Does anyone watch Horsepower TV?

[jester111]

vibrant- I agree its entertainment, and id rather watch it than some of the other crap on tv but watching them just hurts it hurts so much! Actually those episodes are a rerun which ive already watch but dont worry i wont say a thing. Florida eh, must be nice! If i dont find a job by the end of the month im getting in my car and drivig to tampa for the tenth time and calling it a long permenant vacation.
carnut- two guys is more practical than hptv, sorry ive never heard of the show you mentioned 0-150-0 the programing up here is not up to par but then again nothing really is up here i like to call it ass backwards here, i cant drive my zed around the block without getting pulled over and now with the stang just wait and see.

 

[Car Nut]

jester111, sorry for the confusion on 0-150-0. It's not a show, but a special that Car & Driver did and I think they aired the show several times over two or three weeks. I'm not sure if they did one before, but it's a shame it's not done more often and sold on video or DVD. Interesting about the cop situation, I figured Canada would be more lax than here. Oops! Luckily there's plenty of stangs around here, so no one pays too much attention to them. Heck, there's just lots of everything and everybody here.....too many people and still growing.

 

[Mrgreen94gt]

HDS, the red one got stolen and stripped. They showed the car after the police found it. Those real nice cobra seats were gone, and the car was stripped bad.

An event like that should have screamed "project car!" on a show like that. They can tub out that Nova, or whatever it was, but they can't bring that car back to life?

 

[jester111]

carnut- cops here are should we say f***ed, young asses with a chip on their shoulder and thats not counting the women, if you get pulled over by a woman cop you might as well bend over cause your going to get it and get it bad even if you really didnt do anything honestly your screwed!!! The only good thing up here is guns usually stay in their perspective holsters for the most part its not a shoot to kill and if they live ask questions. As far as driving a hot rod well its a crap shot whether youll get pulled over or not. Some cruise nights to local car show are starting to pop up here and there, its been stale for a good 6-7 years where if you were caught driving the book would be thrown at you. I hate to say it but as much as i hate the imports its a good thing their around because the police are now focusing on them even if its box stock you get pulled over a ticket for something is coming. The more import idiots screw up the better for use atleast for now or until they classify us the same, its a vicious cycle. Last year I went to a local cruise night a 65 stang got stop at the entrance handed over three grand in tickets and traillered home, killed that show for the rest of the year. Either way if you attend a a cruise just look in the sky and smile for the cameras on the chopper flying over head the whole entire night! Frankly im sick of it!

 

[go.rei GT]

Car Nut, the 0-150-0 show you saw was their first (unofficial at the time), of three Supercar Challenge's (I get a subsription as a gift every year). They are always published in the Sep. issues. A Lingenfelter Corvette owned the other cars in performance and drivability in all three contests (LPE entered their twin turbo vette in the other two). They also entered a AWD 427 GMC Sonoma that went 0-60 in 1.9s. but it broke. The last two didn't have any mustangs, as the cost and performance went way up. They allowed any tuner to enter a car, however Saleen ect. probably weren't called. Last year sucked because they had a four-banger tuner thing instead (rsx's, evo's, wrx's ect.). They had to lower the test to 0-130-0 They used a stock 03 Z06 as a control, and none of the 4's could match it's performance even though they had thousands in mods. Not sure if they aired any of the others, but come next Sep...

Sorry so long, and Two Guys Garage= great show!

 

[Numbles]

Last year sucked because they had a four-banger tuner thing instead (rsx's, evo's, wrx's ect.). They had to lower the test to 0-130-0 They used a stock 03 Z06 as a control, and none of the 4's could match it's performance even though they had thousands in mods.

I remember that one. Some of the cars couldn't even get to 130 in the straight away. LOL.