The historic property on Woodward Avenue in Berkley, which is to reopen as a restaurant in 2012, serves as the show's namesake.
The first of 13 episodes of Autoweek's Vinsetta Garage premiered at 8:30 Tuesday night on the Discovery Channel's Velocity Network. The episode featured a lively discussion about what makes someone a car person; a visit with the Corvette Cruisers of Atlanta; a peek inside Auto Week's fantasy camp in Dearborn; interviews with Ford Motor Co. Vice President of Global Marketing Jim Farley Jr., General Motors North America President Mark Reuss and President and CEO of SRT brand at Chrylser Ralph Gilles; and more. Co-hosts Courtney Hansen and Autoweek Editorial Director Dutch Mandel also showed off Detroit in its best light by cruising Belle Isle in a 1966 E-Type Jaguar under warmer, sunnier skies. The historic Vinsetta Garage property on …
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'Autoweek's Vinsetta Garage' to premiere Jan. 3 on the Discovery Channel's Velocity Network. The historic Woodward Avenue property in Berkley is set to reopen in 2012 as a restaurant; job applications are being accepted.
Mouths have been watering since Berkley Patch reported in August that the historic Vinsetta Garage property on Woodward Avenue will reopen as a restaurant, and now comes word that it also will be the namesake of a new show on the Discovery Channel's Velocity Network. Restaurant co-owner Curt Catallo confirmed a report this week in The Detroit News that Autoweek's Vinsetta Garage will premiere at 8:30 p.m. Jan. 3. It will be the first of 13 episodes to air. "Autoweek’s Vinsetta Garage unleashes our passion for the automobile and the fervor that fuels us," reads the show's website. "Thirty minutes of unadulterated car enthusiasm served hot off the manifold and torn from Autoweek’s editorial pages – covering everything from design to driving…
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Dave Speights
5:14 pm on Wednesday, January 4, 2012
I heard entirely too much talking by Dutch Mandel and his minions, delighting in their own wonderfulness. Let's see and hear more about cars! more ›