The opening strains of Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel” are enough to make any animal-lover cringe in fear, knowing what is coming next, thanks to the SPCA’s cable- and satellite-television advertising blitz over the last couple of years. Images of abused, homeless, and hopeless animals fill the screen, and you are asked to donate, or adopt, one of these poor animals. The problem with that is that the animal-lovers the commercials affect the most, likely already have a houseful of animals.

So you can imagine our skin crawling the instant we clicked on this video – only to find that the crying, helpless ‘animals’ in pain were some of the world’s most beloved muscle cars! A Charger, Trans-Am, Mustang, all sorts of rotting, rusting automotive art is depicted to tear the musclecar lover’s heart out piece by little piece, with direction at the end to a website where you can ostensibly “do more” to help. Although the web address given in the video doesn’t really lead to anything productive, by checking out the website builder’s “Y84 Media” on Google we found that the link redirects to Hammer’s Trans Am Town Forum. We were interested in trying to find more information but couldn’t answer the secret question required for registration that only a Trans-Am owner might know.

Regardless, as the owner of the site states, why should we stand idly by, watch the rich folk pay way to much for a car at auction, and then see that trickle-down effect mess with the cars we’re trying to buy to restore? There has to be a better way…it seems that the hot-rodding industry is going the way of the haves and have-nots. Oh, and it’s much easier to tolerate the video if you press “mute”.