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Ask 'Junkyard Wars Diva' Cathy Rogers

Posted by Roblimo on from the where-welding-skills-trump-coding-prowess-every-time dept.

Junkyard Wars (and the British Scrapheap Challenge) have long been popular with Slashdot readers. Now Cathy is co-host of a new show, Full Metal Challenge, that also involves teams building strange machines out of this and that. Take a look at this 'Cathy' fan site (and possibly her less interesting official biography), then ask away. (Usual Slashdot interview rules.)

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  1. Yard seeding. by FreeLinux · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It appeared to me that SO often the yard had been seeded. In one show, the contestants were required to build a flying machine, low and behold a complete Cessna fuselage appeared on the top of the heap. Frequently things like brand new, whole rolls of wire would be "found" on the scrap heap, not to mention a large number of fully operational vehicles.

    What kind of junk yard was being used in Junk Yard Wars and how often was it seeded?