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Classic YouTube: The 1965 MotorTrend 500 At Riverside – Gurney And Foyt Battling It Out!
It’s hard to not look back at old NASCAR footage and not muse about how the days of racing real “stock” cars are long gone, isn’t it? After the late 1980s, all the cars seem...
Hitting Peak: This 1994 Video Showing Off The New S-10 and GMC Sonoma Represents The Little Truck At Its Best
Small trucks have always been an interesting things to us. Obviously we are back in the middle of a small truck war as we told you about the new Ranger Tremor that Ford just released but the small...
Listen To The Man: John Force Talks About Missing Indy, Not Racing In 2020, and More
It was and is one of the biggest stories in the world of NHRA drag racing. When John Force announced that he was parking his racing operation for the balance of 2020 the whole world was wondering...
Classic YouTube: Maynard Troyer’s Monster Rollover At The 1971 Daytona 500
Maynard Troyer’s NASCAR career was short. He only had two active years, 1971 and 1973. Two years before calling it quits seems strange, but not so strange as the gap year in between, right?...
Classic YouTube: The Pilot Of This BO-105 Helicopter Has No Fear Whatsoever!
I’m sure I’m gonna hear from a lot of people I used to work with for saying this, but it’s a reality: not every helicopter pilot is a great pilot. Safe, sure. Competent, absolutely....
How To Sell A 1965 Chevrolet Impala: Stick It On A Rock In The Middle Of The Surf!
Selling a car on a television commercial isn’t as easy as it looks. Just plopping the car down and rattling off what it does have and how much it costs isn’t exciting. Exciting might...
Psychosteer: The 1984 Cadillac Eldorado ETC Has To Be The Most Unhappy Car In A Corner!
Until the Cadillac CTS series of cars appeared, nobody should have ever looked at a Cadillac product and thought, “You know, I bet that would make a bitchin’ corner carver!” I have...
Classic YouTube: Van Halen, Dolls And A Nissan 300ZX – Nightmare Fuel Or Cool TV Ad
The Nissan 300ZX was a far cry from it’s original Datsun 240Z predecessor, but in the early 1990s, a Twin Turbo Z was still a very impressive car…it might not have been a light and nimble...
Classic YouTube: The Chevrolet Vega “Cutaway” Commercial
Chevrolet bet big on the Vega when they debuted it in 1970. A new assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio was built, as were the unique Vert-a-pac rail cars that GM designed in conjunction with Southern...
Large And In Charge Video: The Construction And Transportation Of Graythorpe 1 – The World’s Largest Oil Rig In 1974
When it takes 150,000,000 gallons of water to make something float, you know it is large and in charge, right? Well that was the case in 1974 when welders and fabricators finished their work in...
When Mercury Was A Going Concern: This 1986 Laser Disc Preview Of Mercury’s Performance Cars Is Cool
Back when the Mercury division of Ford was a happening thing, they were all about getting on the performance bandwagon like the rest of the world was. Of course they, like the divisions of GM were...
Langdon, Beckman, Enders, and Pollacheck Win 2020 NHRA US Nationals – Watch Them Do It Here
Boy, it was some kind of race day on Sunday at the US Nationals. Everyone was wondering if it would feel like the US Nationals, if it would have that intensity and that craziness. Well, it did. You...
Where It Ended: The Final Days Of The Chrysler Turbine Program
The Chrysler Turbine Car program is best remembered for the unique 1962-1964 two-door sedans that were tested by the public. But there is much more to the story. The start of the turbine car program...
A Pair of Pro Mod Wild Rides From Indy: Kris Thorne and Steve Matusek Walked Away From Insane Crashes
The 66th running of the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA US Nationals was full of the same crazy stories, awesome runs, and big time performances that the race has delivered through its storied history. In the...