Watch This Super Stock D/Modified Corvette Attack Orlando Speed World In ’87 – Huge Revs, Bang Shifting!
We have to thank BangShifter Bob Chambers for the link to the video you’ll see below. The footage comes from a Saturday at Orlando Speed World drag strip circa 1987 and it features the awesome super stock D/Modified Corvette run by a guy named Randy Harrison. Being a D/modified car you get to hear big […]
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Racing In The Rain: Watch This 1958 Sadler-Chevrolet Mk3 Attack The Road Course In The Wetness
If you are a race car driver in England, it seems like you should be pretty versed in wet competition, right? The country is known for being slightly more than damp at times and racing in the rain is part of that program. In this awesome Goodwood video we have a 1958 Sadler-Chevrolet Mk3 being expertly […]
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Fantastic Video: This Old Ad For A Fiat 127 Features One Of The More Incredible Driving Sequences Ever
The Fiat 127 was one of those cars that people instantly ate up. Fiat sold ’em like they were free beer from the early 1970s right into the 1980s with little more than cosmetic upgrades. The car you see in the video below was built before 1977 so it was somewhere between that initial year […]
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Track Freaks: Check Out This 1990 Video With A Mini-Van Tank and The Crazy Super Trax Peterbilt
Molalla, Oregon is the spot where this video was captured about 30 years ago and it’s a pretty neat watch if you are a fan of monster trucks from the 1980s and early 1990s. The video shows a couple of the trucks that the prolific Mike Welch put together back in the day. We can […]
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Cool Video: Watch A 1927 Atlas-Imperial Diesel Tug Boat Engine Start Up – So Many Valves, Knobs, and Handles!
There’s something about watching massive old engines start up that we cannot get enough of. While this engine is certainly not the largest thing we have ever showed you and some may even argue that it should not be called “massive” we’re sticking to our guns. This is a fun watch because the guy operating […]
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Listening To Dave McClelland Call A 1980s Stadium Off Road Race Will Make Your Day
Mickey Thompson’s Off Road Warriors was a film produced the 1980s to act as a promotional tool for short course off road racing, a sport that the man had himself invented and was promoting hard. The video is a feature length production that has lots of great elements. In the interest of time we have […]
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Weird No More: The Saab 900 Turbo Wasn’t An Oddball In The 1980s, It Was A Window Into The Future
Before General Motors got their hooks into Saab and drove it straight into an iceberg, the Swedish auto manufacturer was an unlikely and awesome success story in the industry. An airplane manufacturer that decided to build cars, the whole enterprise was operated differently than any other company. The engineers ran the show and that meant […]
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A Car Is Born: This 1960s Film Showing Life In The River Rouge Plant Is A Jaw Dropper
It has been said by people far smarter than I ever will be, that Ford’s River Rouge plant is the greatest factory ever built. At its height, ore and raw materials would enter one end cars would leave the other. It was the most vertically integrated operation in the history of the car. Ford owned […]
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Sideways and Flying! Monza Plus Porsche 911 Race Car Plus Talent Equals Epic Video
An Italian race track, a German car, a British driver. As it turns out, that’s a magical combination for making a killer video and we bet that you will agree with us after seeing the footage below. The car is a 2.0L Porsche 911 racer, the track is Monza the iconic facility in Italy, and […]
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Watch A Legendary Vincent Black Shadow Engine Dissection
There are engines that seem to transcend time and space. Engines that are larger than the sum of their parts and hold an aura over gearheads for seemingly unending numbers of decades. One of those engines is the big V-twin that was used to power the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle which was the most bad […]
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