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Finnegan Built A Paint Booth In His Driveway And Painted His C10! I’M SO JEALOUS!!!

Mar 07, 2021FUNNY STUFF, TECH, Videos

Finnegan Built A Paint Booth In His Driveway And Painted His C10! I’M SO JEALOUS!!!

I’ve been wanting to build my own paint booth and paint a car for years, and I have a car that is in serious need of a color change and some fresh paint so when I saw this latest video from Finnegan I was both jealous and inspired. Yes, you can be both. You’ll see that Finnegan and Newbern make this paint booth with regular stuff. There is nothing fancy and unobtainable here. With that said, my plans call for a little bit different main structure than he uses but otherwise they are nearly identical. If you’d like to see us paint a car in a home built paint booth, then let me know and we’ll get on it.

What you’ll dig about this video is the fact that, as usual, these two walk us through the thought process, the build process, any tough decisions, and finally spraying paint on the body. I hope this is the start of Finnegan painting more stuff in his driveway, because I think it would be pretty entertaining. For some reason I feel like they should hand Cotten the paint gun and let him go to town. He’s an artist after all, or so he says.

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Stocking Stuffer: The Absolutely Epic Jason Plato/Matt Neal Interview Inside Of Renault Williams

Dec 27, 2020FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos

Stocking Stuffer: The Absolutely Epic Jason Plato/Matt Neal Interview Inside Of Renault Williams

For a kid with a strong racing fascination in the mid-to-late 1990s, you essentially had two outlets if you wanted to see good action on television: TNN and Speedvision. (I’m sure ESPN showed something in between other sports, but I couldn’t be bothered.) TNN was where you went to see NASCAR highlights, swamp buggy racing, automotive shows at the time, and the occasional tough-truck competition. Speedvision, when it hit our cable provider in 1996, was where you went when you wanted a taste of the weird and the unknown. Much to the irritation of my parents at the time, I would be wide awake at three in the morning with the television on, the volume cranked just high enough that I could hear something, watching British Touring Car racing. I loved the stuff, because in my developing mind, it had three things NASCAR just didn’t have: real, identifiable cars; road courses instead of one sweeping oval; and drivers with personalities and tempers that didn’t hold back because it would look bad upon their sponsors. If anything, it seemed like the sponsors were gently pushing their wheelmen to be a bit more…how should I phrase this?…hands-on when it came time to solving disputes.

Over the years we’ve shown you great action from the BTCC, including the absolutely infamous incident at Silverstone in 1992 that saw middle fingers flying on live television coverage and body panels getting smashed in like it was a banger race and not a touring car run. That was the early 1990s…by the late 1990s the two gentlemen that are being interviewed by Jonny Smith were point and center in what many saw as a bitter rivalry. Jason Plato and Matt Neal were names you heard regardless of when you tuned in for a race. Their personalities are so different, yet the same in many aspects. For years these two have battered and bashed their way around tracks, have found themselves in front of the officials and the cameras alike for their antics, and have somehow managed to be friends, even after threatening to kick the shit out of each other after big crashes.

Merry Christmas, BangShifters. Once the wrapping paper gets cleaned up and the kids are off with their new goodies, sit down and watch these two. It’s worth it.

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Classic YouTube: This VW Golf Gives A 350Z And A Porsche A Great Lesson In Humility!

Nov 27, 2020FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Classic YouTube: This VW Golf Gives A 350Z And A Porsche A Great Lesson In Humility!

It takes a bit of cojones to pick a fight with a Porsche 911. From their introduction in 1964 to the modern day, the 911 has been the backbone of the Porsche lineup. The base models are no slouches, and over the years the model range has a variety for every stage, from “mild” and  “sporty” to “clinically insane” and “the Widowmaker”…and that’s not hyperbole, the 930 Turbo cars are notorious not only for their speed but for their lift-off oversteering tendencies that tend to make messes in the pants of doctors who are way in way over their heads on track days. So we give the driver of this Nissan 350Z credit for taking a shot at a newer 911 in the first place. The Nissan sounds….well, like every 350Z (a French horn with the trots), but if the gauges are any indication, all is not stock under hood. So, fairly stock-appearing Porsche versus a Nissan with some tweaks…not a bad pairing, right?

All would be well and good, except that a guy in a first-generation VW Golf that is as far from stock as you can possibly get decided that he wanted to play, too. At least the guy in the Nissan understands what’s going on, because the laughter that kicks in as the Golf makes the Porsche disappear is infectious. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”, indeed.

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(Thanks to Randal Burns for the tip!)

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