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 [...]
Road Trip! Photos and Video: The Rodfather Tour Has Officially Started!
Posted in HISTORIC September 14, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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We’ve spent the last two days cruising from Pleasanton, California to Wendover, Utah for the start of the Goodguys Rodfather Tour, but today was the official start. And where better to start a road trip full of killer hot rods than at the Bonneville Salt Flats? With over 80 hot rods ready to roll at [...]
Video: Hot Rodding Is About Friends, Driving, and Fun… More From The Rodfather Tour
Posted in HISTORIC September 13, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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The Rodfather Tour left Pleasanton California on Wednesday morning and ended up in Reno, Nevada for the night. We hooked up with a bunch of the gang, including Andy Brizio himself, in the bar where bench racing, storytelling, and laughing were rampant. We got some great interviews with these guys and then hit the motorhome [...]
Video: We’re On The Goodguys Rodfather Tour With Andy Brizio And Friends
Posted in HISTORIC September 13, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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Andy “The Rodfather” Brizio is one of the icons of all that is hot rodding. And his mantra has always been that trailering them sucks, but driving them is bitchin. This year he told Gary Meadors that he was going for ONE LAST ROADTRIP, and the Rodfather Tour was born. We’re following along from start [...]
Historic Drag Video: Amazing 8MM Footage of National Challenge ’72 – Every Pro Legend You Can Imagine!!
Posted in HISTORIC August 29, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Forty years ago this coming weekend, the greatest protest drag race ever staged was run at what was then called Tulsa International Raceway. Don Garlits and the PRA (Professional Racers Association) along with Jim Tice teamed up to run the biggest drag race in the country on exactly the same weekend as the 18th US [...]
Set the Record: The Story of The Blue Flame LSR Car – Absolutely Awesome Historic LSR Video!
Posted in HISTORIC August 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Before the British Thrust SSC took the World Land Speed Record in 1997, it was held by an Earth-bound rocket known as, “The Blue Flame”. The car was built by Reaction Dynamics, the company of Pete Farnsworth, Ray Dausman, and Dick Keller who hailed from Wisconsin and it was driven by Gary Gabelich, a man whose [...]
Friday Time Killer: The Devil at Your Heels – The Story Behind the Failed One Mile Car Jump – More Than an Hour of Awesome
Posted in HISTORIC August 17, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve all seen the short clip of the infamous failed one-mile car jump at the St Lawrece Seaway in Canada. The big bizarre Lincoln with winglets disintegrating in mid air, only traveling 500 feet before smashing into the water. What you have not seen is the amazing story behind that moment and how it was [...]
Bitchin’ Historical Drag Video: The Story of the Snake and the Mongoose As Told By the Snake and the Mongoose – Once Upon A Wheel 1971
Posted in HISTORIC July 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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There are great ways to kill a Friday at work and then there are GREAT WAYS TO KILL A FRIDAY AT WORK! This would be the latter. More than 20 minutes of video from 1971 profiling the epic and incredibly profitable rivalry between Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, as bankrolled by [...]
The Turbosupercharger: Master of the Skies – Awesome WWII Military Training Film – Boost FTW Against the Axis!
Posted in HISTORIC July 27, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Here’s another Friday time killing exercise for you. We found this video 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 [...]
Video Bonanza: Awesome 8mm Films of 1960s Australian Drag Racing – Bitchin’ Hot Rods and Drag Machines!
Posted in HISTORIC July 24, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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One of the things that I always love to learn about is the history of drag racing in places outside of the USA. The reason that it fascinates me is because while the sport itself was exported from here to foreign lands, the equipment that most guys ran and hot rodded, at least in the [...]
Amazing Historic Drag Video: The Mind-Boggling US Turbine 1 Dragster
Posted in HISTORIC July 24, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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The halls of drag racing history are filled with lots of little nooks and crannies. In those tiny spaces exist cars and people like the US Turbine 1 Dragster and George “The Stone Age Man” Hutcheson. This incredible creation was one bad pass away from permanent display at the Smithsonian, but instead lived to be [...]
Great Video: The Profile of A Totally Unrestored and Running 1970 USAC Open Wheel Car
Posted in HISTORIC July 11, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Holley has been cranking out some truly kick ass video content lately. We’ve been keeping up over the last couple of weeks and this one may be their best yet. In this piece, you’ll hear Bill Akin, the owner of this totally unrestored 1970 USAC open wheel dirt track car. According to Akin, this machine [...]
Vintage Drag Video: 8MM Footage From Lions and Other Strips Circa 1964 – KS Pittman, the 554 Coupe and More!
Posted in HISTORIC July 3, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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As we all get ready to celebrate the 4th of July tomorrow with burnouts, hot dogs, hamburgers, a few more burnouts, some drag racing, fireworks, and maybe a beer or two, it is a neat time to reflect on our hot rodding heritage. This video is a perfect way to do just that. We dug [...]
Watch an Awesome Video of Danny Thompson Narrating the Amazing Career and Life of His Dad Mickey Thompson
Posted in HISTORIC July 2, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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In terms of singular people, few have had more of an effect on the American high performance and racing scene than Mickey Thompson. He was a man of high goals, nearly unending energy, and a drive that few people in the universe could ever fully comprehend. He could be a times a brawler, a negotiator, [...]
Fantastic Vintage Drag Video: The Highlights of the 1966 NHRA World Finals in Tulsa – See Greats Like The Grump, Pete Robinson and More in Action!
Posted in HISTORIC June 29, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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There are cool old drag racing videos and then there are those that words fail to properly describe. This one is all time. Produced by Bob Peterson (THAT Bob Peterson) with race announcing by Steve Evans and a closing narration by Keith Jackson, it is an awesome look at the 1966 NHRA Wold Finals held [...]
Watch A Totally Bitchin’ Recap of Maple Grove’s 50th Anniversary Race
Posted in HISTORIC June 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Our big gallery of photos from Maple Grove’s 50th Anniversary race got a ton of attention because Joe Grippo did a great job shooting them and because the race had a 100% awesome line up of mechanical talent. From Frank Hawley driving the Chi-Town Hustler to the rest of the nostalgia nitro floppers, alky funnies, [...]
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