Retro Review: This Look Back At The 1984 Buick Century Estate Wagon Is Grandma Approved
The mini-van was a transformative vehicle in the 1980s and Chrysler was cleaning up, leaving all the other manufacturers to scramble for their own version. GM was among the scramblers and in 1984 they were fighting on the wrong side of the battle. Trying to take on the mini-van with mid-sized wagons was just not […]
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European Clap Back: This Film From The 1971 Questor Grand Prix At Ontario Is Amazing
Back in the late 1950s American Indy Car drivers went to Italy to take on the best Formula One drivers in the best Formula One cars at Monza. Twice they went and twice they brought the bragging rights home. The “Race of Two Worlds” seemed to answer the question as to which style of car […]
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Chained Lightning: Watch This Naked Altered Make A Chassis Dyno Pull With A Roaring 434ci Small Block Ford Engine
We always find it cool when a bare chassis style race car is on the chassis dyno. There’s just something about being able to watch the slicks grow, watch the whole machine strain against the straps, and ultimately listen to the engine really work at full throat. Sure, being at the drag strip is the […]
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Nailed It: The 1993 Dodge Intrepid Was A Car The Company Desperately Needed To Work And It Did
I’m not saying I was a total weirdo at age 13 but one of the car posters I had on my wall was of a Dodge Intrepid. Why? These things were a radical departure from the norm of what was on the highway in 1993 and Dodge was selling them HARD just before they got […]
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Small Tire Monster Truck Video: Back In 1991 The Bigfoot Crew Bolted 48-Inch Tires On As An Experiment – Interesting
If you follow the sport of drag racing at all you know that for the last decade or so, the biggest trend has been toward “small tire” drag racing. Typically this means we’re talking about radial tire equipped cars. Back in the day it was 10.5 tires that started the trend and then it has […]
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Amazing Video: This Fan Shot NASCAR Footage From Bristol 1990 Shows Michael Waltrip’s Legendary Wreck
This is one of the most wild, incredible, and flat out shocking wrecks in NASCAR history. The best part is that Michael Waltrip walked away from it and completed a 500 lap race at Bristol the next day. What you are about to see is cool. This fan shot NASCAR footage from Bristol 1990 shows […]
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Don Schumacher, Transformational Force In Professional Drag Racing As Boss, Owner, Manufacturer Dies At 79
Don Schumacher, a one man force of nature in the sport of NHRA drag racing for more than 50 years passed away on December 20th due to illness related to a protracted cancer battle, he was 79 years old. It is nearly impossible to state with any accuracy how important a factor Schumacher was in […]
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This Profile of GATR Racer Shawna Robinson Shows How Wild Big Rig Speedway Racing Was In The 1980s
While this video is centered around the lone female driver in the Great American Truck Racing Series (Shawna Robinson) is is a spectacular look at the series as it was in 1985. The truck were still pretty heavy, they were still running as 10 wheelers, and while they were morphing more and more into specialized […]
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Video: Watch And Listen To This Little Toyota V8 Make 510hp At More Than 8,100 RPM
The Toyota 1UZ-FE engine is interesting because when it debuted in the late 1990s people immediately saw the potential for it to be a strong horsepower maker. It has six bolt mains, an over-square bore/stroke design, and free flowing heads that can support high RPM operation. This production engine was directly derived from the TRD […]
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Smashing, Baby! This British Review Of The Then New 1974 Lotus Elite Is Glowing To Say The Least
The 1970s were not a great time in the world of British automotive manufacturing. In fact, their domestic car industry kind of came to pieces during that period and never fully bounced back. Sure some of the big names like Bentley, Rolls-Royce, and Jaguar made it but other names slid under the waves. We say […]
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