Wednesday Time Suck: The Weekend Warriors A One Hour Drag Documentary From 1964 – Action!
Posted in HISTORIC December 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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It is Wednesday and that means that your week is about to crest the hill and start rolling toward the weekend. We want to help hasten that transition, that’s why we have posted the following four videos below, each 15 minutes long and each 25% of the 1964 drag racing film, “The Weekend Warriors”. Footage [...]
Awesome Drag Video: Watch Grumpy Jenkins Live Up To His Nickname In A 1975 TV Interview – This Rules All
Posted in FUNNY STUFF December 12, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Away from the race track Bill Jenkins was an affable man with lots of friends and stories. At the track, he was as serious as a heart attack, not all that friendly a dude, and an intense competitor. A couple weeks back we showed you epic match race footage from a long dead drag strip [...]
Historic Drag Video: The 1973 Manufacturer Funny Car Showdown From Byron Dragway!
Posted in HISTORIC November 29, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Thanks to a hot tip from pal o’ BangShift Dawn Mazi Hovsepian, we’re able to share this fantastic video from the 1973 Manufacturer Funny Car Showdown which was held at the awesome Byron Dragway in Byron, Illinois. This race really drew them out with the Chi-Town Hustler, Shirley Muldowney, The Blue Max, Don Schumacher’s Wonder [...]
Epic Pro Stock Video: Da Grump and Landy Match Racing Circa 1975 – Dry Hops, Rosin, THE WORKS!
Posted in HISTORIC November 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This is the coolest drag racing video we’ve seen in a long ass time. Filmed at the long dead Boundary Bay Raceway in British Columbia, Canada it features Dick Landy and Grumpy Jenkins match racing in 1975. It is nearly seven minutes of magic because you get to experience what match racing was all about [...]
Killer Vintage Video: 1964 Ford Total Performance Promotional Film – Stock Cars, Pikes Peak, and FE Love!
Posted in HISTORIC November 9, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Ford’s so-called Total Performance campaign of the 1960s was probably the most ambitious and widespread motorsports and competition effort of any automaker in the 1960s and possibly ever. From the Indy 500 to the 24 Hours of LeMans, Nascar, drag racing, Trans Am, and more, the company literally heaped untold sums of cash into racing [...]
Epic Video: 26 Minutes Of The Greatest Vintage Drag Racing Film On The Internet – Bar NONE!
Posted in HISTORIC November 9, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This two part professionally produced drag racing film from early 1971 is, in our opinion, the most fantastic vintage drag racing movie we’ve ever watched on the internet. The film was commissioned by Plymouth and it not only gives some great history on the sport, but also follows the stock, super stock, funny car, and [...]
Bitchin’ Video: The First Preview For The Upcoming Snake and Mongoose Movie!
Posted in HISTORIC November 2, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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One of the things I have been quietly looking forward to is the upcoming film, “Snake and Mongoose” which tells the story of Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen, their rise to fame with the famous Mattel deal, their trials and tribulations on and off the track, and their enduring friendship. This is really one of [...]
Vintage Drag Videos: Topeka’s Kaw Valley Dragway Circa The Early 1960s
Posted in HISTORIC October 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Today the Topeka, Kansas area has the sprawling Heartland Park racing facility to take care of its need for speed, but that hasn’t always been the case. Before that huge complex became a reality, decades before actually, the humble Kaw Valley Dragway provided the place to race for hot rodders outside of Topeka. We don’t [...]
Video: Carl Renezeder Wins 100th Short Course Off Road Race Behind The Wheel Of His Lucas RC10T
Posted in HISTORIC September 28, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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You’ll remember that we went to the Lucas Oil Off Road Races at Glen Helen a few months ago and absolutely loved it. What a great show they put on. Well, one of the dudes putting on the show is famed Short Course Off Road star Carl Renezeder. And with more wins under his belt [...]
Video: 1960s Drag Film From Atco – NHRA’s Bob Frey As A Kid – Gassers, Garlits, Nitro, Perfection!
Posted in HISTORIC September 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Stop whatever you are doing now and press play below for a 24 minute time travel trip back to the early 1960s at Atco Dragway in New Jersey. Atco remains one of the best known drag plants on the east coast and this video is a great window into how the golden years of the [...]
Road Trip Video: Rodfather Wrapup: Check Out All The Videos Right Here!
Posted in HISTORIC September 24, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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We just finished up the first half of the Rodfather Goodguys Road Tour and can’t begin to describe just how bitchin it was. Sure we worked our asses off shooting video and photos and getting all of that stuff up every night, but it was cool. About 80% of the guys on the trip are [...]
Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s
Posted in HISTORIC September 20, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Chances are that you’ve never heard of the Best and Gordon Purple Haze A/Fuel dragster from the early 1970s. Don’t worry, you are not alone because we hadn’t either, and frankly that’s the beauty of this video. These two guys were friends, drag racing fans, and racers before joining forces and going nitro racing on [...]
Video: Chad Interviews Speedy Bill Smith and a Host of Others at the Museum of American Speed
Posted in HISTORIC September 19, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Yesterday we took you on a photo tour of the coolest gearhead museum in America, the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed founded by the legendary, “Speedy Bill” Smith. Today, we’re going one better on you by bringing video of our own Chad interviewing the man himself along with a bunch of the other rodders [...]
Video: Rodfather Tour Visits Wyotech, Chad Does Interviews, And We Visit Pinkees Rod Shop.
Posted in HISTORIC September 16, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Day two of the Rodfather Goodguys Road Tour is in the bag, and we had even more fun today! With five more days of road trip ahead of us before reaching Indy, there is sure to plenty more fun, but today we visited Wyotech, got some great on road footage of all the hot rods, [...]
Video and Photos: The Rodfather Tour Invades Colorado, Chad Pours Beer, Drinks Beer, and More.
Posted in HISTORIC September 16, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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We’ve got a some cool photos from Day 2 of the Rodfather Goodguys Road Tour, along with a cool on the spot teaser video from Saturday that includes Chad pouring beer! We’ll have our full video up early tomorrow morning, so stay tuned, but until then check out the sneak peek here. And remember, you [...]
Video: Chad And The Route2Media Gang Cruise Through Utah With Roy Brizio And Friends.
Posted in HISTORIC September 15, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Day one of the Rodfather Goodguys Cruise was super bitchin. Some of the coolest hot rods around are cruising cross country from Bonneville to Indy and we are covering all the action. Wix Filters was the presenting sponsor of Friday’s action, and we stopped off at Kindig-It Designs for a great lunch thanks to Racedeck [...]
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