Surviving HOT ROD Drag Week! – Roadkill Episode 9

On this episode of Roadkill, HOT ROD’s David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan hit the road with 500 of their friends for Drag Week. It’s the most brutal test anywhere of real drag-racing, street-driven cars, as the competitors hit the road for 1400 miles to race five times at four different drag strips in five days in a battle to post the lowest average elapsed time at the end of the week. The winner is crowned the HOT ROD Fastest Street Car in America. It’s long days and short nights but that’s nothing new for the Roadkill guys! We know THEY will survive, but will the competitors? Roadkill appears every fourth Friday on the new Motor Trend channel. www.youtube.com Subscribe now to make sure you’re in on all the action! www.youtube.com Facebook – facebook.com & facebook.com Twitter – twitter.com Google+ – plus.google.com Website – www.motortrend.com & http
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727 Cubic Inches and Australian Tire Smoke! – Roadkill Episode 10

On this episode of Roadkill, there’s endless burnouts and powerskids as David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of HOT ROD magazine are on the loose in Australia with 727ci of Sonny Leonard hemi-headed madness. The massive big-block makes 1275 horsepower between the fenders of a 2006 Holden HSV VE Clubsport R8. In American, that’s like a Pontiac G8. This display of overkill is the product of “Gup,” the promoter of the Powercruise series of events in Australia, New Zealand, and Minnesota (USA) where tire smoke is the rule. On the show, you’ll see tire fire from Gup’s infamous “Elvis” ’74 Holden HQ, from his 727ci Clubbie, from a 1500ci diesel semi truck, and from Downunder’s most throttle-happy petrolheads on both coasts. The miracle is that Freiburger and Finnegan aren’t still in an Aussie jail. Of course, that might have been less punishing than the 30-hour flight home. Roadkill appears every fourth Friday on the new Motor Trend channel. www.youtube.com Subscribe now to make sure you’re in on all the action! www.youtube.com Facebook – facebook.com & facebook.com Twitter – twitter.com Google+ – plus.google.com Website – www.motortrend.com & http