ANNOUNCERS at BARRETT--JACKSON!!!

[mhassett]

These guys are BAD--they thought a '63 Fuelie CORVETTE that just brought $137,500 -- they said it was RARE because it had a Wide Chrome Molding on the lower body!!! Last night they didn't know what the AIR system was on a Corvette, somebody e-mailed them the answer.. They were looking at the COPO Chevelle and couldn't figure out if they had aluminum heads or not, they said they couldn't tell because they didn't have a magnet!! They should have somebody qualified to be discussing and commenting on the Muscle Cars and the Vettes.. GOD Forbid if any Muscle Car is Green they hate it but if it is a Jaguar they love it.. What do you guys think??? Mark

[SamLBInj]

Thinking the same same thing last night, Idiots, the AIR comment and discussion was rediculous...These guys are bad and should be replaced. They are making Barrett- Jackson look like fools.
Hey, Maybe Charley could step in, Be fun to see him make fools of those guy's
Sam

[jfkheat]

These guys are doing a good enough job making fools out of themselves. Did you see when the black 58 Chevy convertible came up. They were saying that the 58 weren't as popular as the 55-57s and it wouldn't sell for nearly as much as the 57 convertible. If I remember correctly the 57 sold for $102,000 and the 58 brought $104,000.
They were trashing the green COPO Camaro. Someone told them that the COPOs weren't about the color of the car and interior but about what was under the hood. They definately need someone that knows a little about muscle cars.
James

[MrsBillyBobcat]

OMG!!! They definitely need someone who knows AMERICAN cars! One of the first cars that went through on Thursday night was a "Panther Pink" Challenger. The announcer called it "<font color="purple">PLUM CRAZY</font>"!

Thank God I have my own personal "commentator" (my husband ). He's constantly correcting them, LOL!

Rita

PS~ How many of you guys have "AL-YOU-MINIUM" heads under your "bonnet"?

[JoeC]

Next time I need to fill my PET TROL tank I’ll clean my WIND SCREEN then pop the bonnet to see if my LUMP has the "AL-YOU-MINIUM" heads

[mhassett]

Mark

[musclcar]

yep they need better anouncers/commentators i to can't believe how they're misleading the viewers.i wish i could have seen the copo car though

[442w30]

Agreed!

One thing I will give them credit for, though, was a comment on a custom. It had a 350/auto and they said it could bring more with a different combo cuz its power was so generic in the custom scene.

The descriptions of the cars there are horrible, full of misleading info or just plum wrong. One Panther Pink Challenger is a clone that was originally brown, but there is no mention of it in the info there.

Do any of you know the real story on the yellow Z/28? I assume documentation including the cross-ram and disc brakes, but $112 grand?

[427TJ]

Well the British guy, Alan DeCadanet, is really good on the Speed Channel series "Victory by Design." But on that show he's scripted and errors in his knowledge are corrected before the cameras roll. At B-J he just rambles and babbles and gets alot of things wrong. I suppose it can be challenging to have to continually comment on live TV about various cars but some of their comments and opinions are better left unsaid. Brock Yates was kinda' snarky today too. I agree, Speed definately needs better commentators when it comes to B-J coverage.

[Don_Lightfoot]

I'm going to send them my resume, this has indeed reached the ridiculous stage

They should have someone like us to fill in whenever an American Muscle Car comes on and let the English Bloke take a break. His biggest excitement on Saturday was all the time he spent in the trunk of some foreign car unwrapping and giving exciting descriptions about the car's matching luggage - DUH

I realize most of you guys don't know me that well, but can I put you down for references on the resume?