Killer Historic Drag Video: Highlights From Arizona’s Beeline Dragway Circa 1969
Posted in HISTORIC February 18, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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With the recent announcement that Arizona’s Speedworld dragway would be closing down we couldn’t help but think about another dead Arizona strip that was once a hotbed of national level drag racing action and that’s the former Beeline Dragway which was located in Mesa. The remains of the timing tower still stand silently in the [...]
Bitchin’ Video: A Mash Up Of Good Tunes, Tommy Ivo, Vintage Hot Rod, Drag Race, and Dry Lakes Footage From Levi’s Jeans
Posted in HISTORIC February 14, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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We were kind of shocked to see that Levi’s jeans had made this totally awesome video highlighting old hot rodding, drag racing, and dry lakes footage that uses voice overs from the likes of Tommy Ivo and other. Then the more we thought about it, things made sense. If there is any one piece of [...]
Video: The Places They Raced – Episode One – Fantastic Racing History From California
Posted in HISTORIC February 13, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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A week or two ago we told you about an upcoming documentary series based on the great Where They Raced books by Harold Osmer. We’re happy to report that the first episode of the series has been released and we’ve got it embedded down below. As you’d expect, the first episode starts right at the [...]
Historic promo video: The Olds Jetfire Turbo V8
Posted in HISTORIC February 8, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve been on a kick for old promotional videos lately and this one, featuring the “new in ’62″ Olds Jetfire turbocharged V8, is totally cool. Touting the performance and giving the viewers a basic explanation of turbocharging, this video not only sells the car but also makes an attempt to explain the technology behind the [...]
Vintage TV Ad Perfection: Roger Penske and Mark Donohue Pitching Sunoco Fuels Circa 1968
Posted in HISTORIC February 6, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Roger Penske could be the coolest guy alive. He’s rich beyond all comprehension, has been in racing for nearly 50 years now, and still stands as a very successful racing team owner in both open wheel and stock car series. The guy freaking bought Detroit Diesel from General Motors in 1988 and took it from [...]
Video: A Fantastic Look At US 131 Dragway Through The Years From The Early 1960s To Today – Amazing Footage and Photos!
Posted in HISTORIC January 31, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Thanks to pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian we were tipped off to one of the most comprehensive and cool vintage drag racing videos we’ve ever seen on the interwebs. This film starts with converted 8mm tapes taken in the early 1960s and travels over steps in time though photos and video footage. We see relatively stock cars [...]
Cool Old Drag Video: Ron Colson and Gary Burgin in the Funny Car Finals at US131 Dragway Circa 1980
Posted in HISTORIC January 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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There’s nothing like Funny Cars at night. Header flames licking the body, nitro-burning Hemis cack-cack-cackling away, and (in 1980 anyway) dry hops on the starting line. This video was shot at the Popular Hot Rodding Championships, held at Martin, Michigan’s US131 Dragway. The strip still stands today and has played host to all the big [...]
Epic BS Video: A Half Hour Uncut Interview With NHRA Funny Car Driver Ron Capps – NAPA AA/FC
Posted in FUNNY STUFF January 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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One of the great highlights of our 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up coverage was a half hour video interview with Ron Capps, the driver of the NAPA AA/FC and one of the great funny car pilots of all time. This interview covers an immense amount of ground from Ron’s family, his career, his history in [...]
Vintage Drag Video: Oswego Dragway Circa 1968 – AWB Novas, Straight Axle ‘Vettes, Altereds, Muscle Cars, and Even Turbonique Action!
Posted in HISTORIC January 22, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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This is one of the coolest old 8MM drag racing videos we have dredged up in a while! The film was taken at the long dead Oswego Dragway in 1968 and it features everything from muscle cars to altereds, dragsters, and even what looks to be a turbonique rocket drag axle equipped door slammer. This [...]
Video: Courtney Force Runs “World’s Fastest”, 322.73 MPH Funny Car Run, At PRO Winter Warmup
Posted in HISTORIC January 21, 2013 by Chad Reynolds
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When Ron Capps ran 3.964 at 320.89 miles per hour at Englishtown during the 2012 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season, it knocked the world on it’s ear. Well that same scenario went down in West Palm Beach this past Friday night when Courtney Force became the Fastest NHRA Fuel Funny Car in 1000 foot [...]
Awesome Historic Video: A 1957 Chevy Truck Promotional Video Featuring NAPCO 4WD
Posted in HISTORIC January 17, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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It’s hard to imagine, but there was actually a time when people didn’t buy trucks for daily transportation and four-wheel-drives were a relative rarity. If you wanted a 4×4, you typically bought a Jeep. Companies like Marmom-Herrington focused on larger vehicles for industrial use, but in the early 1950s a company called Northwestern Auto Parts [...]
Video: A DeLorean That’s Way Cool! The DMC-44 Utility Truck That Never Made It Into Production
Posted in HISTORIC January 16, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Over the course of the last week, I have expressed my less than favorable opinion of DeLorean cars, shown crash test videos of one folding up like a kid’s toy and generally been negative towards the company that failed so terribly that the majority of its tooling resides at various locations at the bottom of [...]
Bitchin’ Video: Gassers at the US Nationals in the Late 1960s
Posted in HISTORIC January 11, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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The infamous gasser wars of the mid to late 1960s were fueled by provocative advertising in magazines and drag news papers of the day. Perhaps more importantly, they were heightened by the awesome racing and rivalries on the track. If the ads were nothing but fluff, the gasser craze would have died on the vine. [...]
Cool Old Video: A Turbine Powered 1962 Dodge Drives Across the Country
Posted in HISTORIC January 1, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
Epic Freaking Video: Home Movies From The 1969 Daytona 500 — Incredible Footage!
Posted in HISTORIC December 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Like yesterday’s amazing Top Fuel Experience video, this incredible, never-before-seen footage from the 1969 Daytona 500 ranks on the top of the charts as far as vintage stock car movies go. Why? Ironically for none of the reasons that the Top Fuel Experience blew our collective minds. This movie is fantastic because it is home video [...]
Video Bonanza: A History of Camaro TV Commercials 1967-1998 — We’ve Got A PILE Of ‘Em!
Posted in HISTORIC December 19, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We’re not sure why we killed an hour looking for old TV commercials, but maybe you can spend half that looking at this compilation of Camaro ads over the years. There are 19 videos here because once we get started on something we simply cannot help ourselves and we just couldn’t stop looking for more [...]
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