Historic Drag Video: Awesome Footage From the 1963 and 1966 March Meets
Posted in HISTORIC March 4, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Well we’re done for the day. We’re going to sign off and start the thrash to get ourselves situated to bring you awesome live streaming coverage of the 52nd March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, starting when racing begins tomorrow. Just to keep your heart rate up until then, we’re dropping [...]
Videos: Big Willie Robinson and the Brotherhood of Street Racers
Posted in HISTORIC March 17, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We were thinking about Big Willie Robinson’s 1969 Daytona being posted on eBay and thought to go looking for some background on the man and on his Brotherhood of Street Racers organization. We needed more information on the Terminal Island drag strip, as well. We found all three sories in these videos, some of which [...]
Historic Video: Mickey Thompson Becomes the First American over 400 MPH
Posted in HISTORIC March 17, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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A few weeks ago our Southern California division posted a bunch of photos of the Mickey Thompson display at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. What we didn’t know at the time is that there is a very cool old film that depicts the day at the Bonneville Salt Flats when Thompson ran his Challenger [...]
Neat Old Video: The Six Wheeled Tyrell P34 in Action Circa 1976
Posted in HISTORIC March 24, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Back in 1976 one of the weirdest and coolest professional race cars of all time, the Tyrell P34 Formula One car, was unveiled. Featuring six wheels instead of four, it looked like something that would never work, but it did, if only in spurts. Issues with the small front tires and other small problems plagued [...]
Awesome Muscle Car Video: Factory Promotional Video for the 1970 AMC Rebel Machine
Posted in HISTORIC April 2, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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After showing your the “mis-powered” 1968 Rebel in our Craigslist find, we had to get you some Rebel redemption. Here it is in the form of a cool old video that AMC sent to their dealerships to help sales people move the Rebel Machine into the hands of horsepower crazed young men in 1970 America. [...]
Groovy Video: 1970 Firestone Tires Commercial
Posted in HISTORIC April 2, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Decades before the Ford Explorer debacle that would cost the brand dearly (and more than they deserved) Firestone was cranking out tires at a blinding rate for all different types of vehicles. Their famous “wide oval” sneakers were the hot ticket for muscle cars and sporty machines like the Corvette. This ad even seems to [...]
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
Posted in HISTORIC April 7, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag racing programs and promotion, Stockers got quicker, faster, and crazier. The great mechanical minds that populated NHRA Pro Stock when [...]
Classic Ad Video: The 1967 Pontiac GTO
Posted in HISTORIC April 8, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We took a little heat yesterday for admitting that we thought Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” television commercial for the Charger was kind of neat. We’ve found a classic ad that follows the same formula, using a solemn narrator speaking with an otherwise silent background. This commercial for the ’67 Pontiac GTO makes the Chrysler ad [...]
Cool Old Video: The Marathon Oil Hurricane Hell Drivers
Posted in HISTORIC April 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Stunt and precision driving shows ain’t what they used to be. Scratch that, they are exactly what they used to be, except now they don’t do the truly death defying stuff like jumping cars into other cars on purpose. The precision driving is cool but the last Chitwood show we saw, the guys were driving [...]
More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
Posted in HISTORIC April 12, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We were a little harsh on the Joie Chitwood stunt show earlier, relaying our last memory of the program as relating only to the fact that they were driving Toyota Camrys. It wasn’t always like that, as the program had a long running relationship with Chevrolet. Below is a promotional film for the 1956 Chevys, [...]
Cool Historic Video: A US Navy Promotional Film About PT Boats, True 3000HP Hot Rods From Hell
Posted in HISTORIC April 14, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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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 [...]
Cool Old Promo Video: Curtis Turner and Ford’s Total Performance Campaign
Posted in HISTORIC April 16, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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Few men in NASCAR history drove harder or lived faster than Curtis Turner. He was one of the sport’s first bonafide legends and because of that he was used as a pitch man. In this video he’s stiffly reading a script promoting the benefits of racing Ford cars and how that experience makes road cars [...]
Cool Old Video: Ten Minutes of Kooky AMC Commercials Circa 1973
Posted in HISTORIC April 19, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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We love old car ads around here so when we saw a compilation video made up of the entire 1973 AMC television ad catalog, we had to share it with all of you out there in readerland. While on a long ride this weekend we had a fairly long discussion about these old ads compared [...]
Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989
Posted in HISTORIC April 21, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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After seeing the photos of Ellis Vial putting his killer Pro Mod up on two wheels, we went hunting for some cool video showing the early days of the class. We did even better than that, we found some stuff that predates Pro Modified as a pro class of racing. The Pro Mod class was [...]
Vintage Muscle Car Road Test Video: A 1971 Olds 442 W30 ‘Vert Gets Thrashed
Posted in HISTORIC April 22, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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With a total production of about 30 cars, it’s rare to lay eyes on a real 1971 Olds 442 W30 convertible, so seeing one of these cars get thrashed on a road course, spun out, and thrown through the cones is a special treat. Thanks to a tipster we can share with you some cool [...]
Cool Old Jeep Video: The Autobiography of the Jeep circa 1943
Posted in HISTORIC April 27, 2010 by Brian Lohnes
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While we showed you the soft side of the Jeep with the whimsical 1960 Surrey version, the vehicle made its bones and its reputation fighting WWII. Churned out by the hundreds of thousands and representing nearly 18% of all wheeled vehicles produced during WWII, the Jeep was one of the critical elements of the Allied [...]
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