Items tagged with: Videos

Four-Links – first ute, Citroen sabotage, midengine Rampy, jerrycan design

How did Australia come to give the world the ute? As Unique Cars pointed out this week, there’s two conflicting reports on the origins of the coupe utility, and naturally, both Ford and Holden vie fo...

VIDEO: Watch this AMX get Breedloved

This week, we’re all fixated on AMC muscle. They’re some of the most oft-overlooked cars of those glorious early muscle years, and we wholly dig it. And, so did land-speed racer Craig Breedlove, appa...

The Lauda Legacy – A Stereoscreen Film

It's always a treat to find a new email in my inbox from Tim Hahne, the director responsible for Adrenalin, the BMW Touring Car Story, as well as No Limits, the story of Alex Zanardi's return to raci...

WATCH THIS: stretch your boundaries and your wish-wallet!

If you either poke around on YouTube enough or have a Millennial living under your roof, chances are good that you’ve at least heard of Ken Block, of the Kingdom of Hoon and the Seer of Gymkhana. Now...

In which good roads would be too easy: Following along with the 1997 Peking to Paris

In researching the first Peking to Paris race, we of course came across plenty of mentions of the more recent tributes to the original, including this documentary following the route and participants...

Four-Links – Turbo Titan III, Wagner-Hagans Auto Museum, Autorama lowriders, peat tractor

Mac’s Motor City Garage recently wrote up a good primer on the Turbo Titan III, GM’s turbine-powered experimental semi. All through the 1950s, General Motors held high hopes for the gas turbine engin...

WATCH THIS: Quain Stott and his Southeast Gassers go big on the small screen!

By the time you read this, our own Quain Stott and his epic Southeast Gassers Association will have made their prime-time cable debut on Discovery’s “Moonshiners.” Full disclosure: since we write the...

“The Anti-Establishment Supercar”: Acura celebrates 30 years of its game-changing NSX

Images are courtesy of Honda. Dateline, Chicago Auto Show, February 1989: A few booths away from where Mazda was introducing the future of the classic British roadster sat Honda’s answer to the raref...

Four-Links – 50 years of GT-R, DS tiller, exploded Miura, short-frame Buicks

This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...

WATCH THIS: the birth of Muscle?

If you’re a regular getter and reader of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter, you no doubt jumped in on (if not were entertained by) the discussion around the factory muscle that was heaped upon us...

“Small enough to get about this shrinking, crowded world:” the design and construction of BMC’s original Mini

Front-wheel drive had been done before, of course. Even the transverse engine front-wheel-drive layout predated the Mini. However, as this 1961 BMC video via British Pathe notes, Alec Issigonis’ triu...

WATCH THIS: the NASCAR question of the ages!

This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...

The roar versus the whine: When turbines battled internal combustion for supremacy at Indy

After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...

The roar versus the whine: When turbines battled reciprocal engines for supremacy at Indy

After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...

Four-Links- Seattle’s electric cars, buried art car, Siva, Mustang restorer goes bankrupt

Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...

WATCH THIS: Hot indoor muscle action to keep you warm!

Look, we know. We know how miserable it is outside this week. We also know that even if your garage is attached to the house, there’s a literal snowball’s chance that you’re gonna be in it, anytime s...

“The most difficult form of surveillance to carry out undetected.” The CIA shows us how to tail a spy

Given the fact it’s been uploaded to YouTube and now we’re able to share it, the information in this CIA mobile surveillance training video from 1974, shot around the western London suburbs, is likel...

Four-Links – a Packard plant mystery, more on the Galva Checker, Brighton and Hove Motor Club meet, first car to drive around Australia

Photo by Mike Boening. Prior to the collapse of the production line bridge at the former Packard plant this week, the Detroit News ran a piece looking back on an unusual chapter in the plant’s histor...