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Mark Williams New XK & XJ Series Jaguar Upgrade Means More Strength and Safety!

If you are running a IRS in your hot rod and that IRS is a Jag style unit that employs the basic Jaguar design, there are some parts of that program that aren’t all that great. Mark Williams...

Isolation Restoration Video Update: Take A Quick Tour Of The Tecumseh On The Operating Table

It’s a funny thing. There’s so many downsides to this period of “life pause” we’re living in and may be coming out of now but there are a couple of benefits. It has been...

Birth Year Car Battle Slapfight: Burying McTag’s Race Car Choice With The Mighty 1980 Blue Max, Total Victory Declared

Welp, he done went and stepped in it. With an effort to make some sort of backhanded slap across my face, McTag ventured into the world of race cars as a second theater of war in this Birth Year Car...

Working For A Living: What Do Top Fuel and Nitro Funny Car Crews When The NHRA’s On Hold? At Kalitta Motorsports, They Work!

Every team in motorsports is handling their respective downtime differently. The vast majority have drastically reduced staff, furloughed people, or in some cases totally parked their stuff. Racing...

Classic YouTube: This 1964 FAA Controlled Crash Test Of A Douglas DC-7 – When You Must Be Certain Every Safety Feature Will Work…

Deer Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has a rather grim history in the aviation world: for quite some time the FAA used the Deer Valley Airport to perform aircraft crash testing. The goal: to...

What’s Social Distancing? 1967 Checker Aerobus Eight-Door Throws That Idea In The Trash!

For the fans of a long roof, the ultimate achievement are airporters. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it’s probably because you’re younger and missed the glory days of air travel....

Project Isolation Restoration Product Test Video: Does Evapo-Rust Really Deliver? See For Yourself

If it is too good to be true it probably is, right? That’s the normal scene when it comes to anything in life. Whether we are talking about a car that looks too good to be priced so cheap, a...

“Watch The Limbs”: Busted Knuckle Films’ “Maximum Destruction 2”

Smashing, bashing, breaking, carnage, swearing, bystanders gaining a healthy fear of a rapidly escalating situation…no, that’s not this video so much, that’s me breaking up the...

Limited Options: There Are Few Places To Find A V8, Rear-Wheel Drive Sedan These Days – We Check Out Three Options

(By Tom Lohnes) – In these times the crossover SUV is the perfect vehicle for many. Although quite practical, crossovers don’t quite spark that sense of power mostly because the majority of...

Steep Descent: Dropping A Cessna Onto A Trampoline…Will It Bounce?

When I was working with helicopters, I was once asked by a friend of a friend something to the effect of, “If there was one thing to share about a ‘copter with somebody that knows nothing...

How Do You Pick? 1320Video’s Favorite Rides From Powercruise 80

I cannot begin to explain my jealousy over Kyle’s recent trip to Australia. Powercruise was the first show I’d ever heard about, the first one I equated to burned tires, skids for...

Crushing History: This Recap Of The 1988 Monster Truck Racing Season Shows A Historic Year

Is a sport really a sport before there is a champion? We don’t really think so and that’s why the 1988 TNT Renegade Monster Truck racing season was such a big deal. It was the first year...

Historical Footage: Henri Toivonen Running The RAC Rally In A Talbot Sunbeam

Henri Toivonen’s fame may lie as the man whose death signaled the death of Group B Rally when his Lancia Delta plunged over the side of a cliff at Corsica in 1986, but it wasn’t due to...