Cruise Along with ‘Classic Car Love Stories’
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Cruise Along with Nebraska Public Media’s All-New ‘Classic Auto Enjoy Stories’
LINCOLN, Neb. (Feb. 10, 2023) – What is less than the hood matters, but not as a lot as tales that stretch throughout the miles and gasoline our passion for common cars. Nebraska Public Media’s newest area documentary “Classic Automobile Enjoy Stories” shares the passions of car enthusiasts who simply cannot resist weekends spent tinkering with the nostalgia of a four-wheeled good friend.
“Classic Car Adore Stories” premieres at 7 p.m. CT, Sunday, Feb. 26, on Nebraska General public Media and Fb Dwell, using viewers to satisfy auto homeowners in tiny cities and huge towns.
Just like a childhood toy, traditional cars can steer reminiscences toward less difficult moments, and remind entrepreneurs of specific folks, locations and occasions. Other house owners aspiration about legendary stylings and style, and for some, it’s the pace. Whatsoever the attraction, “Classic Car or truck Like Stories” introduces viewers to motorists who passionately adore these classics and retain history alive on Nebraska’s state streets and interstate highways.
Method host Braeden Tyma of Kearney grew up in Grand Island about typical cars and trucks. He opens the application with a check out to Matty Mattson and his 1947 Oldsmobile in Omaha. Mattson considers cars as an extension of himself, and a connection to relatives and his beloved Chicano local community.
Next, “Classic Motor vehicle Enjoy Stories” requires viewers to meet up with Jeff and Jim Karls, two brothers who possess numerous common automobiles and bear in mind a scorching rod household historical past – Jeff even opened a generate-in theater in Valley, Neb. Then, the movie introduces Kelsey Bugjo, an Omahan with an affinity for the stylings and iconic fins of a 1957 Chevy.
In Wakefield, a father and son share corporations and a 1965 Corvette that has been their passion for additional than 40 years. Each individual summer time since 2001, the duo races alongside a twisty, hilly stretch of Sandhills blacktop in the vicinity of Arnold, Neb., in the Sandhills Open up Road Problem. “It’s just fun. It’s adrenaline,” claimed motor vehicle proprietor Lyle Ekberg. The race was a dream of auto buff Joe Demonstrated, who, like the Ekbergs, is just one of the race’s first competitors.
In Lincoln, Tyma introduces typical car or truck buff Tim Haith, who has invested many years in an extraordinary assortment of modified and restored autos, which include one he has owned due to the fact he was a teenager and a 1933 Ford that he uncovered at a swap meet.
As “Classic Automobile Love Stories” continues near Lincoln in Hallam, Jess Gasper and Jenn Ankerson share the tale of how their dad and mom brought the two toddler women home from the medical center in a typical. These days, the similar twins share a daily life-long enthusiasm for autos.
Upcoming, Tyma explores a motor vehicle lifestyle with roots in 1940s Los Angeles. Omahan Richard Medina grew up close to lowriders in Colorado and recognized the Lowriders of Nebraska Club as a way to share autos, songs and adore across the point out.
The film also follows the story of Larry and Nathan Elias of Lincoln, a father and son who paid homage to Nathan’s grandfather by tracking down a beloved motor vehicle sold extra than 25 many years ago.
“Classic Car Love Stories” ends in Mitchell with Beth Janecek, a traditional car or truck lover with a passion for convertibles and a like of Studebakers, such as a 1963 Studebaker Avanti. She lovingly thorough the vehicle each individual time the few and their two younger sons headed out to a weekend car display.
Learn additional about vintage cars and trucks in Nebraska and the documentary “Classic Car Appreciate Stories” on the net at NebraskaPublicMedia.org/cars and trucks.
“Classic Vehicle Enjoy Stories” repeats at 8:30 p.m. CT, Thursday, March 2 and 8:30 p.m. CT, Tuesday, March 7 on Nebraska Public Media. It will also be broadcast at 6 p.m. CT, Friday, March 10 on Entire world and at 7 p.m. CT, Saturday, March 4 and 8:30 p.m. CT, Saturday, March 11 on Make.
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