3rd annual Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby

Over the weekend, the Hazard Factory — an industrial arts studio based in Seattle — hosted the 3rd annual Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby, in which power tool dragsters of Frankenstein-like construction are challenged to race head-to-head down a 60 foot plywood track.

There's a great Flickr gallery up, showing off some of the better creations, as well as the day's deathmatches. And then there's this culture mob video:

[via Hack-A-Day]

Image: Aether