We have a WINNER!!! Fastbak390 made up the winning caption, and will take home a pair of Ridetech Smooth Body shocks, plus 6 Ridetech shirts to share with his buddies. There were tons of great entries, and people are still sending them in just to be funny, even though the competition is over. Do you like being able to win stuff by interacting with us? Well, then let us know. We have some other cool opportunities where you might be able to win stuff as well. We’ll keep you posted.
OH… You want to know the winning caption? Then here you go.
“When I told you to lift on the back straight, that wasn’t what I had in mind.”
Original Blog Item:
After finishing 2nd overall in the 2013 American Street Car Series “Run To The Coast” event, Bret Voelkel from Ridetech was checking out some photos of his car. It was then that he saw this interesting one. Apparently at somewhere north of 125 miles an hour, the “bump” on the back stretch of the road course becomes more of a jump when your hot rod has 600 plus horsepower and only weighs 2500 pounds. And while the front tires are on the ground in this photo, we’re sure they weren’t just a nanosecond before hand. Look at how high off the ground the grill shell is. Normally that bad boy tries to touch in driveways.
So, congrats to Bret, but lets have some fun here. Caption this photo. Who knows, if someone comes up with something creative enough we just might be able to get Bret to send you a Ridetech T-Shirt.
UPDATE!!!!!! BRET JUST CALLED AND SAID THAT THE BEST CAPTION, AS JUDGED BY HE AND I AND BRIAN WILL WIN A PAIR OF NEW RIDETECH SMOOTHBODY SHOCKS, AND 6 T-SHIRTS SO YOU CAN SHARE THEM WITH YOUR BUDDIES!
Not exactly the air suspension system we were looking for…
“Ridetech. Redefining air ride.”
“Ridetech. First in flight, Second to none”
“Air Ride……We Prove It!”
This is how you do a backwards wheelie.
Don’t you know, real hot rods are always higher in the rear. It’s all about the stance guys….
Got Air?
Bret, to his crew: “I specified nitrogen-pressurized rear shocks, not helium!”
Now that is a set of brakes!
New for the year 2025….The Ridetech/Hovertech G2000 reverse gravity generator….. This system provides the smoothest ride…on the this planet or Mars….. Luke Skywalker states…”This system could do the Caldera run in 3 parcepts…..and dust any Tie fighter out there”
“Do a wheelie in reverse, they said. It’ll be fun, they said…”
Haha. I told you putting that plexiglass speed bump on the track would be funny.
I told you bikes aren’t the only things that can do a stoppy!
OK, Guy’s I know your all engineers, But when I said put gas in the tank I didn’t mean for you to fill it with helium.
Ridetech seeks to broaden the scope of it applications by appealing to those hitting the road course, smoothly cruising the highways, or even competing with Southern California’s most robust hydraulic equipped Impalas in hopping contests.
As you can see, Ridetech suspensions are capable of helping a car to pull the wheels in reverse!
Wait! I said the Ridetech Dial, not the Maglev Dial!
Chassis Tech strikes again!
Now watch how gently the new Grav-Tech anti-gravity coilover smooths even the most violent of road irregularities. So revolutionary that SCORE has already banned them!
Ooooops!…Was that a lambo?
Hold my beer…..Watch this!
“Sure the helium was cheaper to buy than nitrogen, but it’s playing hell with the weight distribution”.
Just another day in the office for Ride Tech’s chief product tester extraordinaire Air Bret!
He abuses them so we can use them.
Ridetech: Faster that a Lamborghini and now shooting for planes!
Got brakes?
Eat your heart out David Blaine!!!!!!
Eat your heart out David Blaine!!!!
Eat your heart out David Blaine!!!!!!!
Eat your heart out David Blaine!!!!!!!!
Traction? We don’t need no steenking traction!
Ride tech proving how soft and smooth the ride is on their cruise setting. You can’t feel what you dont touch!
Oh yeah. Let’s see Ken Block try this!!
1. Lift kit ? I don’t need no stinkin lift kit
2. GOT LIFT ?
3. this is how you put the donk in the badonkadonl
I like big butts and I can not lie…
– I bet the 1st place winner cant do endo’s!
– Someone forgot to hook up the rear breaks!!
At RideTech,
We like kicking our heels up on a Saturday drive…
“Bad Moon Risin’ “
Watch me stick this landing…
And now for the Hoopty Hop… I mean Humpty Hop.
Who said only bikes do nose wheelies.
“Approaching the finish line on what would have possibly been the best lap of the day, Chad Reynolds, at the wheel of Ridetech’s bitchin ’33 coupe suddenly realized why it was a bad idea to have Taco Bell for lunch.”
what goes down must come up.
RideTech…
“We ain’t whistlin’ Dixie!
Where”s that motocross course at again?
OOPS, I farted!!!
Rides like floating on a pillow of air the sales guy said ……..
Ride Tech 33 Ford just dances through the cones
A ride so smooth you don’t even feel the road
Bubba,I told you we mounted that there wing up side down.
I seem to be going nowhere really fast.
Ridetech now engineered with flubber!!
Second place???? Jeesh, whats a guy gotta do t win!!!!
“Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly…um, never mind on the wings”
Brett has proved you can do a Stoppie with a race car !!!!!
I don’t understand why we slowed down guy’s! I thought I was on level ground there must be a dip in the track!
So I told the rollback driver, no chains, I will hold the brake, just haul me back to the shop quickly.
our engineers tried heilumride, but found that air ride was the best way to go!
air ride–the ONLY way to fly!!
1. One small “jump” for Ridetech, One giant leap for mankind!
2, Houston we have a problem!
3. The Voelkel has landed!
No matter how determined it became, a car built by a bunch of honkys just never could quite get down and dance like a lowrider with hydraulics.
Proving Nitrogen isn’t really needed for autocross the pit crew thought it would be funny to put Helium in the rear tires.
For my next trick I’ll drive the course will ALL FOUR tires off the ground.
Too much front bias.
Dang it, Bret is leaning forward again… I told you he can’t see the gauge cluster.
DId you hear the Ridetech car was bouncing all over the course?
I wouldn’t say I’m Shocked. . .
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
DId you hear the Ridetech car was bouncing all over the course?
I wouldn’t say I’m (puts sunglasses on) Shocked. . .
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
“def feels loose entering the turns”
I told you we should have run the exhaust out the sides but nooooo….you wanted to run the turndowns.
Too much Z-bar.
OK….Who put the speed bumps on the autocross?
SILLY CROTCH ROCKETS, ENDOS ARE FOR HOT RODS TOO!!!!
ungrounded to the ground
Who messed with the brake bias?
Alright, who’s the wise guy with the remote for my air ride?!
Hopscotch anyone?
Here comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the road course trail
When I say whoa, I mean whoa!
OOPS, I HAD BEANS FOR LUNCH
you want WHAT for this piece of crap! hell , the handbrake doesnt even work!
Brett,quit farting!
Introducing the new air lift shock system.
Just how big was that cone!??!?
“roger that tower, AirRide 153 touching down”
THIS THING DRIVES SO SMOOTH IT’S LIKE RIDING ON AIR
The only thing tighter than the handling was the drivers butthole at this moment.
“No one warned me about speed bumps on the track!”
The Duke of autocross..yee haw..
Running a road coast always gets the 33 a little excited!
This thing launchs awesome in reverse !
“The Low- Ri-der, rides a little higher…”
“hey!!! i am a car that can do rock-n-roll!!”………..”oops!!! …. hope no one saw me”
YEA BUDDY!!!!!
See? If you were running Ridetech air suspension, you wouldn’t have to jack up the car and adjust the suspension mid track.
“First in flight, second to none”
i KNEW that 33 was under weight / i dont have that problem with my crown vic
I got your Air Ride-Right Here!
Midwesterners should NOT eat off the Taco Truck outside the base gate!
Tell Pastrana I got his stoppies covered- Working on the backflip!
Well, there’s your problem.
That front spoiler was just what we needed for the reverse wheelie.
I knew we shoulda made this thing all wheel drive!
I said I needed better SUSPENSION . . . not SUSPENDSION ! ! !
All right, who put the body on backward? Very funny, guys…
1. I thought they closed El Toro MCAS.
2.DEJA VU — I seem to recall this situation being in a F-18 herer at El Toro!
Willy bet us he could make his girlfriends lady parts pop out… he won.
1. When I told you to lift on the back straight, that wasn’t what I had in mind.
2. Although Colin Chapman had success with the “add lightness” philosophy in his sports cars, taking it to the extreme can have dire consequences.
3. Installed traction bars, but still have wheel hop. Any ideas?
Email me. [email protected]
Holy $$$$ Batman this new Ridetech suspension is like riding on a cloud!
Should have used AFCO shocks—problem solved.
Note to self,” Need to fire my new mechanic, he put the front end in the rear…
WHO FARTED!!!!!!!
I knew that big bowl of beans for lunch was a bad idea!
Dem brakes and shocks are sooo good !
The new hi-flyin’ air chassis for 2014: Ridetechs Ultimate Zero-G Stinkbug Suspension….Nose a Draggin, Tail a Waggin!
Bitch, I can run this track on two wheels and still smoke you!
I thought AirRide procucts were supposed to REDUCE wheelhop.
The newest item in RideTech’s catalog: Dixie horns!! YeeeHaaaw!
Is that John Schneider driving?
I suggested we put a “wing” on the back, but I think you guys missed the point…
Catching some air on the course and a looking for a clean pair of shorts in the pits!
After these spy photos of the new top secret Prototype Black Hawk, there is no way the government can deny we have had alien contact….
TURN OFF THE MAGNET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adjustable ride height ?
We prove it in the real world !
i left on him but the trans wouldnt shift out of low
Everybody throw your wheels in the air and wavem like you just dont care…..
If I going to die at least I’m going to look really really cool doing it.
I TOLD YOU GUYS NOT TO EAT BEANS!!!!
Bret, on the radio: “Ouch! Was that a Bilstein shock I just ran over?”
NO! ….DONT TOUCH THAT………………………….button!
Our RideTech suspension is six inches above the rest.
RideTech suspension you can feel and SEE.
Air brakes that really work.
Extenze: #1 in Male Enhancement for your car.
These shocks are great it’s like riding on air.
Um. I think we need a little more rear brake bias.
Okay, Who’s the wise guy who set the fake red pylon under the differential!
Gre-eeg, I think we need to soften up the rear suspension!
I told you to use nitrogen not helium when you filled the tires.
This rear end lift, at speed, is gonna be a problem when we go to Bonneville…
Now that’s Air Ride…
Congrats, Fastbak390!
Congrats Fastbak390!
Like riden on air…..nuff said
Being in the car at that particular moment, I had a couple captions of my own:
* Shit…I just lost the driveshaft!
* Most definetly need a bigger rear spoiler!
* This picture will NOT make Sharon feel better about my racing!
…and Sharon’s comment: …Oh, yeah…I’ll ride with you now…NOT!
…and Andy’s comment…COOL DAD!…wait till I show the guys!
Good stuff…thanks you guys for all the comments!