This 1970s Pantera Sales Film Is Beyond Awesome – Bob Bondurant, No Acting, And One Sexy Car
We are all kind of in love with the De Tomaso Pantera around here. Listen, they were cool cars! Sure they suffered the same fate as the rest of the stuff in the 1970s with big dumb bumpers and decreasing performance but hot damn were they good looking. This video was made somewhere in the […]
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Groovy Video: This Professionally Made Film From Santa Pod In 1970 Rules – Cool Cars, Interesting People
When drag racing became a thing in the first half of the 1960s in England, it took off pretty quickly. Always modest by the standards of American drag racing, English enthusiasts didn’t just import all their stuff from the USA, they built unique machines based on the parts and pieces that had at hand in […]
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Watch Jim Bullet Baily Successfully Perform The Stunt That Would Later Kill Him
There was a whole stuntman craze that exploded after Evel Knievel rocketed to worldwide fame in the 1970s. Of course there were the copycat motorcycle jumpers that popped up all over the place but there were also guys who came up with wacky new acts that would get them on television and booked at events […]
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The Man Who Turned A Simplicity Tractor Into A Miniature Combine Lawn Mower Is The Greatest Living American
My friend Jack sent me this video link in an email yesterday with the simple phrase, “prepare to ruin your shorts…” The sad fact is that the man has sent me some terrifying links before so I was peering through barely spread fingers when I clicked it and was happily surprised to see a video […]
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Weird Project: Turning A Refrigerator Compressor Into A Running Gas Engine!
Yet another example of what makes human beings great. This guy saw the compressor from a fridge and decided that he could make a running, gasoline burning engine out of it. And he did! This is one of the weirder projects that we have ever seen but also one of the most interesting and ingenious. […]
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Cool Old Video: A Turbine Powered 1962 Dodge Drives Across the Country
Chrysler’s efforts with turbine-powered cars in the mid-’60s are pretty well known. What many people don’t know or don’t remember is that Chrysler was messing with turbines in their cars all the way back in the early ’50s. By the beginning of the ’60s, the company was trying to show how far they had come […]
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Badges? We NEED Those Stinkin’ Badges! History Of The Most Familiar Logos In The Automotive World
The blue oval, the bow tie, the pentastar, the tri-shield. Just by naming these generic shapes, virtually every person reading this can identify what brands they are associated with. There are few industries or products in the world that have that sort of strong recognition, but where did those logos come from? We got curious […]
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Unexpected Hero: Watch This Vortech YSi Blown Porsche 928 Make 1,1113hp To The Wheels – Porsche Powered!
Want to talk about daring to be different? How about making four digit horsepower at the wheels with a Porsche 928 V8 engine! Carl Fausett owns this car and he is the guy who not only has developed the engine package you see here but he’s also the guy that races the thing incessantly. The […]
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Video Bonanza: 1980s Monster Truck Arena Show Screamer Ads – These Are All GOLD!
This is awesome! I randomly ran across a single 1980s monster truck TV commercial on YouTube and then I went straight down the rabbit hole looking for more, and boy did I find them. This collect of 1980s monster truck ads is awesome. Why? Well the voices you hear will be somewhat familiar. There’s one […]
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Sunbeam Tiger Video: Ride Along As The Tiny Small Block Ford Sports Car Rips Monte Carlo
While the Shelby Cobra is certainly the signature piece in the legacy of Carroll Shelby, the Sunbeam Tiger is another English/American mashup he had his hands in and profited from. The Tiger was born back in the early 1960s when Sunbeam realized that their little Alpine was a cool car but it needed a bunch […]
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