As with Harlo at The Chicane, we don’t follow most of the dialog in this trailer for the 1957 Italian flick “I fidanzati della morte,” but that don’t matter because the motorcycles and the racing are...
From The Old Motor comes this Josh Clement video documenting the John “Hawkeye” Hawkinson collection before it was recently dispersed following Hawkeye’s death. Some pretty remarkable vehicles there....
Adam Carolla’s documentary on the Ford-Ferrari rivalry of the Sixties, “The 24-Hour War,” will be out soon. Here’s the trailer. * Robert Merz takes us for a Sunday drive in the 1925 Ford Model T that...
How do you make a gas station stop in a vehicle that literally belches fire? Carefully, apparently. Earlier this year, the Beast of Turin made its longest road trip in more than a century when it too...
Like Enzo Ferrari, Ettore Bugatti is one of the most revered European auto builders whose cars only barely eclipsed the story of his life, as told in this short video biography that Mac’s Motor City ...
With the big annual Bathurst race coming up, let’s check out a Bathurst from nearly 40 years ago with the 1977 running up Mount Panorama. ( via ) * Who doesn’t want to experience the Pegaso’s desmo V...
As Mac at Mac’s Motor City Garage described this 1966 promo for the Chevelle SS 396, it’s bad – not so bad it’s good, but still fascinatingly bad. Whoever Chevrolet hired to produce it must’ve concei...
Dating to 1984, this 25-minute interview with Enzo Ferrari is probably the best such interview put down on video and the best account of Ferrari from Ferrari himself. * Chrysler didn’t just whip up t...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into animat...
Found footage of old race events is pretty awesome, but some of the videos put together with that footage rather lacks. Not so with the one The Chicane recently spotlighted, which shows the action at...
Perhaps one of the most memorable and influential ad campaigns – not just for automobiles, but of all time – was that run by DDB for Volkswagen. To get to the bottom of why it worked so well and how ...
Drag racing in Britain got a big push forward when the NHRA took several of its big names and their cars over for exhibition races in the mid-Sixties, as seen in this British Pathe video that Mac’s M...
Before the news gets too old, Johnny Smith’s Flux Capacitor, his electric 1974 Enfield 8000 ECC, which we’ve linked to in the past, recently ran in the 9s. While poking around on YouTube, we came acr...
While the vintage racing footage includes plenty of glimpses of all sorts of NASCAR notables from the aero war era, the focus on this two-part documentary is on the Chargers and on Dodge’s efforts to...
Sure, it’s a bit sensational to show Jay Leno in the famed Hemi Under Glass wheelstander as it takes a tumble for Jay’s show, but it’s also a part of the car’s history now, something to be noted when...
For most people, the most iconic vehicle from the Back to the Future films is the DeLorean. Fair enough. For one guy in Massachusetts, it was always the Toyota pickup, and 30-plus years later, he own...
Even those of us who thought we knew everything about the only carmaker based on the Isle of Man will have something to glean from this video tribute to Cyril Cannell, whether it’s his story about ho...
While the Ford Escort did an admirable job in rallying in the late Sixties, the company still found itself outclassed in the Monte Carlo by the likes of Porsche and Renault with its Alpine, so to com...
The theme for today’s Sunday Cinema: flat-out wheels-off-the-ground abuse-it-half-to-death take-a-lickin-and-keep-on-ticking torture testing. We’ll start with a short video that Lindsay Wilson recomm...
One of the first runnings of the Charade circuit in France was captured in this 16-minute video from 1958 showing plenty of Ferraris Porsches, Lotii, and other interesting cars in their natural habit...
Making the rounds this week has been this Porsche-produced video targeted to the American market showing how Stuttgart built the 356. * How many times does the narrator of this early Seventies Jeep W...
Why do we keep showing vintage films from Bonneville? Could be the stark beauty of the salt flats. Could be the famous cars and their drivers, then just amateurs in pursuit of speed. Could be the DIY...
This year’s Retromobile had a special display of what they called rhomboids – cars with their wheels laid out in a diamond pattern – and Goodwood’s videographer was there to get some footage of the u...
Crazy, right? Mercury’s Wrist-Twist steering couldn’t have ever worked, could it? Except, as we see in this rather sexist Mercury promo video that Mac’s Motor City Garage unearthed showing the steeri...