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It’s Ford vs Plymouth vs Chevrolet In This 1966 Station Wagon Showdown – Narration By Lorne Green
Remember the good old days when car companies actually made cars? We live in an era now when seemingly every week we see news that car companies are discontinuing the production of, well, cars. Back...
Watch Don Garlits’ Amazing Speech From The 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Awards Show
There were many great moments at the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello awards show, but there was nothing that came close to the speech that Don Garlits made while accepting his NHRA Lifetime Achievement award....
Watch A WWII Runway Get Rolled Out Like A Carpet – 14 Hours From Wheat Field To Air Strip
Color us surprised! We knew that there were loads of methods of creating air strips quickly during WWII but we had no idea that one of them was basically rolling one out like a carpet! The video...
Big Is Back! Video Of Revised Swamp Rat 38 Electric Dragster Heating The Hides Here!
Now this is awesome. While we get that loads of people are not into the whole electric drag racing thing (we’re not exactly jumping up and down about it, either) we are huge fans of people...
Full Circle: This Beautiful Story Featuring A 1955 Austin Healey 100S Speaks To Cars And Life
For many of us, cars are among the most influential forces in our lives. Not in the weird way but in the sense that we have grown up with memories centered around them. The first ones we ever saw....
Donut Media Takes On Richard Petty: Everything You Should Know About The King of NASCAR
Richard Petty. Even if you can’t stomach stock-car racing, you have to tip your hat to the man who made it look damn easy for years on end. 200 races won. Seven NASCAR championships. Seven...
World Finals Video: Steve Torrence Sweeps The Countdown, Wins Pomona In Dramatic Fashion
24 rounds in a row. A feat never accomplished in the Countdown era of NHRA drag racing, a sweep. Steve Torrence and the CAPCO Contractors top fuel dragster ran the table starting after the 2018...
This 1966 El Camino Promotional Video Is Crazed 60s Chevy Propaganda At Its Finest
There’s nothing like some wacky 1960s manufacturer propaganda to get our blood going on a Friday. In this video we see a big block 1966 El Camino compared to a 289 powered Ranchero, then...
Classic YouTube: The First Recorded Automobile Racing Incident? Louis Chevrolet’s 1919 Fire At Coney Island
The man whose name is one of the most famous in the world thanks to it’s associations with a brand of automobiles was more racer and engineer than he ever was a “car company”...
Watch The 1980 NHRA World Finals From Ontario Motor Speedway Right Here – Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock
The 1980 NHRA season was one for the books and the World Finals that year, held at the cavernous Ontario Motor Speedway was a real hum dinger of a drag race. Coming into the event the top fuel race...
Vintage NHRA Video: The 1993 Winston Finals At A Revamped Pomona Were A Blast
Auto Club Raceway Pomona which was known in 1993 as Pomona Raceway stands as one of the great pillars of drag racing in the USA. Yes, the track’s usage is severely limited because of how the...
Amazing WWII Video: The Story Of Glamour Gal A 105mm Howitzer at Iwo Jima and The Men Who Manned Her
No, this is not a video about cars. You’ll actually not see a single one in it. This is a video about the connection of man and machine, though. In this case the machine is Galmour Girl a 105mm...
Watch Mike Janis Win The 2018 NHRA E3 Spark Plugs Pro Modified National Championship
This was one of the most electrifying years in the history of the pro mod class while those monsters have been running with the NHRA. 18 years have passed since a simple exhibition and the evolution...
Classic YouTube: Where Godzilla’s Legend Began, Round 6 Of The 1990 Australian Touring Car Championship!
When Mark Skaife took the green flag at Mallala for the sixth round of the Australian Touring Car Championship, the Nissan Skyline was just an import running with Ford and Holden. The HR31 Skyline, a...