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VIDEO: Hot-Rodded Power Wheels Will Kick Your Inner Child's Butt
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Posted on 03/21/2009 5:42:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono

Remember the coolest kid on your block when you were a kid? The one with the miniature, mostly plastic Power Wheels car -- you know, the cherry-red Mustang, or pink Jeep -- that he or she would take cruising around the block at a brisk 2.5 miles per hour?

Well, that kid's got nothing on these guys, a group of friends who took a bunch of disused kid-cars, stripped the wimpy electric motors and batteries, and installed -- in their places -- gas-powered go-kart engines. The results? Well, watch the video above to see for yourself -- assuming you don't mind listening to a little "Psychobilly Freakout" while enjoying some gratuitous power-sliding action.


TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: car; powerwheels

1 posted on 03/21/2009 5:42:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Bitchin’!


2 posted on 03/21/2009 5:51:33 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (We have nothing to fear but Obama himself.)
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To: JoeProBono

I think I just found my next project. I have been looking for A good excuse to get back into TIG welding.


3 posted on 03/21/2009 5:53:11 PM PDT by Clay Moore ("Tax fraud is patriotic:" Timothy Geithner)
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To: kalee

ping!

The owner of the cherry red mustang that lives at our house wants to know if Papa can soup hers up a tad...lol

She probably won’t care as much tomorrow though...since her daddy bought her the remote control car to end all remote control cars... (insert the annoying grunt grunt noises from that old Tim Allen tool sitcom). A neighbor races them in his spare time and advised him on which one to buy...it’s currently a clear mustang, but pink paint was purchased, and a sticker kit. *sigh*

By the way...I’m glad my car doesn’t take the same gas...little car gas is some expensive stuff!


4 posted on 03/21/2009 5:53:29 PM PDT by Cailleach
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To: JoeProBono

Cool!


5 posted on 03/21/2009 5:54:24 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: JoeProBono
Cute
Here's another one


Ford 2.3 Liter 4-Cylinder Engine
155 horsepower, 160 Ft. lbs. of Torque
Cruise Control
Heating and Air Conditioning
Hand laid fiberglass body
4:10 Rear axle Ratio
Ford 5-Speed Automatic
Transmission (W / Reverse)

For the Low Low price of $32,955
6 posted on 03/21/2009 5:59:22 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Mike Darancette

My husband wants to sell our home and move wherever those guys live. He thinks they’d be fun neighbors.


7 posted on 03/21/2009 6:11:54 PM PDT by trimom
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To: JoeProBono

They shouldn’t be doing that without helmets...and maybe kevlar body armor.


8 posted on 03/21/2009 6:27:47 PM PDT by TruthHound (“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.” —Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: JoeProBono; glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; SouthTexas

An updated ON ANY SUNDAY...


9 posted on 03/21/2009 6:36:04 PM PDT by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: JoeProBono

this is the kind of thing that makes liberals eyeballs bleed
I LOVE IT!!!!!


10 posted on 03/21/2009 6:46:01 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: JoeProBono

This is awesome! I can’t wait to show my 17yr old ‘gearhead’ son. I predict his sister’s pink barbie jeep will have a new life.


11 posted on 03/21/2009 9:01:59 PM PDT by buschbaby (Real change will come when everyone is as angry as I am.)
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To: buschbaby

12 posted on 03/21/2009 9:11:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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