Man this is some good stuff. It’s a piece of a ’60s drag documentary called “7-Second Love Affair” that’s an awesome flick to score via DVD. If you are a late-’60s dragophile like us, it’s must-have material. This clip finds us at the legendary Lions Drag Strip with Top Fuel racer Rick Stewart suiting up [...]

Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, Maryland first held drag races in 1963. Since then the track has become one of the most active drag plants in the mid-Atlantic region and plays host of a lot of neat events, including the YellowBullet.com Nationals. It is currently operated by nitrous Pro Mod maven Jim Halsey. We [...]

Wow, is this awesome stuff! I happened to stumble upon this 15-minute home video made at the 1972 NHRA Winternationals by a pair of Australian brothers who traveled over to take in the race. Their footage, while sans sound, is almost hypnotic to watch. Within the first couple of minutes you’ll see Wild Willie Borsch [...]

The description of this video says “URBAN OUTLAW is a portrait of Magnus Walker, the rebel Porsche customizer who turned a hobby into an obsession, and an obsession into a successful business. From a workshop in downtown Los Angeles, Magnus obsessively harvests fragments from donor 911s, grafting them onto vintage frames to create one-off automobiles [...]

We’ve always wondered how a multi-car team decides who gets which engine for a particular race. Do they duke it out SUMO style? Do they foot race across the parking lot? On tricycles? Drinking contest? What? Well, it turns out none of those are the answer. We were shocked honestly. Watch the video to find [...]

Kent Fuller is a living legend in the world of chassis fabrication. He’s built hundreds of chassis, including those that have taken the legendary drivers of the sport on to championships. He’s also saved several of their lives with innovations and developments that have changed drag racing forever. He’s a hot rodder, and has been [...]

If you’ve never seen 1944′s The Fighting Seabees, today would be a good time to familiarize yourself with it. Starring John Wayne along with a raft of construction equipment including bulldozers, cranes, and other iron, the movie is a completely fictional account of how the US Navy “Seabees” came into existence. John Wayne plays a [...]

Here’s another educational video exercise for you. We found this film and watched all 22+ minutes of it in one shot. The film was made by what was then the Army Air Force in the early 1940s to educate pilots and mechanics about the new “Turbosupercharger” systems being installed on airplanes to allow for faster, [...]

Did anyone else know that the Army developed a 10 passenger Jeep during WWII? We certainly did not know anything about this awesome machine before seeing this newsreel video on YouTube. Not many details are given with respect to the engine and any other mechanical upgrades over the stock Jeep which is shown for comparison [...]

They were 3,000hp wooden-hulled harbingers of doom for the enemies of the Allies during WWII. True hot rods of the sea, the PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats were capable of attacking and sinking ships far larger and more powerful than themselves, mainly because they were so damned fast. Packing a triplet of specially built, blown, intercooled [...]

This old film features an M35A2 Army truck, known more commonly as a “deuce and a half.” It was rated for 5,000 pounds of cargo capacity when off road and a 10,000-pound capacity when on the road. Talk to any military truck driver and they will tell you that these trucks survived being loaded with [...]

This is video that’s sure to put a big smile on your face! We saw this posted on Facebook and thought that the BS readership would totally be into seeing a group of guys in the 1960s push starting their altered on a residential street where they live. They apparently had just installed a brand [...]

This is a video that will make you smile and it’ll also serve as a reminder that there was an era when someone could walk into a car dealership and essentially order whatever they could dream up from a car company. These were not the days of selecting “option groups” or “packages” these were the [...]

We learned of this video from our friend Dawn Mazi-Hovsepain and it rules all! Shot at Miami Hollywood Speedway in 1975 it features some of the best Pro Stock drag racing footage of the era, unfortunately it doesn’t feature sound, but the visuals are flippin’ awesome! You’ll see Dyno Don, Bob Glidden, Gapp and Roush, [...]

In the realm of vintage drag racing videos, this couple minute clip from Connecticut Dragway’s heyday ranks up there with the best of them. Featuring a ton of great race cars, some cool pit footage, and little gems like a gasser being towed back to the pits by a Super Bird, it is riveting to [...]

If you like history, specifically history related to one of the greatest engines ever designed and built, the Rolls Royce Merlin this 20-minute film is not to be missed. While the boys at Rolls Royce over in England designed this engine that powered everything from PT boats to P-51 Mustangs, it was the manufacturing might [...]