Junkyard wars was [rescue] Sun Ray Thoughts?

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yes and no on your suspicions..   Yes, obviously needed materials are 
planted in the junkyard, but the time limit is also adheared to for the
teams, within a set of parameters..

The team must do all the major building within the 10 hours.  But then there is
a safety day before the actual competition where different engineers will inspect
the vehicle or whatever was made, and they will do any safety issue fixes.  What
this boils down to, is the team can just tack-weld a steering wheel in place,
and the safety team will put a good weld on it the next day.  But the safety team 
cannot make any changes that change the look of hte product, else thier work also 
become obvoius..

How do I know this?  Ran into a guy at a machinegun shoot with one of those
nifty coveralls on.. his show will be aired in the spring..

Matt
> 
> > You can tell just by watching the show that materials are planted.  They
> > find stuff in matching sets!  Like when they built those pulling
> > tractors.  Good show, but I haven't seen it lately.
> > 
> > Chad Fernandez
> > Michigan, USA
> 
> My 5 year-old son is really into monster trucks (He can kick my butt on
> Monster Truck Madness when we play across the home network :-( )
> 
> I recorded the Monster Truck Junkyard Wars for him... that thing was
> totally seeded.  They even acknowledged it by saying that the Monster
> Truck tires one team found were actually "on loan" and were valued at
> $20,000 (probably from the BigFoot team, since Bob Chandler, creator of
> bigfoot was judging, and his master mechanic was the expert assistant on
> one team)
> 
> I'm also not sure that they adhered to the 10 hour time limit, as near the
> end one team was just getting in a replacement transmission and seemed to
> have several other unattended issues.  Can't imagine that they succeeded
> within the alloted time -- i suspect a little extra "offline" time was
> given as it would have been a pretty sucky show if neither team had a
> working truck! (10 hours seems like a pretty small timeframe to build a
> monster truck!)
> 
> Anyway, it's still fun to watch the shows, even if they aren't technically
> "pure".
> 
> --stephen
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