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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! .... not anymore
R.I.P. Jan C. Gabriel, Mr. "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" [w/video] — Autoblog
"SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!" The intonation inextricably linked to weekend motorsports events and monster truck rallies is seared into our childhood memories, and last Sunday its originator, Jan C. Gabriel (1940 - 2010), passed away at the age of 69 after battling kidney disease. Gabriel came up with the signature turn of phrase while auditioning to do the voiceover work for commercials advertising the U.S. 30 dragstrip in Indiana. A delay feature built into his tape recorder allowed Mr. Gabriel to pull off the unique repeat effect, and the rest, as they say, is history. He would go on to record fresh spots every week throughout the 1980s for events at U.S. 30 and other tracks around the country, bringing the "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" line national. Mr. Gabriel also produced and hosted the motorsports-themed television show, "Super Chargers," and his production company helped popularize monster trucks by pushing them into into the spotlight during the '80s. Jan Gabriel is survived by his wife, Theresa, and daughter, Amanda. Follow the jump for video of one of the old U.S. 30 television featuring his famous tagline.
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Sad to hear another icon heading West.
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I grew up on his voice near Chicago. I'd always hear on my trannsister radio the words "sunday sunday sunday at beautiful US 30 dragway". RIP
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I grew up in Michigan. Thanks for the memories. They had similar ads for Milan Dragway, about 40 miles outside Detroit.
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me and all my buddies, cruising, yelling "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, @ Kansas City Intermnational Raceway, it will be the funnycar championship OF THE YEAR, wheelstanding dragsters, screaming down the racetrack, at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, WITH A MAN INSIDE!!!! BE THERE!!!
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This probably just goes to show my age, but whenever I hear that phrase I think of the Truckasaurus episode of The Simpsons.
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Blood, sweat, gears! You pay for the whole seat but you'll only use the eeeeeeeedge!
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Nitro burning funny cars! Englishtown Speedway...
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Sunday,Sunday
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"where the 405 and the Harbor freeways COLLIDE!!!!!"
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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. See top fuel eliminators EXPLODE off the starting line at 2 PM. 2PM? 2 PM SUNDAY! Only at world-famous St. Louis International Raceway. BE THERE!
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