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[Victoria Watcher]

that metal shaping looks like a crazy specialized skill.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 July 2021 - 04:43 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Not really into reality shows, but this seemed interesting.

 

 

 

 

Matt Sager of Mill Bay is a hunter, but not of the big-game variety. His specialty is cars and trucks — rusty, deteriorated ones that are abandoned and in need of rescue.

 

Sager finds these long-forgotten gems throughout remote areas of Western Canada, and saves them from abandoned barns, deep ravines and thick forests. It’s not simply the pursuit of these classic cars and trucks that makes what he calls his “extreme hobby” so interesting; equally impressive is the way in which they are located and extracted, with help from his team. And that exercise is what has Sager and Co. at the centre of Lost Car Rescue, a six-part series that premières tonight at 9 p.m. on History.

 

The easygoing team leader is joined on the series by a colourful cast: His brother, Steve Sager, who is the team’s mechanic; longtime friend Jessica James, who pilots the plane from which Matt locates the vehicles; Dave Mischuk, an autobody specialist who assesses the damage and cost of repair; and Lee Brandt, the crane operator whose mechanical arm plucks the vehicles from the jaws of Mother Nature.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...rothers-4948584

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 January 2022 - 11:03 AM.

[Mike K.]

In a climate crisis?

[Victoria Watcher]

It's recycling.  

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 January 2022 - 11:59 AM.

[Mike K.]

That's what Keurig said.

[Victoria Watcher]

Looks like the pilot is a laid-off Harbour Air pilot.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 January 2022 - 02:13 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Gearheads rejoice: Classic cars will descend on Victoria for Northwest Deuce Days July 14-17.

 

https://www.timescol...ted-fun-5385568

[Victoria Watcher]

Time travel: 1,250 shiny pre-1952 cars cruise streets of Greater Victoria for Deuce Days, starting today

https://www.timescol...g-today-5581726


Highlight event is on Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., when hundreds of Deuce Days participants will gather with their cars on streets around Victoria's Inner Harbour.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 July 2022 - 09:42 AM.

[Nparker]

Deuce Days is always a great event. I especially love that it is built around cars, something Victoria officialdom clearly hates, but the public loves.

[JimV]

Letter in the TC today.  I guess we should be thankful that idiotic slobbering is still permitted in our society:

 

Dinosaur car culture on full display

 

Deuce Days, a redneck celebration of toxic masculinity and dinosaur car culture, is the last thing Victoria needs.

Inviting this invasion of older white heterosexual males to parade their ­fetishized internal-combustion vehicles only perpetuates their notion of entitled privilege and the deeply entrenched interests of car culture, both of which Victorians have fought long and hard to put behind us.

Deuce Days belongs in a backwater hick town where these good ol’ boys hide from progress hoping for a return to the “good old days” when men were ­measured by the size of their car.

Glen Paul

Victoria

[Victoria Watcher]

redneck celebration of toxic masculinity and dinosaur car culture... invasion of older white heterosexual males 

 

 

 

 

Awesome.     

 

If only it was feminine gay females on bikes.

 

 

(Portia De Rossi on a bike)

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 July 2022 - 06:22 AM.

[Nparker]

That letter is meant to be satirical - right?

[JimV]

^If so, Glen Paul’s subtle satire rather escapes me.  Maybe he’s ramping up to run for mayor.

[Mike K.]

Glen must be a Harley guy.

[Nparker]

You mean Glen is hardly a guy.

[Mike K.]

Yeah, whatever. Old man yelling at clouds.

[Nparker]

More like woke man yelling at clouds.

[Sparky]

[Nparker]

I often think we are seeing the devolution of the human race and it's happening at a rapid pace.

[Victoria Watcher]

HERE is a 20-minute video for those that did not make it down.

 

https://youtu.be/D26GfgAiElQ

 

 

 

 

HERE is another video from this year.

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 August 2022 - 03:25 AM.