Motorweek's first episode

"boredalways" (boredalway666) 06/11/2020 at 22:24 • Filed to: Throwback Thursday, MotorWeek, First episode, I'm Old

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Aired October 15, 1981.

I’m pretty sure I watched this on a 12" B&W when I was little.

Also, I can confirm that GM’s X-body recall on the rear drum brakes didn’t work. I had a used ‘81 Citation in high school and had to put 4-45lb plates in the rear hatch to keep the ass end from swapping places in the wet.

ranwhenparked > boredalways 06/11/2020 at 22:32

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Is it just me, or were their older reviews more through? Personally, I’d like to still see more decibel reading comparisons. 

Svend > boredalways 06/11/2020 at 23:04

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The first ever TopGear from 1977 .

So many people say TopGear is a mens only show, solely aimed at the male audience.

Where TopGear actually started out as an news segment and became it’s own entity, hosted by the show’s first ever presenter, Angela Rippon.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > boredalways 06/11/2020 at 23:40

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I had a work colleague once who owned an X-11 Citation...

He’d delight in showing us how he could literally LOCK UP the fronts and still get ZERO braking effort out of the rears.  It was a completely fukt GM design.  Awful

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > Svend 06/11/2020 at 23:41

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Jessica as the theme from The Very Beginning of Genesis.  Wow.

Svend > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 06/11/2020 at 23:55

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It’s been rejigged a few times over the years, often going back to the original piece.

Some things change, some stay the same while others return. 

boredalways > ranwhenparked 06/12/2020 at 00:14

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Probably right.  But looking back in hindsight, they were boring at the start 

boredalways > Svend 06/12/2020 at 00:17

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Bummer the complete first episode isn't available.  If you find it, please post it!

boredalways > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 06/12/2020 at 00:31

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Fun fact: A fter 3.5 rotations on ice, I missed striking 3 parked cars on the left side of the street but struck a mailbox on the right side. This after driving about 2 miles in an ice storm, over an interstate overpass, with black ice everywhere, and didn’t put a foot wrong. I just had to make a left turn a block up to drop my coworker off from our part time jobs.

...but my dumbass had to try and prove I had exper t car control doing 5 mph on a narrow street in a subdivision since we've made it that far without fail