Drag Racing Against Cops
Each Wednesday at the Sonoma Raceway in California, higher school students line up on the drag strip and go one particular on 1 … with a police vehicle. It is all element of a program hoping to place a good ‘spin’ on law enforcement, supplying teens with a protected space to hit the accelerator. Now in its 23rd year, “Top the Cops” was initial founded by Kevin McKinnie, a retired police officer searching for a way to support curb illegal drag racing. By harnessing teens’ need for speed, McKinnie and his fellow cops are assisting to get much more kids off the street scene while fostering a positive partnership in between law enforcement and the nearby neighborhood.
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18th California Hot Rod Reunion @ Famoso Raceway
Came across Mike Mitchell The World’s Fastest Hippie’s ’72 or ’73 Cuda. Mike passed away in July 2000. Dev or Devin (hope I did not screw up his name) owns the vehicle now. He plans on keeping the very same color and design and style when painted. Demands lots of function but I’m confident he’ll get it up and running one day. The car did not make it to the track according to Dev because the automobile was taken from Mike. He owed a debt to some tuff guys/drug dealers and they came and took the automobile. If you appear actual tough you see a faded out line" Mike Mitchell" painted on the yellow banner on the side of the automobile. Some particulars on the body look various then the psychedelic painted Cuda he use to drive , that paint job was equivalent to the Corvette psychedelic paint scheme. Dev or anyone else out there please give me some a lot more info on this automobile. Here is a short story about Mike Mitchell here
www.draglist.com/Phil/Views/Farewell to the Hippie – Mike Mitchell Passes On.htm
By ATOMIC Hot Hyperlinks on 2009-10-16 10:51:14
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The kids just hates cops
Some of these kids r hella spoiled I have a e46 but I payed for it like dam
They call it beat the meat i mean heat
OMG
If only they did this down here in Florida maybe everybody wouldn’t hate the police down here as much as they do.
Four bangers would beat those cops
How the fuck are these kids driving those cars I was riding my bike my senior year
I want this I my town!
Holy shit I’m gonna do this. I live15 mins away from this track.
Parker from vehicle virgins sister @ 0:58
When an IROC-Z rolls up to the dragstrip
You throw in the towel.
Actually the police force do this in las vegas, and they don’t use stock cars. They modify the police cars to well over 1000 hp sometimes and drag race kids so they don’t street race.
You will never beat a cops ego!
That’s cool that they do that. Love it when the cops remind us they’re human
"Well now that I know i can outrun the Cops, i’ll do this on the street."
I bet a there gonna be that one kid who beats a cop and then gonna go on a high speed chase thinking he could out run them
Hey this is cool I’m going to be one of those cops
im the type of person to go to this and then be like ohhh shit the po po are here and drive home
Oh it was all just rich teenagers. Lit
Shout out to the kid with a firebird
you’re probably wondering why these kids have really good cars, 3 words; privileged white kids
All these teens and there cars mommy & daddy bought
not my idea of a drag race
Its good’n’al but dragracing aint that fun, trackracing or drifting is
these kids are not our future, the ones not doing this type of shit are our future
1:52 She looks really badass with this Mustang behind her
Drag racing an automatic. What’s the point in that?
So nice Cars at that age already
there’s one black guy at 1:11
I respect these cops
This is genius. I want to love the police instead of fearing them. I’m going to try to make something like this work in Tucson AZ!! Wish me luck
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Is that vehicle virgin’s sister at 0:58? Lol
I live in Santa Rosa
Oi! Ive been there
I drive a used cop car so this would be perfect for me!
I wish I could do that
And did that one girl have a gt 350
I wanna know where this place is lmao I’d race
Wow a Ford Explorer versus normal cars what a raise ? this is the stupidest thing ever
I have seen some of the races. It is pretty cool.
I live there
Would they not be like "oh I won tht means I can escape from the cops after I illegally street race
What is this boring piece of rich kids racing cops.
Might just stay on the streets racing till morning.
Who’s paying for all this crap GREAT! Lawsuit city here we come!
CHP Dodge Chargers are OP
"Do soemthing good" goes work out the engine of the vehicles instead of actually stopping bad cops lol
porkers sister!
I’m wanna start this
We need this at sacramento race track!
It would be nice to see who wins
Doesn’t Phoenix or somewhere have a "beat the heat" event where you race cops in impounded cars before they get crushed?