Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Historical Footage: That One Time When MotorWeek Tested UAZ Trucks That Were Supposed To Be Sold In The States!
The UAZ-469 should be familiar to many as the Russian answer to the original Jeep. In production in some form or another from 1971 through current day as the UAZ Hunter, the UAZ-469 is, at best, a...
Classic YouTube: Pan American’s First 747 Flight Occurred On This Day In 1970
It wasn’t the Concorde, but the Boeing 747 might as well have been when it was rolled out of the hangar in Everett, Washington in September 1968. Compared to the Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s...
Classic YouTube: The Myth Of The Camaro With The Giant Blower
The first time you saw it, your brain automatically dismissed it as Photoshop gone too far. It had to be…the iron lung sitting on top of the engine in this Camaro looks to be as big as the...
Historical Footage: The Car And Track Review Of The 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!
By 1974 the party was over. Unless you knew your way around an option sheet at Pontiac or were willing to look at an AMC Matador coupe, the fun had been killed, by insurance companies, the EPA, and...
Would You Want To Own A 1971 Dodge Challenger Pace Car Edition, Knowing Why It’s So Famous?
Eldon Palmer had no intention of driving his way into infamy during the 1971 Indianapolis 500 race. Palmer was one of four Indy-area Dodge dealers who provided Hemi Orange drop-top Challengers after...
Rally Legends: The Marreau Brothers – Private Renaults Against All Comers At Dakar!
With the 2017 Dakar Rally looming ahead in less than a month’s time, it felt appropriate to take a look at two Frenchmen whose performances at the beginning of the 1980s earned them a spot in...
The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!
Until I actually got to Bowling Green, I wasn’t aware that an actual 1983 Chevrolet Corvette actually existed. Seriously, I didn’t. I knew about the aborted test run of cars, and I knew...
Labor Day Historical Racing Footage: The 1981 Australian Endurance Championship Round 1 Group C Race From Adelaide!
Got your feet kicked up? Fully relaxed yet? Good deal…you’ve been busting your hump all year so far, you’ve earned a day off and we want to make sure that you aren’t just...
Classic YouTube: This 1969 Television Ad For The Ford Torino Cobra Is Old-School Perfection!
Ford, in the middle of a cut-throat war with Chrysler over who had the baddest machine on the planet, could not have been happy to see the sales success of the Plymouth Road Runner when it debuted in...
Classic YouTube: This Supercharged, 5.0L Swapped Saab 900 Rules! Where Did This Car Go?
We like the strange and weird around here if it is done right, but what is right? How do you know if it’s properly awesome or if it’s just left-field weird? It’s hard to define, but...
This Documentary Made At Bonneville In 1965 Is Fantastic History You Have Probably Never Seen!
2016 marks the 102nd year of land speed racing competition on the Bonneville Salt Flats and 1965 is one of those years that sticks out as being particularly awesome. It was the year that the...
Historical Footage: The Positive Side Of Messing With A German Car – The 1997 RENNtech SL500 As Tested By MotorWeek!
Lately, you’d swear that there is only one German auto manufacturer: Volkswagen. Since last year the phrase on everybody’s lips has been “Dieselgate”, the complete...
Best of BS 2016: See How A Student Crew Landed A B-58 Hustler With Damaged Landing Gear After Fourteen Hours In The Air!
If there is one thing that will put the truest icy spike of fear into your spine, it is when something breaks on the aircraft you are operating. I once had the cable that operates the rudder on a...
Classic YouTube: Check Out This Vintage Footage Of A Corvair Owner’s Club Gymkhana Meet At Riverside International!
If Ralph Nader was to be believed, an event like a club meeting for Corvair owners at Riverside International Raceway Park in southern California should have ended in a mass of tangled, twisted...