Watch The Awesome and Pretty Complicated Starting Procedure For A 1958 John Deere 820 – Pony Motor!
If there is a basic rule of life it is that any engine that needs or happily uses another engine to start it is pretty awesome and the big (400+ ci) two cylinder John Deere diesel is nothing but awesome. This engine lived for MANY years and was produced in mass quantity providing the power […]
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An Amazing Tale: The Story Of The Rotodyne, The Vertical Take Off Airliner That Almost Made It (Video)
When we think of failed aeronautical innovations we normally put them in the same category known as, “stuff that could not actually fly.” Well this video and this story will stand as proof that we need to have all kinds of perspective when considering the fate of some flying machines. The Rotodyne was a brilliantly […]
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Remember Bigfoot and USA-1 Racing Down Lanes of Crushed Cars At Gateway Motorsports Park In 1983? Let This Video Remind You
This video is absolutely awesome on every single level and we have to thank Chuy Nava for thinking of us and tipping us off to its existence. You are going to jump back in time to 1983 and to the television show That’s Incredible. I remember this show a little bit being a kid of […]
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Le Mans: The Grand Prize – This 1973 Film About The John Greenwood Corvette Team At Le Mans Rules
Ok, this is one of the most fantastic vintage road racing films we have ever seen. The title of the film is Le Mans: The Grand Prize and it is an inside look at the John Greenwood racing effort at the race in 1973. Greenwood’s thundering Corvettes were well known and feared on American road […]
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History Video: The “Other” Racing At Pomona – Sports Car Racing Circa 1960 With Dave McDonald And Max Balchowsky
When the word Pomona is uttered around a car guy the first thought is drag racing, right? After all, the Pomona Fairplex has been home to the NHRA’s brand of motorsports entertainment for decades upon decades and what else would we think of. How about road racing and to an even lesser extent, dirt track […]
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Demo Derby In Car Video: Watch A Cadillac Take Four Minutes Of Pounding Before It Spits The Bit
Ahhhh, the demolition derby. Long a staple of county and state fair entertainment it is about as pure a concept as you can get. Bash your brains out and the last man or woman running wins. Being the intelligent animals that we are, human beings have elevated this program to the point that there are […]
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What’s Worse Than Turning Your Pulling Tractor Over? Turning It Over And Blowing Up All The Engines
We have showed you plenty of pulling mishaps over the years but this one has a special class that it will end up in. Why? Not because of the rather gentle roll but because of the fact that after the tractor rolls onto its side the throttle gets jammed open and every one of the […]
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Let’s Go WWII Wheelin’: This 1940s US Army Training Video Teaches Drivers How To Handle Tough Terrain
This is some awesome WWII history right here. You are about to watch a training film shown to WWII Motor Pool drivers to aid in their training with regard to how best to cover and traverse difficult terrain. We’re talking mud, rocks, ruts, etc. Today there’s millions of Americans who love recreational four wheeling and […]
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Sleeper Much? Watch This 2003 Buick Park Ave Make A Dyno Rip Worth 500hp!
This video is short and sweet, just a single dyno pull featuring a 2003 Buick Park Avenue. Why should you bother watching it? This 2003 Buick Park Avenue ain’t the one your granddad bought back in ’03. Nope, it is not the Ultra model with the supercharged 3800 V6, instead this is a hot rodded, […]
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Drag Ads and High Performance Print Screamers From the 1960s and 70s
Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s there weren’t all that many places to get your timely drag racing news from. Drag News, National Dragster, and several smaller regional papers like East Coast Drag Times, and others filled the void that places like BangShift and other websites now fill. The cool stuff isn’t just […]
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