Author Archive: Eric Rood
Hilarious Video: Mannequin Riding Shotgun In Race Car Scares Unassuming Driver
Pro racing drivers do considerably more than just show up on race weekends to flog their race cars for a couple days and then head home. In between race meetings, drivers must find time for testing,...
Watch a gloriously loud, smoky classic jetliner make its final departure – Behold The CV-880
The first generation jetliners get much fond reverence for being such a quantum leap from even the most high-tech turboprop-liners and with good reason. The ability to haul 100 people across country...
VIDEO: Vintage racing perfection is two Unsers caning classic Camaros around the Indy road course
Look, I don’t know if we really need to say much more than the title suggests. At a Sportscar Vintage Racing Association meeting at Indianapolis Motor Speedway as while back, Johnny Unser and Al...
HooptieCon: 24 Hours of Lemons Launches Festival for Crap Cars
While most people think of the 24 Hours of Lemons in terms of the low-buck road-racing series, Lemons is trying some new stuff lately. That has included the recently launched Lemons Rally...
Dutch Race Driver Gives Interview While Hooning BMW 2002 Around 1960s Racetrack
Today, the Internet is full-up with racers, drifters, and drag racers scaring members of the non-motoring press. It’s kind of played out, one supposes, but this classic video is an original and...
This Rally Driver Rowing a Five-Speed Column Shifter is Mesmerizing
One of the greatest things about racing in Europe is that if you can name a car, someone has probably caned it around a racetrack or a rally stage. For this enterprising driver, that means taking a...
Five Straight DNFs: This Dutch Driver Had an Incredible Run of Bad Luck in 2016
Supercars Challenge is a Dutch racing series with a number of classes for cars to compete in and for SuperSport-class competitor Eric van den Munckhof, the season may as well have never started....
Regular Car Reviews Tells the Bizarre Story of ‘The Dale,’ a Piece of 1970s Automotive Vaporware
Regular Car Reviews has become a bastion of video automotive journalism with the usual cast of Mr. Regular and The Roman giving some facts and opinions on cars from the past that people remember (or...
The 25 Hours of Thunderhill is an Insanely Fast Traffic Jam
The 25 Hours of Thunderhill remains one of the last real old-school endurance races. The annual December race in California, held by the National Auto Sport Association (NASA), blends an incredible...
Ever Heard a V16? BRM’s 1.5-Liter, 16-Cylinder Engine Sounds Like No Other
Sixteen-cylinders engines for the most part fell out of fashion after World War II. Cadillac had famously built a V16 for its 1930s cars and some racing outfits like Alfa Romeo had even tinkered with...
Check Out the Route for the 2017 Dakar Rally
The year’s first big race—after the Hangover 150, at least—is always the Dakar Rally. The Dakar is no longer the original Paris-to-Dakar format, but it instead covers thousands of kilometers...
Would You Rather, ‘Class of ’57’ Edition: Chevy Stepside or F-350 Utility?
This edition of Would You Rather gets its inspiration from the Statler Brothers. No, they weren’t a drag racing team or a tuning shop; the Statler Brothers were a country-ish/gospel-ish singing...
Watch: ANDRA Recaps the 2015-2016 Australian Drag Racing Season
We’ve shared with you some of the wilder moments from the most-recent Australian National Drag Racing Association (ANDRA), but the series has deftly composed a single season-review video with many...
Obvious Facts About the World: Sky is Blue, Grass is Green, Finns Race Karts On Ice
Finland: That place where racing fans just assume everyone knows how to drive sideways at all times. That may or may not be true in reality, but videos like this one reinforce the notion that...