Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, Car Features, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Competition Plus Historic Video: THE FIRST 15 YEARS OF NHRA PRO STOCK: A QUICK LOOK
As much as I love all door car drag racing, there is still one that just turns my crank like none other, and that is NHRA Pro Stock. And as opinionated as I am on modern Pro Stock, and what...
DAKAR 2022 Daily Video Highlights: Stage 8 Baby! The Saudi Arabian Desert Is Putting Up Quite The Fight.
Dakar 2022 is in full swing now, and everyone is on the downhill side of this treacherous journey. Of course that downhill side is still full of sand, and ruts, and jumps, and waypoints that confuse....
Video: The 1986 Buick Riviera T-Type Was A Harbinger Of Our Current Automotive Lives
Only 10% of the Buick Rivieras made in 1986 were T-Types. The company made more than 20,000 “regular” Rivieras and only about 2,000 of these one year wonders. It was a shrunken chassis...
Best Of 2021: World Rally Championship Season Highlights. The Best Jumps, Turns, Crashes, And More!
The World Rally Championship was something special in 2021 and thanks to the guys at Red Bull we’ve got some cool highlights. The high flying, sideways, and crazy action you expect to see at a...
Funny Car Chaos The Movie: This Incredible Film Takes Us Inside The Massive Funny Car Event In Dallas
If there was an indication that the sport of drag racing was set to come roaring back after a dreadful for the world 2020, it happened early in the year at the Texas Motorplex. The event was Funny...
Engineering Marvel, And Example Of Just How Awesome Physics Really Is: The Falkirk Wheel, A Marvel In Boat Moving
Locks are an amazingly simple and yet impressive method for moving boats up and down when a river’s path experiences elevation changes that are too severe for boats to travel, or where...
Unstable: The Deadly and Explosive History Of Headlights – Wild History From 100 Years Ago
The automotive headlight is not exactly the most exciting part of a car, right? Wrong. Back in the early 1900s not only were headlights new and exciting, they were explosive and deadly. This...
NHRA Wild Rides 2021: This Collection Of NHRA Fires, Crashes, Crazy Saves And More Is A Crazy Look Back
It was funny. Right around Christmas I was talking to a friend and it was mentioned that there wasn’t all that much carnage on the NHRA tour in 2021. For a minute I thought about it and I was...
Video: The FD RX-7 Was Basically The Perfect Sports Car And It Was Also A Big Failure – Why?
The 3rd generation or the FD RX-7 was basically the perfect sports car and it was also a big failure. So the question naturally comes. Why? The first and second generation cars were successful,...
Video: Watch Highlights From The 1977 NHRA Springnationals in Columbus, Ohio!
This video rules so, so hard. Why? This is not just a highlight reel from the 1977 NHRA Springnationals, it is a class by class look at the race, there’s footage of Pro Comp and a great...
Don’t Judge A Failure By Its Cover: This Is The Insane And True Story Of The Vulcan Shuttle – The Solid Fuel Rocket Powered VW
The Vulcan Shuttle is a machine which has been snickered it, derided, laughed at, and generally mocked in the annals of drag racing history by those that know of its existence. Why? Because the thing...
Interesting History: The Seven Generations Of The NASCAR Points System
Scoring points in racing is something that has never stayed the same for very long, no matter the series. NASCAR likely leads the league on the manner and way that they have evolved their points...
Best of The Best: This Video Looks At The Eight Greatest Jaguars Of All Time – Great List
Jaguar is a brand that has been a times in its history, a world-beater, nearly broke, seemingly lost with their product, and the manufacturer of some of the most beautiful cars in history. It is his...
