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Mickey Thompson's 1960 Bonneville Record Run
70's Porsche Documentary
1969 24 Hours of Le Mans Video
2009 Coronado Speed Fest
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Mickey Thompson In 1960 a 32 year old hot rodder drove a backyard built, quad Pontiac powered car to 406.60 mph on the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats. The shaky run propelled the young man, Mickey Thompson, into the spotlight as he became the first first American to break the 400mph barrier.
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2009 BMW Sauber F1 It’s the end again for BMW in F1, the fruitless 2000’s era was quietly wrapped up in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday with ex-BMW Sauber F1 test driver Sebastian Vettel taking the checkered flag. Nick Heidfeld managed a respectful 5th pace, and Robert Kubica took the number 10 position.
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I stumbled upon this fantastic short documentary about Porsche automobiles on YouTube. No information is given about the brilliant little piece, although it appears to be produced by Porsche in the early 1970’s and was likely intended to be used as an ornate sales pitch for the North American market.
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Attention bachelors, apparently there’s a life long lesson to be learned in this long forgotten 1970 Dodge commercial – bikini clad ladies dig the Charger 500.
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This short video was released back in 1991 by BMW of North America to build some hype for the e34 BMW M5. The dated drum and keyboard music coupled with deep voiced narration gives it a nice early 90’s vibe.
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The Coronado Speed Fest was incredibly fun this past weekend. Hundreds of vintage race cars gathered on the naval base in Coronado for the 12th annual “race on the base”, part of fleet week in San Diego.
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Forget work, you need to watch this remarkable footage of the legendary 1969 24 hours of Le Mans. La Ronde Infernale is the name of the film and it’s been broken down into four fun size pieces.
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Here’s a pleasant look back at a pair of ultra cool VW Rabbit GTI and Renault R5 Turbo RC cars manufactured by Tamiya in the early 80’s.
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This classic informational movie, Ingenuity in Action, was produced by Hot Rod Magazine in 1958 to explain how to prepare and enter a race car into a NHRA sanctioned drag race. The music, characters and narration is Leave it to Beaver like, very innocent yet entertaining. It’s from an era when the race cars were basically [...]
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The news about GM struggling to survive this past year is getting outright depressing. Yesterday, all the news outlets started discussing the money-back guarantee commercial featuring Ed Whitacre. I think it’s a smart move but I’d like to take a moment and take a step back to a time when GM was on top, like the 50’s. That was [...] |
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