Video Perfection: Take A Look At A Screaming Formula 5000 Car From 1970 – Open Wheel, Small Block Perfection
(Video credit: Clay Simon YouTube Channel) – We have gushed over Formula 5000, we have showed you old Formula 5000 cars on eBay, and we have even showed you old Formula 5000 video with James Garner in it but today? Today is the coupe de grace. This is modern video of a 1970 period perfect Formula […]
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Video: This Blown Big Block Chevy Powered Trip Hammer Is Awesome Overkill
Trip hammers are cool machines designed to literally smash and bash whatever is placed in them flat. In the case of this video it appears to be a thick piece of solid steel bar stock that gets “the treatment” in the 500lb Little Giant hammer. The rub? Said hammer is powered by a blown big […]
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Video: Ever Wondered How A Full Floating Rear Axle Worked? This 1936 Chevy Film Explains It Wonderfully!
It is a term that you have heard a million times. The “full floating” rear axle. Maybe you know what it is and maybe you don’t. No biggie if you do not know what it means, you get to learn right here! This 1936 film from Chevrolet talks about the introduction of the full floating […]
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Vintage Rally Video: No Computers, No AWD, And All Sideways All The Time In The 1970s
While there’s a lot of fodder for bagging on the 1970s like the clothes, the weak sauce factory performance cars, the disco music, etc we cannot fault the racing. From the drags to NASCAR to F1 and in this video, rally, it was a great time. In the clip below there’s a couple minutes of […]
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Watch And Listen To This Miniature Version Of The Famed Novi V8 Indy Engine Run In A Tiny Car
There are few engines in the history of American racing that have the legendary status, the incredible aura, and the overall lack of race wins to back it all up than the famed Novi Indy car engine. Essentially a pair of Offenhauser four bangers hooked together, the beastly thing made more than 450hp in its […]
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Watch Ron Capps Stop His Car Like Fred Flintstone At The NHRA Seattle Race In 2009 – Low Speed Drama
Having known Ron Capps for several years now, we can tell you that he is a great funny car driver, a good dude, and someone who is quick to act to handle any situation, no matter the speed. That’s exactly what happened in this clip from the 2009 NHRA Seattle national event where after making […]
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Watch Pro Mod Action From 1990 The First Season It Stood As A Pro IHRA Class – Sox, Cannon, McAmis, More
I was 10 years old in 1990 and by that time a big chunk of my brain had already been consumed by cars and specifically drag racing. I was reading any magazine I could get my hands on with drag cars in it and I was trying to watch whatever I could on TV to […]
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Watch Ollie Bryant Drive A 1958 Lotus-Climax Like A Boss At Goodwood – Raw Talent!
Why do we love historic racing? Why do loads of people love history racing? The answer is that it exposes talent. We strip away modern technology, we strip away modern amenities, we strip away basically everything and we’re left with racers in awesome machines. It is pure, it is old, and it is awesome. There […]
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Watch The Most Bizarre Pro Mod Race Ever – Both Cars Break and Coast To Identical 31-Second Elapsed Times
Pro Modified is known as one of the most exciting classes in drag racing, because of the parity between cars and power adders, as well as producing fast, eventful, and unpredictable races. This video brings us back to the IHRA days where it finds two heavyweights in the Pro Mod class, Ed Hoover in the […]
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Watch This 447ci Jon Kaase Racing Engines Built Boss Absolutely RPM To The Moon
The NHRA’s competition eliminator class is one of the most BangShifty zones of motorsports in the world. One of the last true unabashed places for complete mechanical creativity in the sport you see things in comp that you see nowhere else. Tiny four cylinder engines pushing lightweight cars to single digit elapsed time naturally aspirated, […]
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