David Freiburger Talks About ‘Roadkill’ – Tells His Side of the Story on the Popular Show
“Freiburger here. It’s true; my television shows have been canceled.”
The former editor-in-chief for Hot Rod magazine, as well as the creator of Hot Rod Drag Week and Pump Gas Drags, stated those words to open his most recent video. Freiburger tells his side of the story of the popular MotorTrend show Roadkill, which was recently canceled after thirteen seasons.
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As we originally reported on Monday November 18th, the show has a new season of episodes ‘in the can’ and fans are both excited and bummed that that final season will mark the end of an era that started in 2012.
Freiburger would be the first show host to come out with a video, telling his side of the story about the recent events with MotorTrend’s popular shows marking the end of their production schedule, including Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, Faster with Finnegan (which became Faster with Newburn and Cotton after season two), and Roadworthy Rescues.
“I think the biggest message in all of this is to say thank you, to all of you, who have watched us for thirteen years,” said Freiburger within the first minute of the video he shot from inside his garage.
Freiburger, who recently began uploading new material to his YouTube channel David Freiburger within the past couple months ago, detailed several parts of the exciting journey he took with co-worker and friend Mike Finnegan.
“We were able to strike on lightning in a bottle,” Freiburger said. “We were able to have that camaraderie and that chemistry that you don’t get on a TV show that much.”
The ideas that a show done without a script, normally in three to five days, over a wide array of topics and ideas, kept audiences hooked for years.
Freiburger even noted “We couldn’t believe that (a million) people were tuning in to the stuff that we were doing,” reflecting on the fact that several videos were getting over a million views each. It was then their destiny seemed set.
Even though Finnegan moved from California to Georgia to be near his extended family after a few years of Roadkill hitting its stride, the co-hosts would normally get together every month to embark on some epic ideas, including a couple that involved drag-and-drive subject matter.
The full video from Freiburger’s channel is below:
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sick the Magazine, Evan Smith, Jon Morris, Alex Taylor, Holley and Roadkill / MotorTrend.
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