2004 Power Tool Drag Races
June 16, 2004 5:47 PM Subscribe
Pictures are up from the 2004 Power Tool Drag Races (brought to SF by Charlie and Jim), an event in which people retrofit store bought power tools for racing down a track. The Ridden Class re-rigs tools to locomote vehicles. Several action-packed movies (and one boring one) can be found here. Our own CTP (in hat-->) took 2nd!
[Note: the Qbox site lists multiple photo galleries off-site. Some of them have NSFW pictures.]
[Note: the Qbox site lists multiple photo galleries off-site. Some of them have NSFW pictures.]
whee!
posted by pekar wood at 7:45 PM on June 16, 2004
posted by pekar wood at 7:45 PM on June 16, 2004
I miss SF (and the lovely folks from last year's PTDR!).
posted by gleuschk at 8:26 PM on June 16, 2004
posted by gleuschk at 8:26 PM on June 16, 2004
Wow - I'm infamous again ;)
Anyway, the link in the post from the word "retrofit" happens to be of my car - it's the one that doesn't look like a big rat. Its name is "ROADRASH", named after the scarring it received when it fell off someone's truck on Hwy 1. Their tragedy became our winning(ish) racer.
Our best time was 2.4 seconds down the 75' long track. We made it all the way to the last race where Greg Leyh's 440 volt powered skil saw just barely beat us. We just tell people we won the 120 volt class :) (y'all remember Greg Leyh? World's biggest Tesla coil builder)
For a first try I'm very happy with second place.
BTW - if everything goes according to plan this tiny slice of mayhem will turn into 4 hours worth of TV on the Discovery Channel later this year. Look for me and my dad designing, building, and racing our machine.
posted by ctp at 11:50 PM on June 16, 2004
Anyway, the link in the post from the word "retrofit" happens to be of my car - it's the one that doesn't look like a big rat. Its name is "ROADRASH", named after the scarring it received when it fell off someone's truck on Hwy 1. Their tragedy became our winning(ish) racer.
Our best time was 2.4 seconds down the 75' long track. We made it all the way to the last race where Greg Leyh's 440 volt powered skil saw just barely beat us. We just tell people we won the 120 volt class :) (y'all remember Greg Leyh? World's biggest Tesla coil builder)
For a first try I'm very happy with second place.
BTW - if everything goes according to plan this tiny slice of mayhem will turn into 4 hours worth of TV on the Discovery Channel later this year. Look for me and my dad designing, building, and racing our machine.
posted by ctp at 11:50 PM on June 16, 2004
BTW - the racer in the "boring" movie was actually one of my favorites. It's an old can opener, and in a packed field of craziness, and speed, and noise, it's losing run was pure poetry.
posted by ctp at 11:52 PM on June 16, 2004
posted by ctp at 11:52 PM on June 16, 2004
BTW - the racer in the "boring" movie was actually one of my favorites. It's an old can opener, and in a packed field of craziness, and speed, and noise, it's losing run was pure poetry.
yay mike! he'd hoped to be racing against one of the many crash-and-burners, and thus win with the slowest power tool ever, but alas, it was not to be.
posted by judith at 1:29 PM on June 17, 2004
yay mike! he'd hoped to be racing against one of the many crash-and-burners, and thus win with the slowest power tool ever, but alas, it was not to be.
posted by judith at 1:29 PM on June 17, 2004
it's losing run was pure poetry.
I totally thought so too! "Boring" was kind of a joke, a lead-in to the film. The truly tedious movies were the 20-second shots of the cameraman's feet :)
posted by scarabic at 2:47 AM on June 18, 2004
I totally thought so too! "Boring" was kind of a joke, a lead-in to the film. The truly tedious movies were the 20-second shots of the cameraman's feet :)
posted by scarabic at 2:47 AM on June 18, 2004
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