What's the best way to build a great off-road car? Buy a used desert racer! That's exactly what happens in this episode of Roadkill powered by Dodge. With an urge to go rallycross racing
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00:00 This time on Roadkill, we're buying a '73 Hornet of Craigslist, and we're going rally
00:06 racing until they throw us out!
00:09 Yeah!
00:10 Yeah!
00:11 Yeah!
00:34 This all started when we had an opportunity to do something that I've wanted to do for,
00:38 no exaggeration, 20 years, which is a rally cross, which is like an autocross, but in
00:44 dirt.
00:45 And so I went on Facebook and I told the fans, "Hey, we want to go rally cross racing.
00:49 What will you sell us?"
00:50 And so, we came up with this '73 AMC Hornet, and it's run in the Mint 400, the Nora 1000
00:58 three times, and it even has off-road legacy dating way back into the early '70s.
01:03 It was like a dream come true to be able to get a car that's fully caged front to back.
01:09 It's got dual king shocks on every corner.
01:11 It's got a Ford nine inch in the back.
01:13 It's got a Dugan's built 360 AMC under the hood, a 727 Mopar automatic transmission,
01:18 and it's going to be a lot of fun if we can actually get it going.
01:21 It's been sitting here, I think, since 2012.
01:24 It's actually street legal.
01:25 And look at the license plate, Nora 1000.
01:28 That's pretty cool.
01:29 Oh, we have a spare tire.
01:35 This is too nice for us.
01:36 Trans cooler, oil cooler.
01:38 The shocks cost more than my first car.
01:41 Oh yeah.
01:44 Look at that.
01:45 This thing is fully caged up.
01:46 And the welds are just crappy enough to be roadkill, all right.
01:49 It has four shocks up front.
01:51 That means we can jump it four times higher than a stock car.
01:54 Oh, look at the aluminum radiator.
01:56 Dude, radiator's full.
01:58 Wow.
01:59 Oil's black, but full.
02:02 As it should be.
02:03 Yeah.
02:04 Trans fluid, ooh, it's way over full.
02:07 So we need to fire it up to find out what the truth is there.
02:11 Okay, cranking and watching for oil pressure.
02:17 Did you get oil pressure?
02:23 It had a little bit, yeah.
02:25 It started moving the needle up.
02:26 All we need is fuel.
02:28 Yep.
02:29 Let's go to a gas station.
02:31 Yep.
02:32 Nice.
02:33 This is too easy so far.
02:34 Something's going to go catastrophically wrong.
02:35 We'll get gas, and we'll fire it up, find all the leaks, and end up replacing every hose
02:38 in the vehicle.
02:39 Yep.
02:40 Okay.
02:41 You want to splash some in?
02:49 That was an accident.
02:52 It worked.
02:53 I guess that's the horn button.
02:55 Holy cow.
02:56 I'm going to flip a couple switches and see if I hear a fuel pump, okay?
03:03 Okay.
03:04 Oh, there we go.
03:05 Listen.
03:06 I hear it.
03:07 Nice.
03:08 We have fuel now.
03:09 All right.
03:10 Do it again.
03:11 Firing it up.
03:12 Sounds good.
03:13 Can it be that easy?
03:14 60 pounds of oil pressure.
03:28 There's a massive leak.
03:31 All right.
03:32 It's either the ATF or the brakes, one or the other.
03:35 This looks like a brake line, though.
03:36 It doesn't feel like there's a massive hole in a brake line.
03:39 See, look right down here.
03:41 This is a brake line, and it may just be loose.
03:47 It's a brake line with transmission fluid on it?
03:51 Or is that brake fluid?
03:52 No, it's clear.
03:53 It's not pink.
03:54 I don't need to clean it anymore.
04:03 Much too big.
04:05 That fuel line leaks pretty bad right there.
04:06 Yeah.
04:07 I think this AM line is done.
04:10 Oh, yeah.
04:11 Fully.
04:12 It's leaking out the AM line.
04:13 It's probably going to do that in the entire car.
04:15 The problem is that the California gas has a whole lot of alcohol in it, and it ends up
04:20 just eating through the rubber AM line.
04:24 The rubber's inside this braided steel.
04:26 Yeah.
04:27 We're going to have to deal with that.
04:30 I'm about to pull the seat out of the car because not only is the bulk of the wildlife
04:35 that wants to harm me under this seat, but so is a transmission core line that is leaking
04:40 everywhere.
04:44 Not for steel.
04:47 Challenge accepted.
04:53 This is brake line.
04:54 We're turning this into transmission line.
04:57 This was Dave's idea.
04:58 It's brilliant.
04:59 This is what's called removing really good, safe AM line and installing rubber line with
05:12 sketchy connections.
05:13 Right there.
05:14 And that's good.
05:15 Well, we're actually going to put this on the ground, fire it up, and try and drive
05:34 it, aren't we?
05:35 Damn right.
05:36 The tires we got for this are a Cooper STT Pro, which is their awesome mud tire.
05:44 We got 31 by 10 50 15s all the way around.
05:47 The wheels on the back are 15 by eights and the fronts are sevens.
05:50 It's going to look tough.
05:56 Before I put the tire on, I should show you all the suspension stuff this thing has going
05:59 on up front.
06:01 This is basically the same suspension concept as a stock AMC.
06:06 It's a stock upper control arm.
06:07 They did put the springs on top of the upper control arm on these things.
06:10 It's all beefed up up here.
06:12 They've welded a bunch of reinforcement into both control arms.
06:15 There's a big strut rod here with a giant Heim joint to keep it from deflecting.
06:19 The control arms modified with a thread in ball joint to take a Mopar type joint.
06:24 And it has a Dodge van spindle and brakes on it.
06:28 And of course the beef here for the massive remote reservoir King shocks.
06:33 So kind of stock but heavily beefed.
06:43 Now we can drive it and find out what's wrong with it.
06:45 Yep.
06:46 Look at all the switches I can play with.
06:49 We got a lot to do.
07:11 You think that's weird?
07:27 Look at it smoking.
07:28 All right.
07:29 That was a good test drive.
07:30 How far did we get?
07:32 The trans fluid reads all the way up the dipstick.
07:35 I mean, dude, it's up to here.
07:39 That's because it all runs down from the cooler.
07:41 All right.
07:42 So let me fire it up and...
07:48 Nothing.
07:53 Says it's full.
07:54 Whoa.
07:55 What?
07:56 Well, when you shut it off, it pukes all of it up the tube and onto the exhaust.
08:00 Okay.
08:01 That's got to be what the sound is that I hear in here.
08:04 Yeah.
08:05 Oh man.
08:06 That may catch on fire.
08:07 Yeah.
08:08 I'm going to have to get the brake clean.
08:09 I can't feel it everywhere.
08:10 It just pukes out.
08:11 It comes out.
08:12 Yeah.
08:13 Yeah.
08:14 I just dumped a buttload of it all over the place.
08:15 Really?
08:16 Yeah.
08:17 This is weird.
08:18 That's got to mean it's full.
08:19 Well, but it doesn't move.
08:20 Yeah.
08:21 I think it's not pumping it through the system.
08:22 Hear that?
08:23 The issue we're having here is that basically the car won't move.
08:24 It acts like it has no power.
08:25 It's not pumping it through the system.
08:26 It's not pumping it through the system.
08:27 It's not pumping it through the system.
08:28 It's not pumping it through the system.
08:29 It's not pumping it through the system.
08:30 It's not pumping it through the system.
08:31 I think it's not pumping it through the system.
08:33 Hear that?
08:34 The issue we're having here is that basically the car won't move.
08:35 It acts like it has no trans fluid in it, but it's overflowing out of the tube.
08:36 It's something to do with the trans cooler being mounted up here on the roll cage, where
08:37 it's got an air bubble trapped in it and the transmission's not pumping it through.
08:38 At least that's our guess.
08:39 Yeah.
08:40 There's still nothing up here.
08:41 Really?
08:42 I think the cooler might be broken.
08:43 It might be.
08:44 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:45 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:46 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:47 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:48 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:49 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:50 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:51 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:52 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:53 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:54 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:55 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:56 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:57 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:58 We pulled one line off the transmission.
08:59 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:00 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:01 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:02 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:03 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:04 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:05 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:06 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:07 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:08 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:09 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:10 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:11 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:12 We pulled one line off the transmission.
09:13 Okay.
09:14 Where did it come from?
09:15 This one that we stuck through the shock tower.
09:16 Okay, so that's the pressure side.
09:17 Yep.
09:18 So, I would hook that up to the cooler, disconnect the other one, and see if we can blow through
09:19 the cooler, eliminate the air bubble.
09:20 Nothing.
09:21 Okay, so that's the pressure side.
09:22 Yep.
09:23 So, I would hook that up to the cooler, disconnect the other one, and see if we can blow through
09:24 the cooler, eliminate the air bubble.
09:25 Nothing.
09:26 Okay, so that's the pressure side.
09:27 Yep.
09:28 So, I would hook that up to the cooler, disconnect the other one, and see if we can blow through
09:29 the cooler, eliminate the air bubble.
09:30 Nothing.
09:31 Okay, so that's the pressure side.
09:32 Okay, so that's the pressure side.
09:33 Yep.
09:34 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
09:35 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
09:36 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
09:37 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
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10:11 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
10:12 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
10:13 Okay, so that's the air bubble.
10:14 If it doesn't work, my face will know.
10:16 That doesn't seem right.
10:26 Should we pull it back into shade?
10:30 We'll put some more fluid in it.
10:31 Yep.
10:32 Well, we're once again setting records here on Roadkill.
10:41 Trying to test drive the car for the first time
10:43 doesn't want to move.
10:44 Every time you pull the dipstick out
10:46 to check the transmission fluid,
10:48 if you turn the engine off or put it in park,
10:50 it just launches fluid out of the dipstick tube
10:53 all over the exhaust, which is very safe.
10:56 So right now we're struggling to find out
10:58 do we have enough fluid in there?
11:00 And if we don't, we need to put more in.
11:03 Oh, that's way better.
11:12 Way better.
11:13 Oh yeah.
11:14 It was just low.
11:15 Okay, you want to hop in and go drive it?
11:17 Yeah.
11:18 Let me remind you of where we're at,
11:20 like in terms of the grand scheme of things.
11:22 Yeah.
11:23 Race is in a couple of days.
11:24 We have bypassed the transmission cooler completely,
11:28 which is a no-no in a stock vehicle.
11:30 Oh, we're going to put it back.
11:32 This vehicle has a skid plate completely encasing
11:35 not just the transmission, but the exhaust system.
11:38 Uh-huh.
11:39 And there's smoke coming out of the hood.
11:41 Oh, this is way better.
11:43 All right.
11:48 We're good.
11:49 I love the car again.
11:51 Yeah, we've got this.
11:52 All right.
11:53 Why not?
11:54 We have a skid plate.
11:55 Want to hit the street?
11:56 Yes.
11:57 Okay.
11:58 It's bumpy.
12:04 This is so cool.
12:07 Oh, it's sketchy.
12:09 Does it drive straight?
12:11 No.
12:12 [Laughter]
12:14 I love it.
12:26 Whoa, bumps.
12:30 Yeah, not bad.
12:32 [Laughter]
12:34 Yeah.
12:36 All right, not too bad.
12:42 What do you think?
12:43 It rides slightly better than the lowrider we took to Vegas.
12:47 [Laughter]
12:49 Yeah.
12:51 I need to not talk when you do that.
13:00 I just ate a bunch of dirt.
13:03 Okay.
13:05 I think we're good to go.
13:07 She's rally ready?
13:08 Yeah.
13:09 All right.
13:11 My spine might be protesting right now.
13:13 [Laughter]
13:18 We're invincible.
13:22 After a quick checkout run, we reconnected the transcooler
13:28 and then hit the road in some brutal heat.
13:31 We were going to go out to the desert to the lava pit,
13:34 the same one where Dulcich and I got into a gnarly windstorm
13:38 in an episode of Roadkill Garage.
13:40 Oh, man!
13:45 Oh!
13:49 Oh!
13:50 Oh, man!
13:51 Oh!
13:52 Sandstorm!
13:54 How are we going to get out of this?
13:56 I don't know.
13:57 Rocks!
13:58 Rocks!
14:00 Now it's getting warm in here.
14:02 Give me a spray like right about here.
14:04 All right.
14:06 In the face!
14:08 Oh, there you go.
14:09 That's pretty good.
14:11 Right here.
14:16 Yeah.
14:17 It's coming back at us.
14:18 Yeah, it's like not so much here than here.
14:21 We need to take the hatch off.
14:23 Probably.
14:25 That might help the transmission temperature too
14:27 with where that cooler's located.
14:30 Okay, I'm ready.
14:31 How about we stop and deck it?
14:33 Ah, perfection.
14:40 Shade!
14:41 We're rolling down the highway, 60 to 70 miles an hour.
14:44 Everything's going pretty well.
14:45 I'm shocked that the engine doesn't overheat,
14:47 but the transmission is getting to like 220 degrees,
14:50 which means that it'll explode.
14:52 That's partially because it's got a cooler underneath the hatch.
14:55 It's partially because the skid plate is trapping all the heat.
14:58 So all we can do right now is pull the hatch off
15:01 so that we aren't personally overheating
15:03 and so that we can do the transmission a favor too.
15:06 So are we going to try and strap it or hide it behind the tree?
15:09 Hmm.
15:11 We're going to go off-roading,
15:12 which means it's going to get destroyed,
15:14 especially after you roll us over.
15:16 Hide it behind the tree?
15:17 Hide it behind the tree.
15:18 Okay.
15:19 We can wedge it right in the tree.
15:20 It's less conspicuous.
15:22 You think so?
15:24 Don't you think we should go other side out
15:27 since it's a matching color?
15:28 Oh, yeah.
15:29 It's like hazard camouflage.
15:31 There you go.
15:35 You got it?
15:36 I'll go around the other side.
15:38 Perfect.
15:41 It's like it's not even there.
15:42 You like this solution?
15:44 Well, I think you really had to put an effort in here
15:46 to like notice it and take it.
15:47 Okay.
15:48 Ready?
15:49 Oh, that was easy.
15:51 All set?
15:53 Let's do it.
15:54 That's a turn.
16:00 Think your door's not closed?
16:13 I definitely think it's not closed.
16:15 How do you feel?
16:17 It's a little better.
16:18 Like, you still have wind here.
16:19 It doesn't feel as warm.
16:21 Do me a favor, get the Hudson sprayer.
16:23 Put it right behind my head.
16:25 Oh, yeah.
16:28 That is the ticket.
16:30 Is this the spot?
16:32 This is it.
16:33 Whoa, dude.
16:39 This place is super cool.
16:44 It's all volcanic rock.
16:46 Little popcorn rocks.
16:48 Really?
16:49 The terrain is just all of a sudden going to change
16:52 and it's amazing.
16:54 Rides like a trolley truck.
16:57 Just glides over the bumps.
16:59 Rides like a $4,000 car with a brakeless.
17:03 Whoa!
17:04 Watch out!
17:05 Ow!
17:06 Ow!
17:07 Isn't this cool?
17:11 Oh, yeah, it's amazing.
17:13 See?
17:15 Yeah, this is great.
17:17 Oh!
17:18 Oh, yeah.
17:31 Oh, this is the Baja action right here.
17:35 [engines revving]
17:38 [siren]
17:47 [horn honking]
17:50 [laughing]
17:52 Oh, can't see.
17:54 You're good.
17:55 You're good.
17:56 [engines revving]
18:00 [engines revving]
18:03 Yeah!
18:17 I promised you best day at work ever, didn't I?
18:27 Oh, yeah.
18:28 Is it pretty good?
18:29 You delivered, my friend.
18:30 It's pretty great.
18:31 [birds chirping]
18:34 [music]
18:36 If you're going to get stuck, get stuck by an old mine.
18:42 Yeah, perfect.
18:43 There's plenty of crappy wood.
18:45 Well, you missed that.
18:47 We had a lot of fun.
18:49 We had already climbed that hill once.
18:50 We thought it was no big deal.
18:52 So we went to do it again, but the sand was all tore up and soft.
18:55 And as you can see, we backed up, started to get stuck,
18:58 and was rocking it back and forth, and it was just not happening.
19:02 So we're high-centered on the rear axle.
19:04 [music]
19:06 Didn't we get the lowrider stuck?
19:12 I believe so, on flat ground.
19:14 Yeah.
19:15 [engines revving]
19:17 Yeah!
19:18 Lowrider power!
19:20 [music]
19:23 [music]
19:25 Try it.
19:27 [music]
19:29 Nope.
19:33 [music]
19:35 There you go.
19:45 Oh, choke!
19:48 There we go.
19:52 Winning!
19:53 See, that's what I was trying to do when I got us stuck to begin with.
19:58 [laughing]
20:00 [engines revving]
20:02 So that was actually really good, because when he got crossed up right here,
20:19 if he had lifted and we'd gotten stuck,
20:22 we would have never gotten going again, and backing down would have been a hassle.
20:26 But he committed, and we got it.
20:28 You should see how loose it is up here.
20:30 I just came to get my jack stand.
20:34 [music]
20:36 You know, I was thinking, that's dangerous.
20:42 After six years, you'd think we wouldn't be running out of gas anymore.
20:46 Nah, you've got to give the audience what they want.
20:48 Maximum suffering?
20:50 Yeah.
20:51 Today was going so well.
20:53 We found this awesome place with a volcano.
20:56 We went hot rod off-roading.
20:58 And then we ran out of gas, which is kind of derailing our plan
21:01 to get to our hotel tonight and repaint the car.
21:04 I don't really see that happening.
21:06 We can peel skulls.
21:07 We can peel skulls tonight. We can make it our own.
21:09 New goal. Get the hell out of here.
21:12 Jump the car once. Get to the hotel. Peel skulls.
21:15 Make the car our own.
21:17 Okay.
21:19 Jump ahead.
21:21 [engine revving]
21:23 [music]
21:37 [music]
21:39 Oh, big rock.
21:53 How's the oil pan now?
21:56 Well, we managed to have an epic day in the lava pits.
21:59 I think the Hornet doesn't ride as good as the Challenger,
22:02 but, man, it's way better at jumping.
22:05 Now we get to head off to that adventure that I've been waiting for for 20 years,
22:09 the Rallycross.
22:11 [music]
22:13 We're here at Glen Helen Raceway.
22:31 This is going to be awesome.
22:32 I've wanted to do the Rallycross here
22:34 literally since I started at Hot Rod in the early '90s,
22:37 and we're finally going to do it.
22:38 I've never done this before.
22:40 It's like an autocross on dirt.
22:42 Man, this is going to be fun.
22:44 We are going to tear up this course for some guys in Subarus.
22:47 That's all right.
22:48 I think they'll appreciate a little roughness, because it's flat.
22:51 It's not like there's any jumps.
22:53 Yeah.
22:54 We'll be doing them a favor.
22:55 I don't know how this works.
22:56 Hang it out the entire time? Have fun?
22:58 Yeah, I mean, we don't have a bogey unless we grab the rental production van to race.
23:02 That's a fantastic idea.
23:03 I'm totally down with it.
23:04 In fact, I'll drive it.
23:05 You should do it.
23:06 Okay.
23:07 I bet you the minivan's faster than the Hornet.
23:09 Okay, new bogeys.
23:11 Minivan, me in it, versus Freiburger in the AMC.
23:16 That's genius.
23:18 It's time.
23:19 Yeah, I know.
23:20 Rally racing.
23:21 Never done this.
23:22 Me neither.
23:23 This is going to be awesome.
23:24 What's your plan?
23:25 Here's what I'm thinking.
23:27 I'll go first.
23:29 I'll set the tone, you know?
23:31 The tone.
23:32 How much fun am I going to have out there?
23:33 Not the baseline, but the tone.
23:35 The tone.
23:36 Okay.
23:37 The tone, because I figure the more fun, the better I run.
23:39 Not a lot of dudes driving around in minivans wearing helmets this Saturday.
23:58 Okay, traction control off.
24:01 Let's do this.
24:02 Go, baby, go.
24:04 Oh, a lot of understeer.
24:09 He's not looking fast.
24:12 Not a bit.
24:14 My confidence is going up.
24:16 Oh, damn you front wheel drive.
24:19 Why do you hate me so?
24:21 Who gets to do this?
24:23 I'm in mom's minivan sliding around corners.
24:29 You're a gazelle.
24:31 Go, man.
24:32 He's not killing it, and I'm going to feel real stupid when he's actually quicker than me.
24:37 This actually works pretty good.
24:40 I'm surprised.
24:41 Oh, oh, oh.
24:44 I may have missed that turn a little bit.
24:46 That was awesome.
24:52 95.678.
24:54 He broke below 100 seconds.
24:56 You were hitting it hard right here.
24:57 There is a corner over there where I overdrove it, went in sideways, and it just shot a wall of dirt in the air.
25:02 It was amazing.
25:03 I don't even care.
25:04 I went slower.
25:05 Well, if you can't be fast, look good.
25:06 That's right.
25:07 I guess it's my turn.
25:08 Yes.
25:09 This is for all the marbles, or rather an entire six-pack of the beer of my choice.
25:15 Oh, man.
25:16 You're right.
25:17 95 seconds.
25:18 95?
25:19 I can do it.
25:20 All right.
25:21 Good luck.
25:22 I feel good.
25:23 You're good?
25:24 Yep.
25:26 Oh, dude, it's quick.
25:29 It leaves better than the van, that's for sure.
25:31 I'm in a lot of trouble unless he flips it on its roof.
25:34 Look at it.
25:38 It just chews it up.
25:39 His warm-up lap is going to be better than my best lap.
25:46 Oh, this is fun.
25:48 I mean, he's old.
25:49 He could forget where he's at and just drive up a mountain.
25:54 That thing rips.
25:55 I want to drive it.
25:56 Whoo!
26:07 That was fun.
26:08 I can do better next time.
26:10 I was in second gear too long.
26:12 Ah!
26:13 That's a workout.
26:15 I had more fun than anyone out there, I swear.
26:18 Oh, wow.
26:19 98.2.
26:21 Maybe it's not as fast as I thought it was.
26:24 Maybe it's just all the noise from the angry 360 V8 that is just throwing me off.
26:30 He's three seconds slower than me.
26:32 I'm winded.
26:35 So it's time for some strategy.
26:38 He's only three seconds slower than me, and that's his first lap.
26:42 I should tell him this, but then he'll know how much he has to push it to beat me.
26:47 So I'm not going to tell him anything.
26:49 I'm just going to let him guess how fast he needs to push it.
26:52 And hope he makes a mistake, because roadkill.
26:55 We're jerks.
26:56 Dude, I got to tell you, this thing looks fast.
26:58 Oh, it was so fun.
27:00 I'll bet.
27:01 I had more fun than anyone out there, guaranteed.
27:03 I believe it.
27:04 I am jealous, and I wish I was driving.
27:06 Yeah?
27:07 I'm genuinely mad at you that you're not letting me drive, so I'm not going to tell you your time.
27:12 Oh, come on!
27:13 No.
27:14 No?
27:15 No.
27:16 Wow.
27:17 It looks very fast.
27:18 That's what I'll say.
27:19 I think I can be quicker next time.
27:20 I was in second gear for too long on one of the straightaways.
27:24 Okay, I feel good about this.
27:26 Have fun.
27:27 Okay, my second run.
27:31 So the question is, does he remember where he was slow and where he was fast on the course,
27:42 and can he fix that right now?
27:46 [Music]
27:49 So he got slower.
28:00 That's 100 seconds.
28:02 He already ran a 98.
28:03 He actually went slower this time.
28:06 He is in danger of losing to the mommy van.
28:09 He'll never live that down.
28:11 I won't allow it.
28:12 Let's go see him.
28:13 That didn't seem as good because I got into the thick dirt a lot, bogged it down.
28:17 I don't know.
28:19 Just tell me faster or slower.
28:21 All I need to know.
28:22 This isn't going to tell you what to do either way, but I really like to ride shotgun.
28:26 You want to ride shotgun?
28:27 And I will offer co-driving advice if you want it.
28:30 Okay.
28:31 You're going to have to put up that window, Nat.
28:33 I got zip ties.
28:34 Okay.
28:35 Okay.
28:36 What year is this thing?
28:37 '73.
28:38 '73 Hornet.
28:39 Ready?
28:42 Here we go.
28:43 Ready for more fun than we've ever had in a dirt car?
28:47 Yeah, buddy.
28:48 It's bumpier.
28:53 You're doing great.
28:54 I want you to know something.
28:57 You need to make up three seconds if you want to beat the minivan.
29:01 Lost it.
29:05 Yeah!
29:06 That was awesome.
29:07 Oh, yeah!
29:21 This car is badass.
29:22 That is the most fun I've ever had in a dirt car.
29:26 I'm going to have to give it a go.
29:28 I'm going to have to give it a go.
29:30 I'm going to have to give it a go.
29:32 That is the most fun we've ever had in a dirt car on Roadkill.
29:36 That was the greatest.
29:40 Yeah, this car is pretty good.
29:42 This is one of our better purchases.
29:44 This ranks up there with Nascarlo, the Rotson.
29:47 General Mayhem.
29:48 All of them.
29:49 Yeah.
29:50 All of them.
29:51 If this had a jump, it would be everything that we need in a racetrack.
29:54 Plans for the future.
29:55 Definitely.
29:56 So, midway through your lap, I said, "You need to make up three seconds or you're losing
30:01 to Mom's minivan."
30:02 I didn't hear that.
30:03 I was driving too hard.
30:05 There's no way.
30:06 Yeah.
30:07 What?
30:08 This lap you just ran was 101 seconds.
30:11 Get out!
30:12 The lap before that was 100.
30:14 Your first lap, your smoothest lap, 98.
30:17 You lost by three.
30:19 That's unbelievable.
30:22 And the crazy part is when you took off in that first lap, I was like, "I'm done."
30:26 It looks so fast.
30:27 The thing is, I'm hanging it out so hard and overdriving it and correcting and getting into
30:32 sand.
30:33 It's got to be faster, right?
30:34 Like, if you drove the thing to win instead of drove it for fun?
30:38 Yeah, I guess.
30:40 Man, I'm stoked.
30:42 This was fun.
30:43 It was.
30:44 Now, beer me.
30:45 I owe you beer.
30:46 Yes.
30:47 I'm down for that.
30:48 Where do I get beer around here, though?
30:50 I don't know.
30:51 We're probably going to have to walk for it.
30:53 Worth it.
30:55 Well, the worst thing that happened in this episode of Roadkill is that nothing went wrong.
31:00 Nothing broke.
31:01 That car was way too reliable, but I still managed to fail.
31:05 Yeah, Finnegan outran me at the rally cross in a Dodge minivan.
31:09 Even though I had V8 power and the big old tires and everything, but you know what?
31:13 I was just hanging it sideways, having an awesome time, and that's what this car is
31:17 all about.
31:18 It could be faster if driven more conservatively, but why would you do that?
31:22 No, you need to drive it even more aggressively.
31:24 You know what?
31:25 The Hornet?
31:26 It belongs at Dirt Fish.
31:28 You think it can outrun the General Mayhem?
31:31 Well, maybe, just maybe, you'll find out in an upcoming episode of Roadkill.
31:37 Support companies that support Roadkill.
31:41 Buy your speed parts at JEGS.com.
31:44 We're not getting pulled over with that at all.
31:50 No, that's not illegal.
31:52 Half the town just hit the dirt.
31:54 dirt.
31:56 (whooshing)