Muscle Car City: We Are in the Movie
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In the spring of 2021, War on Cars co-host Aaron Naparstek started noticing lots of big loud muscle cars rumbling around New York City emblazoned with Instagram accounts. He began following cars on social media, immersing himself in a world of burnouts, donuts, street races, and takeovers. What happens when car culture meets social media and a city's street network becomes the infrastructure for thousands of clout-seeking muscle car enthusiasts' social network? To find out, Aaron brought The War on Cars to New York City's "biggest, craziest car meet" of the year.
This is the second of a three-part series. You might want to listen to Part 1, "Welcome to Muscle Car City," before you listen to this.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to the war on cars. I'm Aaron Napersack and this is the second of a three-part series called Muscle Car City. |
| 0:08.0 | In part one back in episode 92 of the podcast I told you about how in the streets and many of these cars had their own Instagram accounts. I began |
| 0:25.1 | following cars on social media and pretty soon found myself immersed in a whole |
| 0:30.8 | world and subculture of burnouts, donuts, carmeats and street takeers. |
| 0:37.0 | There were lots of things that fascinated me about this scene, but I think the main thing was the way |
| 0:44.3 | that social media seemed to be supercharging, some of the more toxic aspects of car culture. |
| 0:50.8 | There's nothing new about driving recklessly in a big loud obnoxious muscle car, |
| 0:55.0 | but these guys were driving recklessly with Instagram handles on their cars |
| 1:00.0 | and posting their exploits on social media. |
| 1:04.0 | Some of these muscle cars had tens of thousands of followers. |
| 1:08.0 | They even had sponsors. |
| 1:10.0 | They were media brands. |
| 1:12.0 | With a single Instagram post, a popular muscle car |
| 1:14.9 | account could summon hundreds of cars |
| 1:17.3 | to any location in the city on a Saturday night. |
| 1:20.3 | Ph.B. |
| 1:21.5 | We outside, baby. One of the cars I was following belonged to a guy who called himself Dennis Demenis. |
| 1:28.0 | Dennis owned a Dodge Charger in Frostbite Blue with pink trim and was a member of a car club called the Brooklyn |
| 1:35.9 | Hemi Boys. In part one I talked with Dennis and did a little ride along with him. |
| 1:41.1 | Um... along with him. Oh no, it's terrifying. This is like my dream. |
| 1:44.0 | Oh no, it's terrifying. |
| 1:50.0 | This is like my nightmare. |
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