blink-182 on Instagram: "On this day 24 years ago, Box Car Racer was officially announced to the world! ☠️🔥 Here is the press release published on blink-182’s website: As if touring the world, racking up hit single after hit single, getting married and enduring back surgery isn’t enough to fill his time, blink-182’s Tom DeLonge has spent his few free moments writing and recording material for a side-project named Boxcar Racer, which will be released by MCA Records on May, 14, 2002. Says DeLonge