them work harder.

11-14-2003, 03:32 PM	#16
lukecp Formerly yellow72custom Join Date: May 2001 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 7,531	I am also not a NASCAR fan. It is too boring to watch on TV. I'm sure actually going to the speedway would be really cool though. Drag racing is a far better sport. If is see drag racing on ESPN i will usually watch it. Just My Opinion __________________ '72 Chevy C10 Mild 350/TH350/3.07. Ochre/White. Old high school ride. '70 GMC C2500 '62 327 4bbl/SM465/4.56-geared Dana 60. White/White. Project or parts truck. '97 Saturn SL DD. 1.9/5-speed. 40+ highway mpg

11-14-2003, 04:29 PM	#17
Bustedup Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Kent, Wash Posts: 53	I too am a fan of NASCAR and all motorsport of some sort. But, I can't sit and watch a 3 hour race, I have better things to do. What makes me a fan is being involved. I use my truck as a push truck at the local track and work on my friend Super Late Model. NASCAR has several levels and watching the top level may not be your game, but try taking in a race at a track near you. I bet you would like circle track racing better there then ever on TV. Attached Images



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11-14-2003, 04:54 PM	#18
No3Fan4Ever Running on empty Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Roanoke, Virginia Posts: 1,033	I will miss it also...........Bustedup at least you rooted for the correct driver __________________ _____________________________________________ Tim We have two rules here at the Rock. Rule #1: No writing on the walls. Rule#2: Obey all rules 70 GMC Sierra Grande "Custom Camper" Longhorn 402 Big Block TH400 PS PB factory AC Posi; 94 Bronco XLT 302, auto;worn out daily driver

11-14-2003, 05:02 PM	#19
smitty62 Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,234	Nascar Do those of you who don't like NASCAR and SPEED realize there is a knob on your tv to change channels? Jus' wonderin' __________________ Stepsides look like real trucks! Smitty

11-14-2003, 05:06 PM	#20
landon4421 Life is Good ! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hollister, Ca. Posts: 1,992	Bustedup, I'm with you on the sitting and doing nothing for three hours ! I have the TV in the garage and I work on the trucks and watch it that way. mostly listening I get out to the Watsonville speed way once or twice a year. nothing like getting dirt flung into your face by the cars as the fly by on the dirt track ! __________________ '72 Chevy C10 4x4 shortbed "Project" '71 Chevy C10 2wd longbed "partsrunner" '91 Chevy Burb 4x4 "kidrunner" '14 Honda Accord Sport "commuter"

11-14-2003, 05:55 PM	#22
bigblock73 yeller Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Twin Cities Posts: 13,826	I can't understand...for those of you who like NHRA better than NASCAR, explain this to me. In drag racing...all they do is race for a 1/4 mile (or 1/8 mile) over and over...with interviews and commentary in between. In NASCAR they race in circles (usually) over and over with commentary during that....there isn't much difference...so quit using this "boring" excuse for NASCAR just cause you like drag racing more. -Jeff

11-14-2003, 06:01 PM	#23
jugernot Life, Be In It..... Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Novato, California Posts: 1,498	Don't say it to loud, my wife might hear. There is other Nascar showing that will keep us busy until the new season.

11-14-2003, 06:04 PM	#24
jcab I need more money.... Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Posts: 145	IMO, (which isn't worth much ) Nothing beats rally. Just something about someone doing 80 mph down a curvy gravel road sideways around every corner, makes me wish I still had my celica! __________________ Jay. '68 LWB C10 '74 Duster ("It's not Rusted out, it's been modified for weight reduction") '91 Civic '97 Saturn '88 Celica AWD turbo (R.I.P.) 273 hp Mustang Killer

11-14-2003, 06:41 PM	#25
Bustedup Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Kent, Wash Posts: 53	Forgot one thing, watch out for them race cars cause they hurt plenty when they hit you!!!

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