WHat's Freiburger up to?

[andy30thz]

As far as those claiming this was a success: when I logged onto the video feed that they said was at 6pm Central time (do these guys have a watch? it was at SEVEN, and that was the second time they screwed up the time of a "big announcement" on this trip), there were a whopping thirty-eight people logged into the video stream. That's not a lot of people considering the effort.

I am just busting your ass, so don't be offened.....
But I find it somewhat funny that you're kicking these guys asses all over the place for screwing this up, and yet you were one of the 38 people watching their video stream?

[TheSilverBuick]

The flip side to this is the constant up to date media versus monthly magazines. From what I've gathered, most the cars "Magazine" cars of years past were mostly cobbled together junk with short cuts galore. I haven't really followed magazine project cars much, but the ones I know about, the Disco Nova, Crusher Camaro, DF's recent wrapped impala convertible, are cobbled together to make an image but not much beyond that. That's magazine time, if something isn't right it can either be omitted or pushed to the following month. Now with the push of "real time" coverage on the internet, their mistakes get more readily known. With the deadlines pending each month, and the "quality" of builds before hand, I'm not surprised at all at the "sudden appearance" of failure after failure. I don't think it's recent, I think it's more apparent because the real time feed. If there wasn't the internet, they probably would of taken this trip anyways, then we'd of only read about the successes with very little emphases on the repeated failures, and it would be a couple months from now on a story about how a trip that started with Alaska as the destination and ended with they got a 1955 Chevy. Which actually sounds like an interesting headline story to me. But times are a changing.

As many times as I've yanked the engine out of my Buick, I'm glad I'm not the only one that regularly struggles. Rather it was Hot Rod's goal or not, the trials and tribulations relate more to me than perfected cars. Hmm, maybe DF should go back to Car Craft

[dieselgeek]

I am just busting your ass, so don't be offened.....
But I find it somewhat funny that you're kicking these guys asses all over the place for screwing this up, and yet you were one of the 38 people watching their video stream?

Great question. I watched the video because I wanted to see what was next. The video was a train wreck.

[andy30thz]

In the scheme of things stuff like this affirms how mother effing awesome guys like Ray Brock and Ak Miller actually were. In '68 they took their new Ranchero to Mexico and won their class at the first Baja 1000 with it. They had a map and big balls.

I'd love to know what a day in the life of Ray Brock was like! He HAD to have the same stresses as DF, but without the electronic help or hindrances. Were those guys stretched as thin for time as people are today? Or was it truly a different era?

[TheSilverBuick]

Electronics are a hindrance, IMO. Heck I find this in my industry. Things are expected so quick that no real time can be spent on the quality. Which is a crime. Sure we can do the work quicker, but will the result be as good? The electronic age I think has set our society up for unrealistic "instant" gratification expectations, and there are short falls as a result. I'm off topic though.

[Brian Lohnes]

A very different era. Martinis for lunch era.

[Bob Holmes]

Anyone that thought a couple of So-Cal shorts and flip flop wearing guys could throw a car together, drive to the great white north and then race it were drinking the kool-aid. Only experience can prepare you for that kind of cold and snow. Hell, my family spent one, that's right 1, winter in South Dakota and high tailed it back to So-Cal. And that was after we thought we were prepared after spending 5 years in Colorado. There is cold, and then there is COLD!!

Following along on this was like going up to Tahoe and watching the flat landers try to drive in the first real snow of the season. The wreck is gonna be there any moment.

Get out my lawn chair, this is going to be entertaining.

[cal67ss396]

Apperently he is into reusing titles from the same month every year. Feb 2012 on the left Feb 2010 on the right. I wonder if Feb 2011 had the same title.

[Brian Lohnes]

It could. There are scheduled books like the Paint and Body issue that is the April magazine every year. No boring cars is close to the old Dare to be Different issues but modernized.

[dulcich]

DF is pretty fearless and confident when it comes to old cars and hitting the road. Once I flew out with him to Kansas and we drove an old 65 D100 back. The guy selling it on Ebay figured it wouldn't even make it across town. We drove it all the way back to SoCal, fixing AKS along the way with minimal tools and virtually no prep - and no "support" vehicles. He insisted on secondary two-lane all the way back. The first year he hit Bonneville, it was one of these last-minute super multi-all-nighter thrash sessions, and we barely made it and then set two records. We flat towed to Texas and raped the Texas mile, getting good ol' boys to help us all along the way. Freiburger and Pewe drove a WWII Jeep back unseen and untested from Alaska, and a Grisly nearly ripped DF's guts out - no shit.

The only thing that I can figure out is that Finnigan is just a worthless pussy. Sure he can sleep in the passenger seat, and inopportunely break a window or two, but I have to blame that lame ass Finnigan for all of Frieburger's woes. Too much of a goofball. I think the sooner Freiburger loses that dead weight the better!
-dulcich

[68 Valiant]

I haven't read all what happened but I think they should make sure the car gets raced on ice somewhere. They could even have a stranger race it as a magazine promotion/give away!

[Mater]

Apperently he is into reusing titles from the same month every year. Feb 2012 on the left Feb 2010 on the right. I wonder if Feb 2011 had the same title.

i think it is i will check some time tomorrow have to dig my issies out i have every issue starting in 2007

[67pete300]

Flat-tow updates have slowed/stopped? Everything must be going swimmingly.... Or they are upside down in a snowbank on the side of a mountain searching the cab of the Raunchero for bits of beef jerky?

[Brian Lohnes]

Kinda of weird that it has been radio silence for like what, 12 hours?

[67pete300]

We used to have to wait a month for an update. Then we had to write a letter that might get addressed in a few months. Now we're pissed with no update in 12 hours. There's no going back. Welcome to social media!