Killer Drag Video: An Interview With Nitro-Shoe Mendy Fry Circa 1987!By Brian Lohnes Posted 09/2/2010
Mendy Fry is one of the most sought after nostalgia nitro pilots in the world today. She's in the Nostalgia Top Fuel 250mph club, has run down into the 5.80s in a nostalgia nitro flopper, and has honed her skills on a wide array of cars. Her story is... Read More >
Killer Video: Plymouth Roadrunner Ads By Brian Lohnes Posted 08/31/2010
Chrysler may not have been the sales leader of the muscle car era, but they were certainly the fun leader. We found a great video showing a compilation of Roadrunner ads from 1968-what looks to be 1971. There's some good Coyote fail footage here... Read More >
Historic Drag Video: Drag Racing - Sport of the PeopleBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/26/2010
By now, you should have read our great interview with Jon Lundberg, the truly great drag racing announcer from the golden era of the sport. Lundberg was called the "Voice of Drag Racing" during his time because he announced everywhere and he also lent his voice to movies, records, ads, and whatever else was necessary. This video is one... Read More >
Great Vintage Video: Chevy Vega Development Footage From 1970!By Brian Lohnes Posted 08/26/2010
We've featured vintage film from the old "Car and Track" show before, but this could be the coolest ever for a variety of reasons. As usual, Bud Lindemann leads us off on the adventure. This video features the technical marvel that was the new Chevy Vega. Unfortunately... Read More >
Historic Promo Video: The Chrysler Airflow at Bonneville and Driving Coast to CoastBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/24/2010
The Chrysler Airflow will forever be known as a car ahead of it's time. One of the first cars to have been designed with aerodynamics in mind, the shape and contours of the vehicle were just too much for most of the buying public... Read More >
Bonneville Speedweek 2010 - Wednesday video, action, and pictures.By Chad Reynolds Posted 08/18/2010
The crowds might be getting smaller, as the 2010 SCTA Bonneville Speedweek moves into the final few days, but the action is only getting hotter. Records have been set and reset, gauntlets have been thrown, engines have been swapped, and that was just Wednesday before lunch. The rest of Speedweek is... Read More >
Amazing Historic Drag Video: The Mind-Boggling US Turbine 1 DragsterBy Brian Lohnes Posted 08/11/2010
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... Read More >
Bitchin' Big Rig Race Video: The Great American Truck Race, Atlanta, 1980By Brian Lohnes Posted 08/10/2010
About a year ago we ran a story about the Great American Truck Racing series that existed in the 1980s. This was the series that pitted hot rod big rigs against each other on speedways and super speedways across the country. The story caught fire and flew around the gearhead internet universe in record time. Well, we've... Read More >
Historic Pro Stock Video: Southern Fried Pro Stockers From 1974By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/29/2010
Pro Stocks circa the mid 1970s were really cool. Tube chassis were the order of the day but factory sheet metal hung on them. The Lenco was now the "in" thing and the motors were making ever more power as racers tweaked their way to quicker and quicker times. No place was hotter than the Southern US for this type of 'slammer action. The... Read More >
Video Bonanza: Evel Knievel, the Good, the Bad, and the UglyBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/28/2010
Evel Knievel is an interesting character study. On the one hand there is the guy with the panache, guts, and skill to fly a too heavy motorcycle over too far a distance in front of tens of thousands of people. On the other hand there is a man who did many questionable things in his personal life and really never lived up to the message that he preached to his followers. Personal faults... Read More >
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Incredible Historic Drag Video: Ten Minutes of the 1959 March Meet!By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/27/2010
This is some amazing stuff. The video we found is 10 minutes of 8mm footage shot at the 1959 March Meet. This event is one of the seminal events in drag racing history. Don Garlits was paid by the Smokers Club to show up at the race and backup the big numbers he was throwing "back east". The race... Read More >
Historic Drag Video: Muscle Car Drag Race Action from Montana's Glendive Drag Strip Circa the Late 60sBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/26/2010
This is some neato footage from Glendive Drag Strip that was taken sometime in the late 1960s. The coolest part about the video is that it's all muscle car on muscle car action with some hard core looking and running machinery. It is amazing to us... Read More >
Killer Promo Video: The 1960 Chevy CorvairBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/21/2010
This awesome promotional video for the 1960 Chevy Corvair made us smile. The poor cars used in the making of the video were thrashed to within an inch of their lives! Oddly the car spends far more time off road and... Read More >
Killer Historic Video: Ford Crash Testing From the Late 1950'sBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/20/2010
Crash testing is a normal part of modern automotive engineering. Sensors, wires, high speed cameras and all manner of complicated testing widgets are used to make sure new cars are as safe as possible. Back in the late 1950's crash testing was just starting to resemble what... Read More >
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Historic Drag Video: A Trifecta of Great Footage From Green Valley RacewayBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/19/2010
Green Valley Raceway was located in Smithfield, Texas, and operated from 1960-1986. The track was owned and operated by Bill Hielscher, the drag racer that most knew as "Mr. Bardahl" as he was backed by the Bardahl company and featured in its ads. We... Read More >
Awesome Historic Indy Video: All the Big Names Qualifying in 1964By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/16/2010
When the news broke the other day about a "new" Dallara chassis to be used by Indy car racers in the coming years, lots of people excitedly reported on it. We didn't because frankly, it didn't strike us as all that big a deal. Same motor in the same place, some aerodynamic tweaks, and promises of cheaper costs of construction and better safety. Consider this video of qualifying from the 1964 Indy 500 as our jovial protest against the spec world of Indy car racing these days. Every single car in this video is different and... Read More >
Incredible GM Promo Video: Testing the 1963 Corvettes in October of 1962 with Zora Arkus DuntovBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/14/2010
This video, entitled "Biography of a Sports Car" was produced by GM in October of 1962 just before the groundbreaking 1963 Corvettes were released for sale. It features noted sports car racers Dr. Dick Thompson and Dave MacDonald thrashing the cars at high speed around GM's Milford Proving Grounds. It also... Read More >
Killer Historic Drag Video: Frank Mazi's Insane Blown Hemi Opel GT in Action Circa 1984By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/14/2010
Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian is one of the best drag racing photogs we know. Her husband ain't a band shooter either, but she's cooler than him. Anywho, Dawn's dad, Frank Mazi was a competition eliminator racer of some note in the 1970's and 1980's. He ran a series of wild Opel GT race cars that ran like stink and handled like... Read More >
Historic Drag Video: Hot Action on the Strip in Montana Circa 1959By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/13/2010
The late 1950's were a very exciting time in the worlds of hot rodding and drag racing. The veritable small block Chevy was really gaining traction in the gearhead culture, companies like Scotty Fenn's Chassis Research Inc. were building full on race chassis for public sale and speed parts companies were springing up all over the place. These videos... Read More >
Killer Historic Video: Dan Gurney's 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda Trans Am Announcement By Brian Lohnes Posted 07/12/2010
The 1970 season is seen by most to be the seminal year for the Trans-Am series. We found this kick ass video of American racing legend Dan Gurney's press conference announcing that he'd be driving a 1970 Plymouth 'Cuda for duration of that season's Trans-Am schedule. This is... Read More >
