What happened to auto enthusiasm in DC after the demise of the infamous Metro-Plex underground street racing spot?

"Smoke" documents recent automotive performance enthusiasm in the DC metro area. Exciting, current content features real people, in real cars and real races, having real fun.

Four sections (street scenes, interviews, antics, and events) pack SMOKE with over two hours of footage from local hot spots, gatherings, and events. "Smoke" sports burn-outs, drifting, performance driving, rock crawling, detailed interviews, auto/motocross, motorcycling, street and track racing, stunts, random antics, and much more.

With something for everyone, fast-paced and well-made, it's like war coverage with cameras in the action, only much more fun. It's a thoroughly entertaining documentary packed with cool stuff that matters...definitely a keeper.

Out now with its newest Underground Street Racing DVD, "SMOKE," happily without posed shots, fakey staged scenes, or pricey "runs," CarAntics is all about fun in and around the Nation's Capital. And, then some.

Constant high action. Among many other things, find out some of what happened to the DC scene after airborne and mounted feds busted up Metro (per Teckademics' first video, when they were hiding in the dumpster).

Over 2 solid hours of real meat.

Cut very tightly, with no dead-time or standing around --every moment is crammed with intensity so you're always moving, seeing and hearing something-- CA SMOKE is total immersion in the performance oriented lifestyle.

Made like a documentary, SMOKE looks like a film. None of it is plain-Jane raw video. You've likely never seen a Street Racing DVD put together and polished like this one. From a smooth Ferrari to crazy Frank's 3-cylinder Geo (!), we cover some of what happens in DC after hours.

Professional bands from around the world and top quality sound and production editing make the soundtrack and overall impact, look and feel absolutely unreal --it really stands out, loud and clear.

Part One: The Racing

Part 1 is Street Racing footage, from jittery-nervous bystanders to seasoned, in-car participants. Some of it is hand-held, much of it is shock mounted or on-tripod. We have footage from the infamous Metro, footage from a hot strip outside of Baltimore, and some light-light runs leaving DC. Running helter-skelter from state troopers who sneak up along a major highway in Largo to the east of DC at 3am, we keep the cams right in the action -- on the starting line, between the burning tires, and running down the road in escape! (Here's an amusing poem about almost being thrown out the back of a convertible as it sped away...) We have a hill-top view of the scene during a top-speed wreck and its frantic aftermath about 10 miles southeast of DC. Not much is closer to real. Scanners and walkies keep two steps ahead of the feds...well, most of the time! Don't miss the "titty-tree," girls flashing, infant flaggers and the several interviews with street racers and enthusiasts including one with a fellow recently charged in connection with the notorious Fort Washington arson fires! Hair-raising, hair-brained midnight races amongst rigs in Baltimore. We captured on three synchronous cameras a seemingly endless burn/spin-out in a defunct biotech company's parking lot...until the neighbors starting showing up to photograph license plates! A nice montage with some real cuties covers what happened over the hot summer at the strip near Waldorf, Maryland, a few miles southeast of DC. If you like real street racing and variety, it's pretty tough to beat SMOKE.

Part Two: The Scene

Part 2 focuses on the scene and those being seen. Amidst several montages, we interview Rockvillians, enthusiasts, every-day racers and others about their custom rides. Nice cars. Nicer butts!

Part Three: The Antics

Part 3 is all about Antics. Rock crawling. Split-screen Auto-Cross comparison runs. ATV idiocy. Mormon-temple Mayhem and stupid parking lot burnouts, general screwing around, dodging a park ranger in a jeep in a creek in a state park. We hit up the Moto-Cross dirtbikers at a track out in West Virginia. And then we followed one of them to a restricted militia shooting range in Mount Airy, Maryland where we encountered a trained DC SWAT officer and an unruly band of high-powered weapons enthusiasts shooting all types of assault rifles and military grade armaments including a ferocious XM-107 50-caliber sniper rifle with armor-piercing rounds. Boom! Words do not convey the gutteral, percussive impact of those blasts. The target car, as you will see, like tinfoil, stood no chance! Mustn't forget the after-midnight street racers' soiree at the abandoned, police-patrolled Glenn Dale Tuberculosis sanitarium just north of DC: 20+ decrepit, dangerous and biohazardous buildings on 200+ acres in Prince Georges county, with now submerged underground tunnels and several, multi-hundred room treatment structures: If you ever wanted to go inside without going inside, this might be your ticket. These bored street racers guys made it through and split. See the haunts section of carantics.com for much more info! To maintain the mix, we include several light-to-light runs near Fort Washington, Maryland and a multi-thousand-dollar NSX vs. Supra race.

Part Four: The Rest

Part 4 features a 10+ minute solid block of drifting at the US Drift Nationals #1 in Manassas, Virginia. We hit up the hot Funkmaster Flex car show in Ocean City, Maryland and really (!) closely follow two hotties as they romp around to various show cars. Nice, nice, close-up footage and crotch-shots. A few interviews. We also visit the 75+80 Dragway in Maryland for various runs, and we hit-up BSR in West Virginia for some detailed, in-car, military demonstrations on how they do forward and reverse 180's (bootlegs and j-turns). Wicked. We also take a ride-along with a professional driver in real and simulated runs up to NASCAR speeds on the Jefferson track at Summit Point Speedway in West Virginia. When cops roll in up top of the strip in Brandywine and then also block off the back escape, somehow we cram into a souped up Mustang that spins out in high-speed reverse, up, over the curb, ripping the exhaust off, as dozens of cars tear by fleeing from the cops! Talk about pumping adrenaline! You'll see.

CarAntics SMOKE is far beyond another mindless, thrown-together, jumbled hodge-podge collection of raw clips. Instead, it's Street Racing for smart people --put together to tell tidbits and stories, with purpose, with skill, with excitement, with top quality fun, and in a way meant to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Trailers, hundreds of pics, a burgeoning "haunts" section, user forums and much more information is available at carantics.com

DC's Naughty Secrets

In case the mass media had you fooled, the buttoned-down bureaucratic atmosphere positively blows out of this federal city after hours. Find out about DC's darker secrets. Get in on some of what you've been missing. The fun happens nightly, if you know where to look. Under-priced to over-deliver: $13 total, and we pay the $2 US shipping and $1 paypal fees. SMOKE includes a per-user code for VIP access to the private parts of the carantics.com website that's in perpetual development. If you're underage, foolhardy, or have any involvement or association with law enforcement, we don't want you to see SMOKE, because, frankly, it seems to push limits, and no one's really sure what those limits might be. Your purchase is your agreement to our terms of purchase, use, and viewing, which are, essentially: responsibility for any ill effects or consequences are entirely your own.

"Take the action scenes from 'The Fast and The Furious,' add in a bit of Real World, and you've got Smoke." --DIPstick Magazine

MIRRORS is the upcoming companion to SMOKE, with subsequent follow-up footage that ties in with the above: street racing, cop chases, helicopters, hiding in a trunk while 30 unhappy racers get ticketed and towed, fleeing from capture, detailed interviews that don't suck, weapons/pistols/gauntlet assault-weapons free-for-all, Miss Chief wielding a pump 12gauge, more Glen Dale, sun-hot Ocean City hotties, a bi-chickie kiss, Maryland crash-up derby, unfortunately real fatalities, Hyper-Fest at top speed on the live track like you've never seen it before, more midnight runs, running and capture near Dulles, Virginia --more of everything, including plenty of new scenarios, stories, scenes and stuff.

Note: everything we sell is professionally made, brand new and sealed. You won't get bootleg, cd-r, imports, or any used crap. Buy with confidence. We ship 1st class USPO. To keep costs low, we accept PAYPAL only. Even if you don't buy SMOKE, you're welcome online -- join the fun at carantics.com