Watch Aussie Top Fuel Legend Jim Read Suffer A Massive Crash In 1990
Every country, quite literally has their drag racing legends and they do not come much larger in Australia than Jim Read. This is a guy who had career in top fuel that spanned many, any decades and included a bunch of wins and championships. He was sponsored by the same company for a long, long […]
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Neat Drag Racing Video: Go Drag Racing In The Philippines With The Angeles Hot Rod Association
When it comes to drag racing, we can argue that it is the most scrappy motorsport on Earth. It exists everywhere around the globe. In countries that are rich and poor they have drag racing. It does not matter what language people speak, what type of stuff that they have to compete with, or how […]
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ABS On Tractors? This Video Demonstration Proves How Necessary It Actually Is!
There are certain things that the average person does not think about during the average day. We’d venture to say that one of them is the potential effectiveness of ABS on tractors. Here in the USA farmers do not tend to log as many road miles on their machines as the guys over in Europe that […]
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The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ripping Along In A Road Course Tuned Late Model Stock Car
So this is easily the best ride you are going to take from your desk today. Why? You are about to strap into a late model stock car that has been converted and altered to kick ass on the road course. The car normally races with the NASA series in their Super Late Model category […]
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Burbling Beast: See And Hear This Massive Oshkosh Plow Truck Rumble With A 1,090ci Hall-Scott Engine
Today we’re coming in hot with a truly massive rig in every way shape or form. This video shows a vintage Oshkosh truck that is fitted with a V-plow large enough to cut a swath through a concrete bunker, it weighs as much as some small islands, and the engine is one of the larges […]
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The Bodybuilders: This Early 1970s Film About Fisher Body And Their Plants Is Amazing
Boy, oh boy is this awesome! You are about to see this early 1970s film about Fisher Body and their plants called The Bodybuilders. Fisher Body was its own enterprise before being full enveloped by GM in 1984. This video shows the process of conceiving, engineering, and ultimately constructing car bodies at Fisher plants back […]
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Two In A Row Make It Go: This 2-53 Powered John Deere 435 Sounds Epic Indoors With A Straight Pipe
Few people associate the Detroit Diesel engine with John Deere tractors and that makes some sense. The company has long been known for their engines as much as they have been known for the tractors built around them. That being said, even the mighty John Deere finds itself in a pinch every now and again […]
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Tough Guy Video: Could YOU Work A Massive Drop Hammer All-Day, Everyday?
There are loads of people who have physically, mentally, or otherwise demanding jobs…and then there’s this. What you are going to see is a massive drop hammer being used to forge glowing steel in a plant and while the video is coming up on 20 years old, we’re thinking that if we walked into the […]
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More Gearhead History – Killer Ads From the Pages of Sports Car Graphic Magazine Circa 1970/71
Since we’ve had such a great response to our old drag racing ads and vintage magazine ads recently, we dove face first back into the massive archive (which my wife calls the, “Lohnes Institute for Drag Racing and Hot Rodding History”) and surfaced with a couple copies of Sports Car Graphic magazine. This book was […]
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New Year-Piece Theater: This 1977 Film From The SCCA Run-Offs Is Hosted By Sam Posey And Rules!
It was the days before Datsun became Nissan. The days when Sam Posey was still an active professional racing driver at events around the world, and the days when SCCA sports car races were packed with the types of cars that reflected their times. This film, paid for by Datsun is an amazing recounting of […]
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