Oct 4, 2022
You see a lot of muscle cars on
New York City streets these days. And with their modified mufflers
and overpowered engines, you hear them too. Co-host Aaron Naparstek
began noticing that a lot of the muscle cars he was seeing around
town had stickers on them with the names of car clubs and their own
Instagram accounts. He was intrigued. The Instagram account was,
after all, an invitation to see inside the car -- to pierce that
bubble of privacy and anonymity that lets drivers get away with so
much. So, Aaron began following muscle cars on social media. Pretty
soon, he was immersed in New York City’s underground car club
scene. And his once-sedate Instagram feed was transformed into a
barrage of burnouts, donuts, takeovers, car meets, and crashes.
Then Aaron decided he wanted to do more than just watch on his
phone. He wanted to bring The War on Cars to the biggest car club
event of the summer. If you thought Driving Under the Influence was
a problem, wait until you meet the guys who are Driving to Become
Influencers.
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LINKS:
Some car accounts: Denys da Menace, Tyler Spec, The Scream Car
Car clubs: Brooklyn Hemi Boyz, Shake Da Block, Nemesis Auto Club
Sponsored by: Jimmy Rims and Tires
A taste of car club culture: Filming yourself
weaving in and out of traffic on the expressway at extremely high
speed makes you White Line Certified. If you end up crashing your car, send the
footage to Team Macksauce.
Spectator run over by car doing
doughnuts before NYC crowd cannot talk or eat (Daily
News)
Passenger in critical condition after collision
with car covered in ‘Scream’ decal (New
York Post)
NYPD pursues speedy justice as
drag racers, daredevils remain a problem on NYC streets, highways
(Daily
News)
What Parts of Car Culture Need to End? (Jalopnik)
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This episode was produced and edited by Aaron Naparstek with some help from Ali Lemer. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Our logo was designed by Dani Finkel of Crucial D Designs.