One would think that a guy with a last name like his would have a slightly tighter grip on automotive reality. But in writing about Tire Tracks a documentary meditation on Stonington, ME's burnout junkies, the NYT's David Carr makes a play for highbrow cred drops a Willem DeKooning ref after asserting that the activity is, "accompanied by enough noise that it can make a Nascar race sound like a chamber concert," leaving us to wonder if he has any idea that NASCAR is in fact an acronym, and that a stock car race is generally louder than a dude tossing burnouts out the back of his Flows-and-Ed-le-brock-equipped Silverado. Unless said dude's Silverado happens to be running a Pro Mod motor. Also, we wonder if Carr's aware of the West Coast work of Guy Overfelt. Further proof that the New York Times is to cars as Dubya is to black people. [Thanks to Pas for the tip.]

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