Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
This 1970 SS 454 Chevelle Has Been Sitting In This Yard, Complete, For 30 Plus Years!
Patrick Glenn Nichols is known for finding some of the coolest and rarest muscle cars on earth, sitting in the most random places. Not all of them are “barn” finds, but only because not...
Hardware: This 1954 Video Highlighting How Screws Were Made Is Awesome – Quality Stuff
There are few things that are as universal as the knowledge among gearheads that quality hardware is perhaps the most important thing in any project. Companies like ARP provide the peace of mind that...
Retro Pro Mod Video: Watch The Pro Modified Action From The 2004 US Nationals – Loads Of Fun Action!
Last weekend at Indy the E3 Spark Plugs pro mod category provided some of the most incredible action of the entire event. There were upsets, there were notable non-qualifiers, and there were loads of...
Guts Video: This Film That Shows A Bridge Being Built In Burma During WWII Is Awesome
What does this have to do with cars? Not a whole lot outside of the random truck that is shown as part of the work but this is as BangShifty a video as I have ever found on the internet. Why? It is...
Classic YouTube: The USS Shenandoah After It’s 1924 Mooring Tower Incident
680 feet long, nearly 79 feet wide at it’s broadest and standing nearly 100 feet tall, the USS Shenandoah would be an impressive sight by today’s standards, but in the early 1920s it had...
Classic YouTube: The 1986 IMSA Races At Road America – Champion Spark Plug Challenge And Kelly American Challenge!
The more I dig into IMSA racing from the 1980s, the more I like. The vehicles are exactly what I look for: road vehicles that are identifiable with little to no effort. Ok, that might be stretching...
Classic YouTube: American Cars Of 1974 In The UK…Not Well Received, No Doubt!
I used to be quick on the draw about UK car writers and the great big bulls-eye they had on every last American automobile they ever came into contact with. The cars were too big, too...
Watch The 1993 NHRA US Nationals Here – 25 Years Ago Force Had Never Won It, Upsets Galore
It was the 39th NHRA US Nationals. It was a weird weekend in Indy. It was a weekend where John Force was trying to win his first Indy, it was a year that the race was not broadcast on TNN or ESPN but...
30 Year Time Machine: Watch The TNN Broadcast Of The 1988 NHRA US Nationals
It’s only fitting that on the first day of the 1988 NHRA US Nationals we take a look back to the event that was run on the same track 30 years ago. The 1988 race was interesting because of the...
This Might Be The Coolest Private Car Collection In Europe. Porsche 911s for days!
I love Porsches. I have never owned one, but I will someday. Like most of my car passions, those Porsches that do interest me are the older 911 models and their variants. The occasional 928S4 or 944...
Slogging Through The Slop Video: This 1966 Army Film Shows The Difference Tires Make In The Muck
There are some things in this mechanical world that we take for granted and just kind of know. One of them is that skinny tires on a heavy truck in the mud is not exactly the best way to make...
Classic YouTube: Using A Dodge Intrepid As A Rally Car!
You can blame this one on my recent fixation of converting a Dodge Intrepid into a rear-drive, V8-powered hide-in-plain-sight kind of machine. I’ve shown you before just what that can look...
Classic YouTube: The Walkthrough Of The C4 Corvette, From Sketch To Street
One of the fun things that come with living in the Bowling Green area is the link to the Chevrolet Corvette. GM can try to hide their mules all they want but sooner or later, it’s a little city...
