IML: Old cars and TV shows

["Hugh & Therese" <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx>]

I was offered the chance a few years ago to have Mrs. Blueberry on some sort 
of horse power type TV show but I declined the offer.  My car is definitely 
not ready for the cameras, nor was it then.  I had visions of them drooling 
over the 392 Hemi and in a way I thought I might be hastening the demise of 
the breed by alerting more yahoos to where the engines could be found.

TV is odd.  They edit down what you tell them to a sound bite anyway.  My 
friend, who tried to get me to take part, has a Plymouth GTX.  He was so 
excited they were featuring his car.  They interviewed him and filmed it 
inside and out.  In the end it showed up in a montage for a second or two. 
They spent all their time on a Thunderbird and a 57 Chevrolet.  Go figure. 
Even in this world they go for high common denominator vehicles.  The 
thinking is that they would lose viewers running stuff about a car not 
everybody can recognize immediately.

Hugh 




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