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Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Automotive
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For Sale: Every Car From Every Piece Of Rat Fink Art Ever
Remember Ed Roth's Rat Fink art? You don't see it around as much as you used to, but it used to be inescapable at every classic car show. Every Nova and GTO would have a sticker in its window, that rat sticking out through a muscle car's roof with a massive grin on its face and a shifter in its hand. You may not see that art in the wild as much in 2025, but it turns out you can still drive a car that Rat Fink himself would love: A 1971 Camaro with a blower sticking out through where its hood should be. This split bumper Camaro is the kind of classic muscle that featured heavily in Roth's art: Drag car aesthetics taken to their extreme, fat rear tires and a chrome supercharger with an intake that sits just about at the height of the driver's head. It has the kind of godawful flame-shaped steering wheel that was popular in the early 2000s. It's perfect. Read more: You've Probably Never Heard Of The Coolest Canadian Car Ever Built Beneath the aesthetic — and the bald tires — this is genuinely a proper drag car. Turbo 350 transmission, Detroit locker differential, a fuel cell and Wilwood brakes. Oddly, there's no roll cage in the interior, making it unclear whether the car's ever actually run a sanctioned quarter-mile. The seller claims the Camaro has "great street manners," so maybe it's lived its life as a road car first. Just, a road car that looks cool as hell. The seller will even include a hood if you want one, though it won't be cut out for the blower. Do you really need a hood, though, with such a beautiful engine up front? You should daily this Camaro with those chromed heads gleaming in the sun, the way it was meant to be. Live your Rat Fink dreams in this split-bumper Camaro, and maybe you can bring the art style back into vogue for us all. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
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Magic's death race set Aetherdrift gives us the goblins we deserve: ones who look like a psychobilly album cover
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Aetherdrift is a Magic: The Gathering expansion whose designers looked at Mad Max and Death Race 2000 and said, yeah, we can put some of that in our wizard game. Sure, we absolutely can take this idea of motorsport as a violent gladiatorial contest, and theme a set of cards for our dorkus malorkus card game around it. No worries. The concept has it that there's a race taking teams across three different planes of reality at top speed, and those teams include magical beastriders and undead charioteers. It's tough to pick a favorite out of all the teams when the options include pirate sharks and spiders piloting the bodies of a previous generation of spider-drivers, but I'm immediately partial to the Goblin Rocketeers. Imagine the kind of Rat Fink artwork you might see on a greaser's tattoo, poking out from under their rockabilly shirt with flames on it. A character with bloodshot eyes and a tongue like a dog leaning out the window as they hoon down the highway in a vehicle with pipes blasting fire and smoke. That image is the Goblin Rocketeers' whole deal. Their backstory is that they're trying to break a fundamental speed limit of physics as a way of letting their deity, the BOOSTGOD, into the multiverse. "No brakes" is their religion, and I suspect they'd consider Cannonball Run a holy text. Aetherdrift includes a couple of mechanics to facilitate the idea of speed. Some cards let you Start Your Engines, which gives you a speed of 1 and lets you increase it by one point a turn if you damage your opponent. Once you hit 4 that's Max Speed, which unlocks bonuses that differ based on the cards you've played, but might let you draw two cards in any situation where you'd ordinarily draw one, or otherwise increase the tempo of play. The other new mechanic is Exhaust. Like the scene in any Fast and the Furious movie where someone hits the nitrous, Exhaust abilities are one-time boosts that let you kick things up a notch. Our preview card, Afterburner Expert (with art by April Prime), is an example of that. For a cost of two and two green, you get to put two +1/+1 counters on the card, which represents a goblin driver called Speedbump thumbing the switch on a rocket designed for velocity rather than stability. Afterburner Expert can also come back from being swatted down by a Shivan Dragon or whatever, because if you use the Exhaust ability of another card they return from your discard pile, ready to hit the nitro and wipe out on a corner again. Which is how it should be. Image 1 of 2 Image 2 of 2 Aetherdrift will be racing into release on February 14. There will be a pre-release event on February 7 at your local WPN store.
