Sales Job: This 1975 Promotional Video For the Lincoln Town Car and Town Coupe Is Awesome
Your salesmen will show you such options as “four wheel power brakes,” and the “extended range fuel tank.” There’s a lot of great stuff in this video but the “Extended range fuel tank” in a car that weighs like 5,000lbs and has a big block in it is just so far over the top we […]
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Cool Tech-Demo Video: Why ARP Ultra-Torque Is THE Fastener Assembly To Use On Your Project
When a technically obsessed company spends two years of time, resources, and capital to make a product that increases the efficacy of their already industry leading parts, it’s not time wasted. In fact, if you are using ARP Fasteners and you are using anything but the company’s Ultra-Lube fastener assembly lubricant, you might be detracting […]
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Watch This 1969 L71 427 Crank Out 500hp With The Factory Air Cleaner And Exhaust Manifolds On
It is one of those questions that gearheads love to pose to each other. How good were those old engines, anyway? How much did the factory over or under rate them? Did they actually make the horsepower that Detroit said they did? Over the years, in most cases the answer is no, they did not […]
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COLOR Video From Alton Dragway Circa 1961 is Amazing – The Cars, The Starting System, More
Now this is a jaw dropper. Of course Alton Dragway was the scene of what’ll forever be among drag racing’s most controversial runs, the claimed 204mph shot by Chris Karamesines in 1960. It would be years later that Garlits would run 200 and get credit for the feat at Island Dragway. Connie Kalitta was the […]
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The Flyin’ Bolens Is A Turbine Powered Lawn Tractor Puller From Hell
People may want to laugh at it, but the world of garden tractor pulling is deadly serious. There are engine builders who make their living on single and twin cylinder engines for these tractors that make stupid power and loads more torque than the factory engineers ever intended them to make. Like their larger brethren, garden […]
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Historic Video: Silent Screamer – The Inside Story Of The 1967 STP Turbine Powered Indy Car!
Last year around this time I was at the American Sped Festival in Detroit, surrounded by historic race cars of all different shapes and sizes. Two of them were 1968 turbine cars as fielded by STP. The cars driven by Joe Leonard and the other by Graham Hill were amazing and they were not the […]
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Move Over BMW and Jag Inline Six Engines, Here’s a 370hp Naturally Aspirated OHC Pontiac Six!
Pontiac’s OHC six cylinder was a pet project of John DeLorean in the 1960s when he wanted to introduce a more European driving experience to customers who preferred sprightly handling to brutal straight line acceleration. The engines were respectably rated at more than 200hp back when they were new but they were not exactly sold […]
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Larger Than Life: This Video Profile Of Al Teague As Well As The Joint Venture Truck Is Neat Bonneville History
Yeah, we know. Al Teague had nothing to do with the Joint Venture big rig that has been roaring up and down the Bonneville Salt Flats for years. This video was made as a segment for the old Discovery Channel show Extreme Machines. What we’re guessing happened here is (as you’ll see) the whole thing […]
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This 1963 Chevrolet Film Touting Their Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks Is Great
With Chevrolet’s relatively recent return into the medium truck segment beginning to gain some steam, we thought it was a fun exercise to go historical video hunting and find some stuff from Chevy’s past in the same market segment. This 1963 film fits the bill perfectly. What you are going to see is the dealer […]
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33 Year Trip: Check Out Hallsville Drag Strip Action From 1989 – Sportsman Fun!
This is a fun way to kick off a week, right? We’re taking you 30-years into the past, back to the 1989 drag racing season at Hallsville Drag Strip in Texas. The track no longer exists but we’re hoping that many of these cars and trucks do. No, you are not going to see any […]
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