jim_chung

iTrader: (2)

Warning: This is only a teaser!

Finally, after waiting for several months for the reruns to cycle through again, the episode involving an Fb build broadcast this morning. Now I only have to get it off my PVR and into a small enough file for you guys to view.

In case you have no idea what I'm jabbering about, War of the Wheels was a Toronto produced 1 hr long show where two teams had three days to rebuild a pair of near identical cars. The final products would be judged on appearance as well as performance. Instead of the usual drag race, the Fbs in this episode competed on an actual race circuit.

To my knowledge this is the only show along the lines of Monster Garage or Overhaulin' that features our car, really a jewel of a show and not widely seen outside of Canada.

Stay tuned!!!!

rx71king

iTrader: (6)

cool ....looking forward to seeing it

t_g_farrell

iTrader: (1)

jim_chung

iTrader: (2)

As promised, here's the first half of the episode. You can download the 33 mb Quick Time movie file from here:


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheels.mov


Jim

bikeboy23332

bad *** ! wheres the rest ?

jim_chung

iTrader: (2)

Here's Part 2:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart2.mov





Jim

Directfreak

iTrader: (2)

Thanks!

Any possibility of getting a higher quality vids?

statique

iTrader: (15)

that was a very good video

jim_chung

iTrader: (2)

I hear you Directfreak. These files are about 125 mB in size but the video quality is much much better. You can increase the window size with VLC significantly and not bring on pixelation.


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart1.m4v
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/WaroftheWheelsPart2.m4v



Jim

82transam

iTrader: (18)

Will definatly be dl'ing these tonight when I get home!

Thanks for sharing these!

Directfreak

iTrader: (2)

By the way - THANKS.

Two Turbocharged First Gens!!

WOOo HOOo!!

rotordogg

iTrader: (4)

Great show, thanks for sharing! Although it hurt to watch them tear apart two perfect interiors like that. Hopefully they went to someone who needs them rather than a dumpster.

PS I wonder if any of those guys are members on here?

RX-7 Chris

iTrader: (19)

cool show.

craaaazzy

iTrader: (9)

thanks for sharing. we have a similar show here in the states on SPEED but they are more geared towards the ricer crowd unfortunately. name does not come to mind. judges there suck too. this show is much better.

who knows what headlights were used by team RPM?

t_g_farrell

iTrader: (1)

What will play this under windows? The usual windows media player chokes on it.

I downloaded the lower res ones and they don't play in standard Xp windows either.
Not a videophile, so don't tell me to load some other crap software but thanks for the
suggestions.

Maybe I'll upload to picassa and see if it converts it something I can view.

probaholic1

iTrader: (1)

VLC player works great as well as GOM player

rotordogg

iTrader: (4)

download quicktime for windows www.quicktime.com

Percentage

iTrader: (7)

Very cool episode. Thank you for the upload

probaholic1

iTrader: (1)

Yeah, just finished watching it. Like it, was very awesome

boltispibe

I'll have to check this one out.

I saw an episode where they rebuilt a 240z... it was cool but a bit too much for my taste.

orion84gsl

iTrader: (5)

The guy that painted the yellow car is Joe, a second gen owner, sn classicauto. Chris is/was the owner of CP Racing. My understanding is they went out of business or closed up. They had a pretty bad reputation.

sa7

iTrader: (13)

I thought I heard that in the video too, when they introduced him at the beginning. It must be an old episode. Great show though.

rotordogg

iTrader: (4)

So I guess this show busts the myth about needing to break-in a brand new engine? Considering this engine was rebuilt, ported and had a turbo added to it and then it was raced the next day.

stofficer1226

Break in a motor the way it's going to be driven.

craaaazzy

iTrader: (9)

that's what mercedes told a dad's friend on his SL65.