Boom Car Boom

March, 2009

BOOMto*ie hundred thirty miles from Cape Canaveral, just off Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near the border between Seffner and Mango, in a stretch of central Florida blistered with low-end strip malls and stamped with a waffle-iron grid of asphalt, stands Explosive Sound and Video, the principality of Tommy the King of Bass. The Sunday before Memorial Day 2008, Tommy, who owns the loudest music-playing driv­ing vehicle in the world, was staging a double competition in his parking lot: a d...