Category Archive: TECH, Videos
Weld Porn: The Plasma Bike Gets A Coffin Style Aluminum Gas Tank
Aug 29, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Weld Porn: The Plasma Bike Gets A Coffin Style Aluminum Gas Tank
Anyone who has ever fabricated a gas tank knows that there is a lot of work that goes into making one, even if it is just a plane box. But throw in a bunch of angles and such, like a Coffin style...
Historical Footage: MotorWeek’s Comparison Between The 1969 Pontiac Trans Am And The 1999 Trans Am 30th Anniversary Edition
Aug 29, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Historical Footage: MotorWeek’s Comparison Between The 1969 Pontiac Trans Am And The 1999 Trans Am 30th Anniversary Edition
Nobody…not MotorWeek, not GM, not even the buying public, could have seen that this would be the last Anniversary Trans Am. Sure, in 1999 rumors had started to surface that GM’s F-car...
Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!
Aug 28, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...
Old School Norwalk Video: Watch Eddie Harris Suffer A Bad Pro Mod Wreck At The IHRA World Nationals
Aug 28, 2020Brian Lohnes1
The IHRA get credit for debuting the category during their 1990 season after flirting with it by running top sportsman quick eight shootouts during previous years. The new heads-up eliminator was as...
Classic YouTube: Danny Bagwell’s 1999 Fire Sale Crash At Daytona
Aug 27, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
What happened, exactly? There isn’t much on record to the cause, but the aftermath was caught on video: during a Goody’s Dash race, Danny Bagwell’s Ford Escort ZX2 ricocheted off of...
Rhinoplasty, Stat: Foose Takes On The Challenge Of Making The Pontiac Aztek Pretty
Aug 27, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
In 1991, Homer Simpson learned he had a half-brother who ran a car company. The company wasn’t doing great, so they put Homer in charge of building the kind of car that he’d like to have...
Classic YouTube: Selling Binders On The Television
Aug 27, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Selling Binders On The Television
In one advertisement, the voice hawking the International Harvester line of light-duty trucks notes that they are competing against two big companies. Um…small correction: they were competing...
Fantastic FE Video: Watch A 482ci All-Aluminum Ford FE Big Block Get Built From Beginning To End
Aug 26, 2020Brian Lohnes3
There’s nothing like a good engine assembly video to make us happy and this is a GOOD engine assembly video. Our pal Jeff was at Prestige Motorsports when the shop was building a 482ci...
Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth
Aug 26, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth
We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...
Good Or Bad? The Car And Track Tests Of The 1974 Olds Cutlass And Mercury Cougar!
Aug 26, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
Throughout the 1970s, the Oldsmobile Cutlass ruled all. One of the best-selling cars of the decade, the Cutlass was the right mix of comfy, sporty, durable, and that final dash of what they were...
Classic YouTube: Reviewing The 1982 Pontiac Firebird, Pre-KITT
Aug 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Reviewing The 1982 Pontiac Firebird, Pre-KITT
Super-sleek, lighter on it’s feet and moments away from becoming a pop icon thanks to a television role, the new-for-1982 Pontiac Firebird lineup was needed. The second-gen car had done well...
Speedy Delivery! This Chevrolet C10 Flatbed Is Giving Us Really Good Ideas!
Aug 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Speedy Delivery! This Chevrolet C10 Flatbed Is Giving Us Really Good Ideas!
Work truck…yeah, I remember my first one. Later 1980s Dodge D-50 Ram 2wd, baby blue, stick shift, dead stock and had only been towed behind somebody’s recreational vehicle prior to the...
Historic Drag Racing Film: Awesomeness, Craziness, and Badness From Fremont In The 1960s and 1970s
Aug 25, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Drag Racing Film: Awesomeness, Craziness, and Badness From Fremont In The 1960s and 1970s
This right here is some GOLD. If you love old drag racing footage you’ll be on the edge of your seat for the 10:00 duration of this video. Why? You are going to see famous cars, wild runs, guys...
Get That Lean Going: The Brutal Test Of The 1969 Chevrolet Impala 396!
Aug 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
Seeing how Car and Track skewered the 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT during testing is one thing. The Camaro was at the end of any acceptable form of the Musclecar era, and had cowed into a soft, slow...