4th Episode on this Sunday! - What's in Autogeek's Garage

[Mike Phillips]

4th Episode on this Sunday! - What's in Autogeek's Garage

The 4th episode of our second season of "What's in Autogeek's Garage" is on this Sunday at 11:00am Eastern Time on Fox Sports Network.

My special guest will be,

Ted Jones
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This 4th episode features the below owners and their cars...

Segment 1: Edward Thompson - 1950 Buick Special - Meguiar's Wash & Wax

Segment 2: Bob Juzwiak - 1967 Triple Saffron 442 - RaggTopp Products

Segment 3: Brad Leary - 1970 Ford Torino GT - Optimum Products

Segment 4: James "Blinky" Taylor - 1948 Cadillac Series 60 Convertible - Lake Country Buffing Pads

Commercials in order,

ARP Fasteners
Wolfgang
Pinnacle Natural Brilliance
Lake Country Buffing Pads
Menzerna USA
Flex Polishers
Blackfire
Autogeek
Meguiar's
"Off the Shelf" featured product = Meguiar's



Cars that will be on Episode 4

Ed's 1950 Buick Special
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Bob's 1967 Triple Safron 442 Convertible
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Brad's 1970 Ford Torino - The only 1970 Ford Torino ever sold with a Shaker Hood
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Blinky's 1948 Cadillac Convertible
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This is on Sundays at 11:00am Eastern Time and repeats on Mondays at 4:00pm Eastern Time on FSN


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[Mike Phillips]

***Reminder***


Episode #4 on this weekend!



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[BillyJack]

Another good episode, Mike!
Ted was a very good choice as a celeb guest. That guy knows his stuff.
I especially liked the segment suggesting Opti-Clean for matte paints, as it's an area of concern for many with today's matte vinyl graphics. You've been able to present the benefits of various sponsor's products without the typical overdone hype that is so common on TV. As a contrast, immediately following your show on Root was Sam & Dave's show, nothing but a 30 minute infomercial for a truckstop chain. I have the ultimate respect for Sam as a mechanic, but the format of their current show has put him and Dave in the roles of glorified pitchmen.
Congrats once again!

Bill

[Mike Phillips]

Thanks Bill,

Ed, the guy that owns the 1950 Buick was very wary about having his car on the show, he was apprehensive about letting anyone "touch" it as we talk about so often on this forum. That is how guys that own really cool cars often won't let anyone "touch" their baby because they don't know them and thus they don't trust them. It's all about earning a person's trust to work on Special Interest Cars.

Ed was like that but I'm happy to say I was able to convince him I wouldn't harm his car and now he's a good friend and I've earned his trust.


Ted is a walking encyclopedia about cars and the fact that he owned the IHRA or International Hotrod Association as well as a list of all kind of accomplishments


I shared some of Ted's and Butch's biography in this thread,

Behind the scenes pictures - TV Features for What's in the Garage? (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/off-topic/32946-behind-scenes-pictures-tv-features-what-s-garage.html)



Here's some more information on the backgrounds of Ted Jones and Butch McCall

Ted Jones Biography
When young 19 year old drag racer, Ted Jones, bought his local drag strip in Kettlersville, OH, he had no idea his life as a play-by-play sportscaster would change and thereafter revolve around the sport of drag racing until he retired.

After giving up his chosen profession of play-by-play sports announcer, Jones, who had immediate success with the 1/8 mile Kettlersville Drag Strip built a quarter mile track in Van Wert, OH, and then proceeded to purchase Muncie Indiana Dragway and Shelby Dragway near Sidney, OH.

After completing two IHRA national events at the Muncie track, Larry Carrier was impressed with Jones’ knowledge of the sport, and his management abilities, he persuaded Jones to sell his drag strips and move to Bristol, TN as IHRA Vice President and National Event Race Director.

While at IHRA Jones initiated many procedures that are still popular today such as,


Weighing the driver with the car
The pro ladders where 1 runs 16
Alternating lanes during qualifying
The use of blower restraint devices
Mountain Motor Pro Stocks
And conceived the pro Modified class
Jones also introduced drag racing to ESPN in 1982 and was retained by ESPN as a consulting producer and later a contracted ESPN announcer.

After 17 years with IHRA Jones left when new IHRA owner, Billy Meyer moved the sanctioning body to Texas. One year later he purchased the sanctioning body back from Meyer and moved it back to Tennessee. After partner Jim Ruth died, Jones sold his shares of IHRA to a group headed by Pro Stock racers Carlton Phillips and Jim Yates.

Jones wanted to stay involved with drag racing, and using his ESPN connections, founded the production company, Masters Entertainment Group, along with partner Butch McCall, the company proceeded to televise over 250 different drag racing, car related programs, marine shows, live events (boxing, basketball, etc.) programs per year including IHRA, NHRA, NMCA, NOPI, NIRA, AMA, AHDRA, Super Chevy Show, Street Rodder, In The Driver’s Seat, Chrysler Classic and many more.

Jones hosted the ESPN2 programs “Inside Drag Racing” for 12 years and the “Mothers Polish Car Show Series” for 10 years, retiring at the end of 2006.

Ted Jones holds an FAA Pilots License, USCG Captains License and FCC Radio Telephone License, and now works part-time advising Butch McCall with the Administration of the television production company. He has been married to wife Linda for 48 years and has two daughters, Lynda Faye, an attorney in Nashville, and Holly who resides in Bristol. Jones, who also hosts Pleasure Boater TV on two networks, likes to spend his spare time on his yacht when he is not entertaining his 4 granddaughters.

In 2007 Ted Jones was inducted into the Drag Racing Hall of Fame and named one of the ten most influential people in drag racing history.





Charles L. “Butch” McCall Biography
In 1984 working for Larry Carrier as the Media & Public Relations Director for the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) based in Bristol, TN Butch McCall started his motorsports career.

Butch worked for Ted Jones who served as Vice President of IHRA. Some of his duties included organizing and conducting Media/Press tours for the professional drivers competing in IHRA, writing press releases, the design and layout of national event programs, and overseeing the “Press Room” operations at each of the twelve (12) national events.

After one year, he was promoted to National Marketing Director and assumed all sales and marketing to promote the sanctioning body. This included finding and developing clients to purchase and sponsor IHRA’s Points Funds for eleven (11) categories, national events sponsorships, multiple shootout sponsorships for specific professional and sportsman eliminators. He was responsible for developing special programs such as “Official Vehicles”, “Official Auto Parts” and “Official Apparel” for the organization. One of the most important aspects of his job was the development of programming and sales with ESPN. Butch secured sponsors such as; Motorcraft, Ford, Chevrolet, Winston, Lorilard-Salem, Hardee’s, Mr. Gasket, Fel-Pro, Hurst Shifters, and many more.

In 1987 Butch was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of the Bristol International Raceway (BIR). He handled all aspects of the racing operation; negotiating contracts with Anheuser-Busch, ESPN, and Valleydale, coordinating each race with NASCAR Officials, pre-race promotions, overseeing ticket sales and distribution, all on-site hospitality, and all other duties associated with BIR.

In 1988 BIR was sold to the IHRA, Jim Ruth and Ted Jones. When Ted sold his interest in IHRA in the spring of 1990 he contacted Butch concerning establishing a national “Television Production Company”.

Butch and Ted entered into a partnership and formed Masters Entertainment Group, Inc (MEG). MEG has provided programming for several national television networks over our 22 year history such as ESPN, ESPN2, SPIKE, SPEED, OUTDOOR CHANNEL, VERSUS, ION, CSS, SUNSPORTS and FOX SPORTS NETWORK. Our primary networks have been ESPN, ESPN2, and FOX SPORTS. Butch and Ted were instrumental in the concept and development of ESPN2 and have supplied as many as 339 programs per year to that network.

Masters Entertainment Group continues to be one of the nations leading motorsports production companies focusing on behind the scenes coverage of major drag racing, car shows and independent automotive events throughout the U.S.


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[Mike Phillips]

***Reminder***


Episode 4 is on TV today at 4:00pm on Fox Sport Network


Or you can watch it over the Internet on YouTube here,


On YouTube: Episode 4 - What's in Autogeek's Garage - Season 2 (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/what-s-garage/49159-youtube-episode-4-what-s-autogeek-s-garage-season-2-a.html)



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[BillE]

YEA! I was able to watch 'live' this afternoon (no classes).

Have one quickie question, I've noticed in the past two shows you are not 'priming the pad'. Just a 'happy face' then attacking the paint. Is this just a time saver for the show? Saving product because of only doing a smallish area?

Good show as always!

Bill

[Mike Phillips]

Is this just a time saver for the show?


Bill


Time saver, a 30 minute TV show is 20 minutes of content... everything is compressed or reduced at least in this format with 4 cars per show. If a show were done where in 20 minutes were spent on a single car then a person could go into more detail for whatever the process and products were being shown.


Good observation...

Also, on the 1948 Cadillac owned by Blinky, on set the paint looks shiny but in person it's filled with swirls and scratches. Red is a hard color to pick up before and after differences and your camera people have to really be good at this in the first place with easy paint colors. When I watched this the first time I just didn't see the big difference or the "money shot" on camera but in person as the guy doing the buffing there was a big difference.

I talked to Blinky yesterday and he's game for bringing his Cadillac back for Thursday night "Show Car Makeover". So while to the average person the car looks good we all know what show car quality paint really means and his classy Caddy is a great candidate for a re-visit to Autogeek's Show Car Garage.



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[BillE]

Looking forward to seeing the Caddie AFTER a 'Thursday Night'.

I (kinda, was 60+ years ago) remember a friend of my folks that had a Cad of about that era, and the power windows just fascinated me to no end.

Thanks for the reply about priming...

Bill