Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Subs at the dump

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@Sun.COM>]

Hi,

Me and my family love Junkyard wars! Here are a few links if you are
interested:

http://www.channel4.com/plus/scrapheap2000/findoutmore.html
http://www.junkyard-wars.com/
http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/junkyard/junkyard.html

It started out as an English production with six regular players split into
two teams of three each on a show called Scrapheap Challenge. Since then it
has graduated into multiple 4 man teams competing against each other.

During the third season some American teams played in England. Then
it came over here in the states and is now being played here. 

The name was changed to Junk Yard Wars to package it toward the American
market.

Yes the junk yards are seeded. Sometimes un-seeded. Like when they needed
steam boilers. The players couldn't build their own for safety reasons so
the producers seeded with real boilers and had the certificates of 
some sort on hand for each boiler.

Regards,
Ray
 
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:14:27 -0500
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> From: David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Subs at the dump
> 
> At 15:08 -0400 06/04/01, Michael B. Holt wrote:
> >Ray Keefer wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> If you look at the earlier episodes you can see it as they buzz out into
> >> the junkyard with the quads on their scanvaging runs. It is a saucer in
> >> shape. I took it for some kind of North Sea life boat of some kind.
> >
> >Yes, that's the shape of the life boats on oil rigs.  That's easier
> >to accept than a sub.
> 
> Well, the show's host was narrating and specifically called it a "submersible" 
which was no longer seaworthy but had useful parts on it...
> 
> It seemed to  be red and roundish with one part of the roundness being 
interrupted by a flattened off sort of place or maybe a fin sticking off, sort 
of like a Jetsons car.
> 
> As far as I know, the show's "junkyard" is in England somewhere. I'm skeptical 
that it's a "naturally occurring" junkyard, though. Maybe it started as one, but 
surely it must have been seeded with lots of useful goodies. Just look at the 
frequency with which old cars and motorcycles the teams find start right up. And 
the high concentration of brass propellers. And exotic stuff like submersibles 
and airliner seats and jet engine parts. I think I saw a whole small plane 
fuselage once. It's like the most elite and wondrous junkyard ever; a dream 
junkyard.
> 
> -- 
> David
> Osage MN USA - buchner@wcta.net