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Month: April 2016
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ABC Sports’s coverage of the Detroit Grand Prix, starting in 1992.
Personally, I’d rather that CBS held onto the rights to the Detroit Grand Prix a little longer.
Below are videos of ABC’s coverage of the 1992, 1993, and 1994 Detroit Grand Prix(s).
Video of ABC’s coverage of another Indy Car race that ABC had the rights to as of this time, the Australian Grand Prix; in 1993:
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Videos of CBS Sports’s coverage of Formula One and Indy Car races.
This is one of the rare times that CBS Sports had the rights to televise a Formula 1 race. Other times when CBS Sports had the rights to televise a Formula 1 race were the 1981 United States Grand Prix West, the 1983-1991 Detroit Grand Prix(s); and the entire 2005 Formula 1 season.
As expected, CBS had used Ken Squier to call this race; because of Ken’s wealth of knowledge in calling motorsports events.
See earlier posts regarding Ken Squier for more on his announcing career:
Another Ode To CBS’s Telecasts Of NASCAR Races
Editorial Photos From Behind The Scenes Of CBS’s NASCAR Coverage
CBS’s coverage of the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix. Again, CBS had used Ken Squier to call this event.
CBS’s coverage of the 1986 Detroit Grand Prix. And again, CBS had used Ken Squier to call this event.
CBS’s coverage of the 1987 Detroit Grand Prix. This time, CBS had used Chris Economacki, who had recently moved to CBS after a long career with ABC Sports; to call this event.
CBS’s coverage of the 1989 Detroit Grand Prix. And CBS had used Ken Squier this time.
CBS’s coverage of the 1990 Detroit Grand Prix. CBS had used Chris Economacki this time.
CBS’s coverage of the 1991 Detroit Grand Prix. CBS had used Ken Squier for their last year of holding the rights to the Detroit Grand Prix before ABC had gained the rights a year later in 1992.
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Commercials from Japan and the United States for the S12 Nissan SX/Silvia/Gazelle.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Nissan SX/Silvia/Gazelle, it was Nissan’s competitor to the Toyota Celica.
It was part of the corporate mentality of Nissan and Toyota competing head-to-head with each other, such as Nissan building the SX/Silvia/Gazelle to compete with the Celica; and Toyota building the Supra to compete with the Z-Car.
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Maybe NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson should be transported by yours truly in a Z31 Z-Car, and come into realization that cars like the Nissan Z-Car, Toyota Supra, Mazda RX-7; and any Volkswagen/Audi, including and especially the Sirocco/Corrado are more important than getting married, gaining new in-laws, starting a family and having children, anything fitness-related, dressing to the nines, going to church; and the major changes that have occurred to NASCAR since the beginning of the 21st century.
Ideally, Jimmie Johnson would be transported in a Z31 Z-Car with one of the turbocharged variants of the Nissan VG engine-the VG30E.
These commercials for the Z31 Z-Car from Japan and the United States ought to stir any emotion in Jimmie Johnson’s mind about this vehicle.
I think it would be a very pleasant and delightful experience for Jimmie Johnson to hear the Nissan xylophone-sounding “ding dong” chime when the ignition is turned and the engine is started up, the voice warning system; and the sound that a Nissan engine typically makes when they crank up.
And Jimmie Johnson should also ponder over all of the engineers employed by Nissan in Japan assigned to work on the Z31 project prior to it’s release in 1983, how much time and money Nissan had spent developing and testing the VG engine before the engine itself had gone into production in 1983; and Kazumasu Togaku being appointed the chief stylist for the Z31 project.
Last, Jimmie Johnson should ponder over Nissan’s corporate philosophy in comparison to Toyota’s corporate philosophy-such as Toyota building the Supra to compete against the Z-Car.
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A 78 passenger Front-Engine TC/2000 like what John Roeck buys 10 years earlier than when this particular one was built, instead of the Ward President transit style School Buses on the GM S-7 stripped chassis in “Early Life And Continuous Livelihood”.
1999 School Bus – Montgomery County Public Schools Surplus
Source: Public Surplus: Auction #1576648
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There are plenty of homes on large plots of land near the Wayne School Bus body assembly plant in Richmond, Indiana; as the plant is located in the rural vicinity of Richmond.
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The Wayne School Bus body assembly plant in Richmond, Indiana.
When Wayne had gone out of business in 1995, Carpenter had purchased the plant, had moved of their historic home in Mitchell, Indiana and into the former Wayne plant in Richmond.
When Carpenter had also gone out of business in 2000, the manufacruing complex and offices had been sold off in sections rather than as a whole.
A newspaper article about Wayne and it’s former plant in Richmond:
http://www.pal-item.com/story/news/local/2015/02/22/wayne-works-workers-sought-interviews/23840897/
The former Wayne factory repair facility:
A 1973-1991 GM pickup truck driving by where the Wayne plant is:
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The Carpenter School Bus body assembly plant in Mitchell, Indiana:
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Thomas School Bus body assembly plant in High Point, North Carolina:
Same area of the manufacturing complex as of 2009:
An Oldsmobile-branded GM B-platform station wagon in the employee parking lot of the complex:
A Ford F-600 Medium-Duty truck as a box truck and an International Harvester/Navistar Class 8 tractor-trailer Heavy-Duty truck:
A building that looks like it was constructed in the 1930’s:
Another building that looks like it was constructed in the 1930’s:
These older buildings were in use during the time the photo below was taken:
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The Ward/AmTran/IC Corp School Bus body manufacturing facility in Conway, Arkasnas:
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