Category Archive: MISC, Videos
Sunday Movie Day: Cledus Snow Saves The Day In His Big Rig At The End Of Smokey And The Bandit I
In a recent conversation with friends, we talked about how Smokey and the Bandit may have become the largest grossing movie of 1977 had it not run into another small sci-fi flick with the title of...
Cool Metal Fabrication Video: A Master Blacksmith Makes Real Wolverine Claws And Then Mangles Stuff With Them
As you might have surmised from the title, this post has absolutely nothing to do with cars, but it has everything to do with awesome fabrication and metalworking skills and those are things that...
Jay Leno Shows You What Is Being Worked On In His Shop: A Hemi-Powered Cunningham, A Porsche Restoration, And More!
Jay Leno is a car guy, through and through, there is no doubt about it, and he has the money to do whatever the hell he wants to do. But the reason we like what he does is that he didn’t...
Morning Symphony: The Gumpert Apollo S Is As Snotty And As Powerful As The People Who Can Afford Them!
There is a phrase that I’ve only recently become familiar with that has an, to me at least, an interesting context: “F___ you money”. If you’ve seen the movie “The Wolf...
Watch A Wheel For The Bloodhound SSC Get Spin Tested To 1,100 MPH In A Huge Test Rig
One of the things we have long admired about the Bloodhound SSC project is that the organizers and builders have managed to turn the whole venture into a huge source of national pride and teamwork...
Insanity on Ice: Unlimited Sleds of the Golden Age of Snowmobile Speed Runs, With Video
While winter has not gotten here in the technical sense of the date, the worm has turned for us in northern climates and it is cold, grey, and occasionally flurrying here and there. We know a guy in...
Unhinged: The Six New Presenters Of Top Gear Have Been Announced. Will The Show Be Worth Watching? Let’s Look At The New Faces And Find Out…
Finally, we seem to have a resolution to the TopGear “fracas” that started when Jeremy Clarkson decked assistant producer Oisin Tymon over a missing steak dinner about a year ago. While...
Best Of 2015: Plowing Snow Like A Boss Using An Old Honda Three-Wheeler!
A fairly hidden fact is that before I got deep into cars I was deeper into bikes and trikes. I loved my dirt bikes, but without question the one ride that I adored above all others were early 1980s...
Dyno Video: This AMC Spirit Is Kicking Out 433 Horsepower At The Wheels – Bet It’s A Lot Of Fun On The Street!
When you review the history of American Motors, it becomes apparent that making it to 1987 was actually nothing short of a miracle. After reaching their height about 1971 or so, AMC took a steady...
Early Christmas Shopping: Watching This Rally Driver Play DiRT Rally On A Serious Racing Sim Makes Us Want The Whole Setup!
Racing games have come a long way since I first played Rad Racer as a kid. Who am I kidding, they’ve come a long way since the original Gran Turismo came out on the first Playstation, and back...
Cool Video: Hurst Racing Tires – A Pocket Bio Of The Retro-Slick Manufacturer!
Hurst Racing Tires in Oregon still makes slicks the old fashioned way…literally. These guys take a bias-ply tire, grind all of the tread off, lay a softer rubber compound on the casing and then...
Check Out This Huge Remote-Controlled MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter – You’d Swear It Was Real
In a past life, I was an Army helicopter technician, and I worked closely with other military branches, units, and helicopter crews from other countries. Out of all of the stories I gained in those...
Allow Buick And Bar Refaeli To Show You How To Relax…Um…It Has Something To Do With Cars, We Promise
The truth: Buick recently unveiled the “24 Hours Of Happiness” test drive program. Simply possess a valid driver’s license and insurance, and you can take a Buick out for 24 hours...
