Fun Historic Video: The 1982 NHRA US Nationals Sportsman Finals Were Full Of Cool Cars and Drivers
Why run a video showing the sportsman final rounds from the 1982 NHRA US Nationals on a random Tuesday in January? Why not? It’s the internet. Plus, who does not like to see cool drag cars getting their groove on while Dave McClelland makes the calls? We know that we love that junk and that’s […]
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The Hot Rod Menace: A Huge Street Racing Bust From 1954!
Street racing has been in the headlines like never before over the last several months with so many drag strips closed or limited in operation by COVID-19. One of the common refrains from people about street racing is that it has been going on forever and no one will ever be able to stop it. […]
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Cool Video: This Look Back At The Astounding Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette Is Great
It seems like an impossibility, right? A Corvette built in 1988 was the world’s most heroic sports car in terms of top speed for decades? And the thing was a freaking Corvette with a small block Chevy in it? And the car went 254mph! And it was made by a pluggy little company in Connecticut! […]
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Watching This Big Block Chevy Powered Tractor Puller Drag The Sled On Asphalt With Slicks Is Awesome
As gearheads we have a lot of those, “I wonder what you happen if…” scenarios that run through our heads. Lots of us have wondered aloud what would happen with a big pulling tractor on the drag strip with slicks (nothing good) or maybe what would happen if a puller got put on drag slicks […]
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Video: Watch AC/DC’s Brian Johnson Make Mincemeat Of Other Competitors In A Bad Ass Pilbeam Road Racer!
Lots of car guys love the hard rocking tunes of AC/DC, in fact both Chad and I are among that group. As if we needed another reason to dig the jams, it turns out that Brian Johnson is a radically hard core car guy that doesn’t just own a bunch of stuff to look at. […]
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Dead Strip Walking: Watch John Force Run At US 30 Drag Strip In 1984 – Gone Forever Months Later
John Force was not JOHN FORCE in 1984 but his star was certainly on the rise and his living was being made in the seat of the Coca-Cola funny car you’ll see in the video below. Force was racing as often as he could and anywhere that would let him during this time of his […]
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Historic Video: 1950s Stock Car Racing In Pomona Is Awesome To Watch
Pomona, California has been a hot bed of racing for nearly 70 years, and it’s more varied than you think. Since 1953 there have been drag racing events at the place and while that is the type of automotive competition most people think of when 1950s Southern California is mentioned, it should not be. This […]
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Engine Video: A Look At The 1992 Chevy LT5 Small Block Assembly Line And Machining Process
There was nothing as exotic as the 1992 Chevy LT5 small block coming from a domestic manufacturer during that time period. The Lotus designed heads, the Mercury Marine connection for building them, the 400+ horsepower output, all of it was wild. The first small block the the camshafts outside of the block freaked out many people […]
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Men, Ideas, and Tractors – This 1961 John Deere Promotional Film Is AWESOME
Ahhh, you say. Here’s Lohnes with another dumb tractor video! No, give this one a chance, it’s cool I promise! What we have here is the 1961 John Deere film called Men, Ideas, and Tractors which follows the developmental process of some new tractors. Dedicated John Deere fans will recognize the 2010, 2010U, 3010, and 4010 […]
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Retro Review: This MotorWeek Review Of The Then New 1991 GMC Syclone Is Awesome
In today’s world when we hear of a company launching model with a turbocharged V6 engine, everyone shrugs. Its the way of the world these days. Turbochargers are everywhere and even lame little cars that are not marked as “performance” drivers are capable of slapping around some of the legendary hunks of Detroit iron we […]
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