Pinks! (Pangks! if yer from the South.)
Wow, wow, and wow! I stumbled upon what is perhaps the best man-show on cable right now. The show: Pinks!. The channel: Speed.
Real grease-monkeys, wrench jockeys, and wannebe racers show up at various drag strips around the country, sign over the titles to their muscle cars to the show's producer and race for the rights to both pink slips. Watching the loser see their pride and joy ramped up on a trailer and hauled off is unbelievably satisfying. Does it get any better than that? As if that's not fascinating enough, the host is an intense looking mediator/bouncer host named Rich Christensen.
If you aren't totally hooked by just watching this 5 minute show preview, then check out this Q&A that Rich does. This cat is seriously intense. He strikes me like someone who started out as a really nice corporate sales jockey, then started lifting weights and mainlining testosterone and protein shakes, finally sold a TV show (starring himself) and who might go Point-Break-Swayze any minute.
If that isn't enough, hearing a redneck say he's 'gone race you and yers for pangks' is just plain dixielightfull.
Go to your TiVo. Program it now.
Comments
Despite them basically speaking another language
( "Oh man...he's got a 4 rider outlet sub flux capacitor station on his decktop block.." )
this show is like a pack of dingos peeing a circle around their car, then having a snarl off.
Great tele!!!
Posted by: Powder Puff Baja 1000 | June 9, 2006 10:20 AM
"flux capacitor"? What is this, Back to the Pinks Future?
Posted by: Ben | June 9, 2006 02:02 PM