Welcome to Muscle Car City
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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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Tickets are on sale now for War on Cars LIVE at Caveat on Tuesday, November 1 @ 7 PM.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey War on Cars fans, we are thrilled to announce the second annual Live War on Cars show. |
| 0:07.0 | That's right, you can join me, Aaron, and Sarah on Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 7 PM at Caveat, a fantastic venue in New York City for a live recording of the podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Last year's show was a ton of fun and it was so great to be in a room with so many friends and listeners. |
| 0:26.0 | There were prizes, special deals on merch and more. |
| 0:30.0 | That show sold out, so you're going to want to get your tickets to this one now. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll put a link in the show notes. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, and if you're a Patreon supporter, you can get a special discount on tickets. |
| 0:43.0 | So if you've been thinking of signing up, well, there you go. |
| 0:47.2 | We'll see you all live on Tuesday, November 1st at Caviot in New York City. |
| 0:59.2 | There was this one car that I kept seeing parked |
| 1:01.1 | around my neighborhood last year. It was dark blue with black |
| 1:04.8 | racing stripes and hot pink trim around the edges. It had a big air intake on the hood, like a giant nostril. It was a Dodge Charger, a so-called muscle car. You see a lot of |
| 1:18.8 | muscle cars on New York City streets these days. Dodge charg Chargers and challengers, Ford Mustangs and Chevy Camaros. |
| 1:26.9 | And you hear them too. Their modified mufflers and overpowered engines are designed to be noisy. |
| 1:33.4 | What intrigued me about this particular muscle car |
| 1:37.2 | were the stickers on the back window. |
| 1:39.8 | One of the stickers showed a Grim reaper, a purple grinning skull. |
| 1:45.0 | The reaper held a suspension bridge in its bony claws. |
| 1:49.0 | The sticker read, Brooklyn Hemi-boys. |
| 1:52.0 | That's Boys with a Z. The other sticker was simply an |
| 1:56.7 | Instagram account. At Dennis Domeness. It was a muscle car with its own Instagram account. I was intrigued. The |
| 2:07.1 | Instagram account was after all an invitation to see inside the car to pierce that bubble of privacy and anonymity that lets drivers |
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