Donut Media parked Gary Bettenhausen’s Indy Car in Los Angeles for more than an hour to see how long it would take to get ticketed.
It’s not every day that you’re strolling down a city street and run into a legendary Indy Car from the 70’s parked at a meter but for some lucky Los Angelenos, this was a reality. According to Donut Media on their Facebook live video they streamed earlier today (Apr. 4,2017) this hairbrained idea to roll out a one-of-a-kind piece of American racing history out on city streets turned out better than they expected. The goal was to see how long it would take for an appropriate parking authority to roll around to ticket and possibly impound this 1977 Indy Car and while they achieved their goal, they got more than they expected. Check out the video below!
Since this video was published six hours ago it’s already received more than 200 thousand views and close to a thousand shares. If it’s page traffic they wanted, they most certainly got it.
You’d think that L.A. being the selfie capital of the world combined with the most notorious police in the nation that no one would bat an eye at the open-wheel racecar and it would be ticketed within seconds. The exact opposite happened instead. We didn’t watch the entire video ourselves but we certainly scrolled through the whole 70 plus minutes.
We counted close to two dozen separate times that either one person or a whole group of people stopped to take a picture or just linger at the Indy Car in total amazement. And we’re not talking “take a picture and leave as soon as possible” we’re talking “stop and smell the roses.” And when parking authorities did roll around at 70 minutes in, it was rather anticlimactic. Had the parking authorities not come sooner we’re sure we would’ve counted herds of people stopping to stare.
Gary Bettenhausen, the racing driver who piloted this awesome machine in Indy cars for ten races in 1977, as well as Evel Knievel and J.C. Agajanian (Evel’s promoter) must’ve been smiling looking down from up above as people enjoyed their racecar 40 years after it raced. We certainly were.
We’ll certainly keep an eye on the next live stream Donut Media throws our way.
