Gas passing garage beat them. I know this shouldn't bother me, but it does. Thoughts?
Gas passing garage beat them. I know this shouldn't bother me, but it does. Thoughts?
Huh? 
http://artofgears.com/2015/08/13/gas-monkey-garage-beats-roadkill-in-18-mile-drag-race/
When I read the link I thought they did a 18 mile drag race and I was thinking wow cool, then I was like oh its 1/8.
Who gives a flying berkeley?
yamaha wrote: Who gives a flying berkeley?
You wouldn't want to drop a Hellcat Motor in an old Dodge Dart? Perhaps this board would be more to your liking: craftster.org
I think what I enjoy about Roadkill is they are amateurs not unlike myself. I really did not expect them to whoop up on a shop full of pro hot rod/race car builders. Truth be told though, I have never watched Gas Monkey's show and have no idea of their credentials.
Dodge's PR firm won the race.
Would you rather them be sponsored by Summers Eve douche?
Gas monkey WAS ok. After the spin-off, not worth watching.
Appleseed wrote: Would you rather them be sponsored by Summers Eve douche?
That's probably who sponsors Chrysler's marketing division, they they actually win.
yamaha wrote: Who gives a flying berkeley?
Why so negative? Would it have been better for there not to have been an automotive event enjoyed by thousands of people because their tastes don't align 100% with yours?
Although the irony of Fast n Loud being sponsored as such is not lost on me. 
In reply to logdog:
At first glance I thought sarcasm, but now I'm at a 50/50 sarcasm/serious split....
At least we're not talking about staged street racing this time....
This just cements the fact that Richard Rawlings is the biggest shiny happy person in the automotive entertainment arena.
Both of them are sponsored by Dodge, so I assume pro wrestling rules apply. Roadkill will come back next month and beat them, and so on and so forth until one of them wins the world championship.
In reply to stuart in mn:
I doubt it. I'm just pissed that a high tech shop with all of the equipment is gloating about beating roadkill, who threw the general mayhem together in little time.
G_Body_Man wrote: This just cements the fact that Richard Rawlings is the biggest shiny happy person in the automotive entertainment arena.
No, Boyd Coddington will forever retain that title.......even from beyond the grave. 
In reply to yamaha:
Okay, you're right. But Rawlings is a close second.
G_Body_Man wrote: In reply to stuart in mn: I doubt it. I'm just pissed that a high tech shop with all of the equipment is gloating about beating roadkill, who threw the general mayhem together in little time.
Actually, the Hellcat swap in General Mayhem was done by Diversified Creations - a high-tech shop with all the equipment, but no TV show.
the event last night was unberkleyingbelievably cool and I (and most of the 10k+ other people that came out on a Wednesday night) had a great time.
I might even have to get cable again to watch the Fast & Loud episode when it airs.
In reply to That_Renault_Guy:
Huh, I must have missed that part.
Yeah, they had a shop put it together for them. Funny stuff either way.
I kinda thought that when they wailed on the new hellcat and just trashed it.
I like the type of shows when they drove the El Camino to an auto parts store parking lot and swapped out the engine, and it lightly snowed. That felt realistic to me.
Great marketing Dodge.
I could have sworn that Aaron really despised mopar vehicles. I though he really kind of bad mouthed them in one of the early shows. (pre-FCA sponsership)
this is the cover image on the Roadkill FB page... a car that their corporate overlords- i mean "sponsor"- had made for them...
they not only jumped the shark, but they did a double backflip and a "superman" on the way over..
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