Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Cheap Jeep Challenge: Flogging Two Junkyard Cherokees For The Fun Of It!
One of the saddest sights you can lay eyes on as a gearhead is the last-chance lot next to a junkyard. You know what I’m talking about: they’ve been driven to death, but are still...
Morning Symphony: Fairbanks-Morse Engines At Startup
For a company came about as a merger between one unit that made cast-iron plows, heating stoves and scales, and another that made what is easily the most iconic windmill design of all time, the...
Classic YouTube: EVOC Training For The California Highway Patrol – 9C1 Caprices, B4C Camaro and SSP Mustangs!
The only way to become proficient at something is to do it until you master it. Doesn’t matter if it’s learning to play a musical instrument or shooting a machine gun, do it enough times...
What Does A Chrysler 360 Need In Order To Rock? Check Out This Bit Of Dyno Work!
The Chrysler 360, the unsung small-block of Ma Mopar’s list. It’s not the screamer 340 that powered Dusters, Demons and the like, and it’s not the anvil 318 that came in just about...
Daddy Long-Legs: The History Of The CH-54 Tarhe Heavy Lift Helicopter
Those with an ear for helicopter engines can pick out certain noises. The wop-wop-wop of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, for example, or the flat roar of an AH-64 Apache. One of the more distinctive noises...
Historical Video: Tazio Nuvolari’s Bombshell Win At The 1935 German Grand Prix
Taizo Nuvolari is one of those drivers whose name has become legendary in certain circles. Ferdinand Porsche considered the best racing driver, period and Enzo Ferrari championed him as the inventor...
Caption This: Risk Assessment? Never Heard Of Him.
DD Form 2977, “Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet”. What is it? In Army lingo, it’s a form that is used to identify, analyze and mitigate risks for everything from something as...
Seasoning The Floor Pan: Preparing The Interior Of The Independence Chevelle
No, it hasn’t just fallen apart and no, he hasn’t stopped working on it. Vice Grip Garage’s 1970 Malibu known as Independence is still coming together from it’s haggard,...
Historical Footage: Playing Catch and Release With Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks Aboard USS Akron
Nowadays, we can only imagine what it must have been like to see a gigantic airship like USS Akron or Graf Zepplin flying around in the skies. To put it to scale, the Akron was over three times as...
Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!
Scotty’s L67 Buick V6 build is probably my favorite project going this year that doesn’t involve me sweating my fat ass off in the Kentucky heat and humidity. I enjoy the 3.8L...
Ford Diesel Revival, Round Two: How Do You Start A Truck Hell-Bent On Staying Dead?
Two years ago, I saw one of Kevin’s earliest revival videos, the one that involved him chasing a pissed-off possum from the engine nest it had made on a Fiat 850 Spyder. Back then, not many...
Baby Huey Inbound: The One Time A C-130 Hercules Performed Carrier Operations!
The sheer scope of size that an aircraft carrier brings to the table defies belief. Even if you go back over fifty years ago, the aircraft carriers of the day were something to behold. Holding nearly...
Roaring Ford: Watch This 445ci Ford Make 845 Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno – Ooga Booga!
Scott Shafiroff is a guy who’s well know among drag racers and in the drag racing world because of his stellar career and because he has built one of the premier engine houses in the sport....
Slow Air In – Fast Air Out: This 60+ Year Old Film About Gas Turbines Is Awesome, Great History, Tech, More
While theory and ideas that make gas turbine engine function have long been known by humanity, it was really little more than 100 years ago that people had the means to make them into anything that...