History Video: This WWII Film Called Gunnery In The B-29 Is An Amazing Look At The Computerized Tech The Planes Used In The 1940s!
Perhaps someday we’ll run out of things to be amazed at about WWII but so far, we’re not even close. Take this film for example. You are going watch an animated training video made by the Army Air Force for the guys who were going to be gunners in the B-29 bombers. The B-29 was […]
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Happy Y-Block Day! We’re Celebrating The Lincoln 317 On This Fine March Day!
Like yesterday’s look at the little 316ci Pontiac, the 317ci Lincoln Y-Block is not exactly history’s most celebrated engine. The mill as introduced in 1952 and produced trough 1954. It was the first generation Y-block to hit the Lincoln engine bay and it was also used to power Ford trucks in the middle 1950s as […]
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The Mother, Jugs, and Speed 2WD Pulling Van Was Kind Of Awesome – Flip Top Body and Wheelies
Many of you out there remember the 1976 cult classic film Mother, Jugs, and Speed. With names like Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Larry Hagman, and others, it was packed with some star power for sure. Based at an ambulance company, the comedy featured Cosby in the lead as “Mother” Tucker, the best ambulance driver at […]
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High Steel: This 1970s Documentary About Mohawks Building Manhattan Sky Scrapers Is Incredible
The year was 1916 and the event was the construction of the Hell Gate Bridge. It was this occasion that brought a significant number of Native Americans from the Mohawk Tribe to New York and gave rise to the legend of the Mohawk iron worker that helped to literally build New York from the ground […]
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Heavy, Haughty, and Downright Hilarious: Driving The 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLS63 AMG – The Cure For The Common EV
With all the noise, screaming, yelling, and histrionics that fill the airwaves these days about EVs and their impending blob-like growth to swallow the automotive marketplace, it’s good to get a reminder about how wrong all that language is. Yes, EVs have grown into a still tiny part of the overall marketplace. That said, all […]
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Listen To The Entire Big Sounds Of The Drags 2001 Album Here, Free! – Crank It Up!
Fun fact to know and share. The first piece of drag racing journalism I ever had published outside of the New England Dragway newspaper was a piece I wrote about pro mods for Nitronic Research. While that site is long gone, the spirit and ethos of the place still lives strong among lovers of the […]
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Happy 3/15! Today We Look At The Oft Forgotten 315ci Chrysler Poly V8 Engine
We’re pretty sure you were all waiting for 3/18 to come around and that we’d be talking Mopar small blocks at that point. Well, wake up! Rather than wait until the date you all knew was commingle figured that we’d throw a curveball at you and tell you about the short lived 315ci Chrysler Poly […]
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Historic Promo Video: Chevrolet’s Promo Movie Selling Ram-Jet Fuel Injection for 1957
What a world it must have been for a gearhead in the late 1950s. So much was happening with aviation technology, and car companies were innovating, inventing, and experimenting with stuff that would have been considered voodoo magic just years (or less) before. This promotional video selling the virtues of “Ram Jet” fuel injection on […]
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This Video Featuring The Rebuild Of An Ancient Cadillac 314ci V8 Is The Right Way To Celebrate 3/14
One of the great engines that no one aside from early Cadillac experts really remembers much about is the 314ci V8 the company offered in the ‘teens and twenties. It was the engine that set the standard 90-degree off-set that was to become the standard for virtually every V8 engine that followed it. Offering 70 […]
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The American Powertrain Thursday Shift: Ripping Lenco Levers With The Front End Up – Like A BOSS!
The only thing cooler than a Lenco transmission is a Lenco transmission being shifted with the front end three feet in the air, right? This video has all of that action and while we’re pretty short on details we can tell you that the car is about as mean a bare bones racer as you […]
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