Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Dyno Video: Twin 91MM Turbos, 534ci of Big Block Chevy, Whole Bunches of Horsepower
It wasn’t that long ago that nitromethane-burning engines were not making 2,000 hp. As you’ll see in this video, that magical number can be breached on gasoline in a hurry using a pair of...
More Killer Stunt Video: 1956 Chevy Promo Film Featuring the Joie Chitwood Stunt Drivers
We were a little harsh on the Joie Chitwood stunt show earlier, relaying our last memory of the program as relating only to the fact that they were driving Toyota Camrys. It wasn’t always like...
Cool Old Video: The Marathon Oil Hurricane Hell Drivers
Stunt and precision driving shows ain’t what they used to be. Scratch that, they are exactly what they used to be, except now they don’t do the truly death defying stuff like jumping cars...
Dyno Video: A Turbocharged 1938 Harley LSR Bike on the Chassis Dyno
Land Speed Racing is undoubtedly the last bastion of pure mechanical expression. Weird, arcane engine combinations are used without apology to set records and do things they were never originally...
Neato Video: A Stock 1929 Model A Flat Towing a 1930 Model A
There’s a fine line between genius and lunatic in the gearhead world, and the dude in this video is totally walking it. Flat towing another car with a stock (and we mean like 40hp engine,...
Craigslist Find: A Bad Ass 1978 Dodge Muscle Truck, with Video
Many times our Craigslist picks highlight some godawful wrecks or lampoon some big pile of mechanical grossness, but this week that is not the case. We found a totally awesome Dodge truck for sale in...
Classic Ad Video: The 1967 Pontiac GTO
We took a little heat yesterday for admitting that we thought Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” television commercial for the Charger was kind of neat. We’ve found a classic...
You’re Doing It Wrong Video: How Not To Unload an Excavator
There are lots of videos on the Internet of guys doing crazy impressive stuff with heavy equipment. This is not one of them. Luckily, according to the YouTube caption anyway, no one was hurt and the...
Doorslammer Drag Video: Pro Mod Action From the 1990 IHRA Fall Nationals
Since we’re on an obvious door slammer kick these last few days, the natural progression leads up to some awesome vintage Pro Mod footage from the first season that the class existed. In 1990,...
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...
Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race
Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...
Crazy Fail Video: Aussie Guy Almost Runs Over The Starter While Doing a Burnout
This is about as close a call as you’ll ever see at the strip. We can say that this is the only time we’ve ever seen a starter actually jump for his life to get away from a wayward car....