It's back, but with a twist: it's gonna become a true dual-sport ride for surf and turf, shedding its drag slicks for Super Swamper Boggers and hitting the sand dunes...hard!
Follow along to get the behind-the-scenes dirt on how we pulled off the Roadkill Live engine swap in the Crusher Camaro at the 2013 Performance Racing Industry trade show, then watch the 2,400-mile trip home from Indy to LA in the Crusher Camaro--including visits with Funny Car Racer Tony Pedregon, Steve Schmidt Racing Engines, and Finnegan's dad! It’s the very least we can do to thank all of you who have watched our show over the last four years. In that time, we’ve built a whole lot of cars, and in this episode we’ve got a shootout of the 10 that are still running and driving (and that have appeared on the show since our similar competition for the 25th episode). With David Freiburger, Mike Finnegan, Tony Angelo, Steve Dulcich. In episode 44 of Roadkill, Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger took a 1950 Ford F6 dump truck and shortened the wheelbase to just 102 inches so it would look freaky-cool-Watch with Motortrend.
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Less weight means more acceleration, better cornering, and better stopping. As a bonus, we invited Motor Trend hosts and Finally, they try and convince the Corvette Museum to let them leave their '75 Stingray behind......inside the sinkhole. Junkyard 1956 Buick Hack! Stubby Bob goes big-time in this episode of Roadkill, presented by Dodge.
2012 It all ends with a session at the drag strip where the Crusher went quicker than it ever has. Remember the drag racing '74 Chevy Muscle Truck from Roadkill Episode 18? Roadkill Episode 44: Stubby Bob Fails, El Camino Wins, and Blasphemi Flops!
On this episode of Roadkill, we celebrate with a 44-minute special that includes details on what's become of every Roadkill project car since the start, plus a big-action showdown of 9 of the popular survivors. Watch as the guys revamp the Jimmy inline six, panic over a wrecked master cylinder, sweat their cajones off for four days, and explore one of the... August 5, 2016. Freiburger and Finnegan fulfill a dream that began four-plus years ago when they first wrote the "Vette Hack" article for HOT ROD magazine, slicing 900 pounds of ugly fiberglass off of a 1985 Corvette to prove that it would handle better in the autocross.
On this episode of Roadkill, we celebrate with a 44-minute special that includes details on what's become of every Roadkill project car since the start, plus a big-action showdown of 9 of the popular survivors. Ride along with HOT ROD's David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan on ROADKILL, as the dynamic duo go in search of their next gearhead adventure in all types of gassers, 'barely-legal' street machines and highly strung performance vehicles.
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To do it Roadkill style, the guys find the worst Corvette they can buy, get it running after sitting for six years, break auto parts, experience gators firsthand, and visit the Corvette assembly plant. Sit back, pop open a few cold ones, and take a trip down memory lane with Freiburger and Finnegan as they reminisce on puking dogs, smashed hybrids and why nobody seems to like it when they drive to Alaska. This is the good stuff, the moments that didn't make the cut because we just couldn't fit them in, and the inside dirt on what really happens when we hit the road with 20 bucks in our pockets and a headful of good ideas. Well, Bob is a mystery project that Finnegan dragged home to his home shop in Georgia.
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After a struggle, they ended up letting a 5-year-old pick the car for them: a '67 Ford Country Sedan wagon. Fans asked for this, so we delivered! Nearly an hour of Roadkill madness on the way to Car Craft Summer Nationals 2015!
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And add a beer keg gas tank!Needless to say that nothing goes as planned, and even Plan B is a "Roadkill fail" for being too reliable. This time, Freiburger and Finnegan were out for a gearhead vacation, heading from the NHRA U.S. Nationals in Indy to HOT ROD Drag Week in Tulsa, but they had no car to drive.
In episode 44 of Roadkill, Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger took a 1950 Ford F6 dump truck and shortened the wheelbase to just 102 inches so it would look freaky-cool—but the truck wasn’t road trip–ready by the end of the show. In Episode 8 of Roadkill we introduced you to the greatest engine swap project ever-a Hemi into a 1955 Chevy Bel Air. TV-NR. Can the efficiency and traction of Subaru's Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive outrun the horsepower of the 1968 Ford Ranchero, the 1968 Dodge Charger "General Mayhem," and the turbo-Chevy-powered '71 "Rotsun" 240Z? 27min.