In life, some things just don’t work out. And while you can get upset about a plan gone awry, it’s always more fun to just improvise a different plan- just like Mike Musto and the guys on Big Muscle did this week. Check out the unusual but entertaining concept the crew of DRIVE came up with after their third-gen Camaro feature car broke down during their Big Muscle shoot this week above. Can anyone say Battle Wagon?
For those of you who don’t know what the Battle Wagon is, it’s a 1992 Chevy Caprice wagon owned by the Big Muscle Garage and driven around to the filming of every Big Muscle episode. It’s not potent, modified, killer, sick or even remotely cool, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a hell of a lot of fun.
So where would you take the slowest car ever to be featured on Big Muscle? Well, the dragstrip of course!
With just over 74k miles on it, the Battle Wagon is a relatively unabused piece of machinery. Still, that doesn’t mean much considering we’re talking about a major grocery-getter from the 90s that, although it has a V8 under the hood, only produces about 180hp. But then again, when you’re drag racing for consistency rather than speed, something with four wheels, an engine and some sort of seat structure is all you need.
To those of you who run consistently fast cars down the drag strip, this may not seem like the case, but as Musto demonstrates over and over, even a grandma-car of the 90s can be fun on the drag strip, even when running 17-second quarter miles. The question really is, now that they’ve discovered the lost art of drag racing anything and everything, what will the Big Muscle crew come up with next? Â