I did the same, except I was watching Daytona and switching when a
commercial came on.
I agree with your editorial, what a pos movie.
And to think I used to like Darren McGavin on that frontier show years
ago....
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Hill <Jim_Hill@chsra.wisc.edu>
To: 'JonLowe@aol.com' <JonLowe@aol.com>
Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 3:10 PM
Subject: RE: Speedvision Movie
>
>Jon Lowe wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if Speedvision actually showed the movie "The
>Challengers"
>> (Grand Prix racing with Darrin Mcgavin!) yesterday morning on The Lost
>> Drivein? It was listed in the daily guide as being on, but the monthly
>guide
>> also showed it as being on Saturday nite, but they had a different movie
>on
>> then. If it was on, did anyone record it? If so, would you mind letting
>me
>> borrow it to watch?
>
>It was on, and I watched bits and pieces of it, but don't remember the
exact
>time since I was trying to keep up with the 48-hour marathon of continuous
>"Leave it to Beaver" reruns on Nick at Nite . . . :-)
>
>I didn't tape it, and what I saw of it was REALLY terrible - even though
>it's got some 60's footage. One "race", for example, is pieced together
from
>footage taken at least four different tracks. Most of the race clips are
>each just a couple of seconds long and many are so blurred and/or quickly
>panned that you can't recognize car numbers or drivers. One driver
>mysteriously destroyed the same car three times in the same corner in a
>single race.
>
>For whatever that's worth,
>
>Jim Hill
>Madison WI
>
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