Deconstructing Muscle Car City
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1, Welcome to Muscle Car City, we met Denys da Menace, a young New York City guy who does “donuts” and "burnouts" in a souped-up Dodge Charger as part of the Brooklyn Hemi Boyz car club. Then in Part 2, We Are in the Movie, we rode along in what was supposed to be the biggest, loudest, craziest car meet of the summer. Now Sarah, Doug, and Aaron are going to break it down and talk about it. Why did muscle-car culture become so big during the first two years of the pandemic? How do car club members afford to keep their expensive hobby going? And why are we allowing automakers to put these products on public streets while encouraging young men to use them as dangerously as possible? In Part 3, we’re Deconstructing Muscle Car City.
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LINKS:
'Menacing' Dodge Charger Hellcat Redeye goes 203 mph, will start at $80K (Detroit Free Press)
Dodge’s idiotic Chief Donut Maker reality TV-style marketing campaign featuring professional wrestler, Bill Goldberg (Dodge)
Welcome to the Royal Posh Auto Spa, where Aaron interviewed muscle car owner, Carlos.
2022 Hess Flatbed Truck with Hot Rods! (YouTube)
This episode was produced by Aaron Naparstek, edited by Ali Lemer, and recorded by Josh Wilcox of the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Our logo was designed by Dani Finkel of Crucial D Designs.
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| 0:55.0 | Get outside and have a great 2023 with Clever Hood. Welcome to the war on cars. I'm Aaron Napaestack, the one who has been |
| 1:17.4 | subjecting you to two episodes worth of terrible muscle car noises. |
| 1:21.2 | That's okay. |
| 1:23.0 | I think I'm recovering well. |
| 1:25.0 | I didn't listen to those episodes with headphones on so I was able to deal with it a little better. |
| 1:29.8 | That was smart, that was smart. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm basically traumatized from editing those. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah I can imagine although you could also be completely desensitized and just |
| 1:38.0 | be able to now go into the heart of a nuclear reactor or something like that. |
| 1:43.4 | It's part of the PTSD process being desensitized. |
| 1:47.8 | Anyways, today I'm joined by my co-host, Doug Gordon, |
| 1:50.4 | and Sarah Goodyear, and we're actually |
| 1:52.0 | going to talk about the muscle car phenomenon and my |
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