Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Historic Drag Video: The 1973 Manufacturer Funny Car Showdown From Byron Dragway!
Since today’s the day that Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2017 arrives at historic Byron Dragway in Illinois, we thought it would be cool to look back on the good old days of the class in the form...
Happy Birthday To The BUFF! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress First Flew On This Day In 1952!
April 15th, 1952 is a significant day for aviation. It is the day that the YB-52 prototype aircraft, the predecessor to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber, first flew with A. “Tex”...
The Honda Trail 70 Revival: Clearing Out The Fuel System And Seeing If It Will Run
I’m completely and utterly enamored with the revival of this 1972 Honda CT-70 Trail 70 motorcycle, mostly because I cut my teeth (and a few other body parts) riding one of these around on...
Beater Blasters: Will Ten Grand And Two Craigslist Specials Turn Into Off-Road Racers?
In the white corner, sporting a 4.0L inline six cylinder that’s pissing coolant all over the place, a fender that’s being held on by a zip-tie and a prayer, and a rear-view mirror that...
Watch The Scaled Composites Stratolaunch Take To The Skies For The First Time!
It’s wingspan is bigger than the length of an American football field by twenty-five feet. Empty, it weighs in at a half-million pounds, and it has a maximum take-off weight of 1.3 million...
Vintage TV Ad Perfection: Evel Knievel In All His 1970s Greatness Hawking AMF Bikes
There were few people more famous in the 1970s than the late Evel Knievel. From jumping motorcycles to jumping canyons (Ok…trying to jump canyons) he was known around the world for his feats of...
Five Minutes of Fury: Ride Along Inside This Classic Mini As It Battles Tooth And Nail On The Road Course
It has been said that racing a Mini is like wrestling a bear inside a phone booth and after watching this video we can see why. Racer Dickie Maeden is the pilot here and he’s the one getting...
This Video Featuring The Manufacturing Of Huge Springs, Cranks, and Other Massive Metalwork Rules
Shaping and manipulating metal is one of the most important things that humans have learned to do in our existence. Whether be the heat and pressure of a forge, or by the precise cutting of a mill,...
Unhinged: The Lemons Rally Retreat From Moscow And The Beauty Of The Beater
How, exactly, do you explain the automotive sickness to someone who simply doesn’t understand what everything is about? Can you properly explain it? As far as I can tell, you can’t....
Lookin’ Back: Watch The 1989 Houston NHRA Event Broadcast To Prepare For This Weekend’s FOX Show
In 1989, the NHRA made its second trip to Baytown, Texas outside of Houston to put on the Supernationals. The event continues for the 32nd time this coming weekend at the same track it was run on...
Great Video: Following Mickey Thompson’s Team At The 1967 Indy 500 – Cool Cars, Interesting Race
This is one of those old films/videos that you watch and repeatedly say to yourself, “Oh, that’s how that went,” or “Oh, that’s how that sounded.” From the way the...
Full Send: The SRRS Series’ Rock Bouncer Competition At Wildcat ORP!
“Bet you can’t do it.” Those five words have started more problems and have whipped up more competition than any others, we’d wager. Nobody likes to be told that they...
