Items tagged with: Videos

Four-Links – Packard WWI trucks, Indy 500 viper, STP FTC, Lordstown

Dave Lockard, who we met at Hershey a few years back, will take home a pair of AACA National awards for his pair of Packard World War I trucks, as we learned this week on the WWI Centennial Commissio...

WATCH THIS: the long-gone trailer for “Hi-Riders”

When I first moved from the East Coast to California, I paid attention to the whispers of “hi-riders” I kept hearing at car shows in the East Bay region of the Northern California San Francisco Bay A...

Four-Links – Clyde Coleman, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, straight 12, Cyclops Bonneville

Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...

VIDEO: Watch the most unique donut you’ll see all day!

When we first heard of the automotive-centric series that our cousins up the hill at Condé Nast Entertainment had sold to Netflix, we were admittedly a little skeptical. “A drag race elimination show...

Signor Rossi buys a car

Back in 1966, Bruno Bozzetto released this short animated film following Signor Rossi’s purchase of a car and all the miseries and madness and anti-social tendencies that come along with the purchase...

Four-Links – Studebaker plates, Comuta, Simpsons cars, bikes

Starting January 1, Indiana residents can purchase specialty plates to support the Studebaker Museum. The first one had better go on a South Bend product. * In the late Sixties, Ford’s vision of an e...

Video: Vintage two-stick master!

Look, we’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Gearheads cannot live on muscle cars alone. And it’s in that continuing vein that we bring you this week’s departure from the usual muscle car fare...

“Make Winter Driving Safer” in the early 1980s

Still image from video below. “Tom?” I called up to my 18-year-old son, who was in his room. “What?” he replied. “Come down to the living room, please.” “Why?” “Because I want to show you this vintag...

“Definitely a genius, allegedly a rogue:” The Secret Life of Colin Chapman

What exactly was the connection between Colin Chapman’s Lotus and John DeLorean’s DMC? How did Chapman keep Lotus going financially — and personally — in the years before his death? Through interview...

Four-Links – lost Indy 500 broadcasts, DeLorean the man, GM the housebuilder, 1901 Packard

The IMS Museum announced this week that it has digitized a good number of recordings of Indy 500 races past and is now offering the digital recordings for sale. * The story that Alex Pappademas wrote...

VIDEO: The reality of the “barn find”

If there’s a siren song that we’ll all dash our ship upon the rocks over these days, it’s the lure of the “barn find.” We’re all looking for one. Reality TV has placed its bet on them. The auctions s...

“There’s only winners and losers at Bathurst, and we don’t want to be a loser.” The 1979 Hardie Ferodo 1000

While there are other races on the Australian Touring Car Championship schedule, other circuits around Oz to turn a tire in anger, it’s Bathurst (technically the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, N...

Four-Links – Impala RIP, Gladiator reborn, holiday buses, first convertible

Amid the big announcements from GM this past week came the news that the company was canceling a number of models, including the Impala, which this year turned 60. Eric Lawrence at the Detroit Free P...

RE Olds Transportation Museum previews “R.E. Olds & The First Auto City”

The RE Olds Transportation Museum. Image via Google Street View. Lansing, Michigan, is best known outside the automotive world as being the state capital, a designation it received in 1847 on the fee...

Four-Links – Allard repros, by Minor to South Africa, IMS Museum, oldest concrete street

The New York Times reported this month that the current Allard replica scene will soon double with an entry from Sydney Allard’s family, who are none too happy about the existing replicas. * New Zeal...

AACA Library to host film series for in-house digitized car films

Still from AACA Library video of 1965 Glidden tour. With about half of the films in the AACA Library’s collection now digitized, the library’s staffers have organized a film series to not only showca...

Cheaper than a plane ticket to Munich: a tour through the BMW Museum

Granted, this video tour of the BMW Museum by Car TV is coming up on four years old, but it still makes for an interesting half-hour or so. We especially appreciate the lack of a soundtrack or narrat...

Four-Links – Wild Cherry found, Greyhound in Canada, Elegante, Carbon Copy

In the ongoing saga of the Wild Cherry custom van, Teri Maddox of the Belleville News-Democrat reported this week that Chris Carter has been extradited to California and that it appears the van has b...

VIDEO: watch the cover come off our cover car!

If you saw our latest issue of Muscle Machine s, you’ll notice that the car on the cover is what the kids call a “WIP:” Work In Progress. And the great thing about a WIP is that, sooner or later, it’...

Exclusive: A sneak peek and video of SEMA Show build!

Sneak peek at the Cotati Speed Shop ’68 Camaro roadracer/roadrager. Shot by Eric Haines for Hemmings Muscle Machines. If you’re reading this, we’re gonna go ahead and assume you’re familiar with the ...

Two-thirds attrition rate: Following along with IV La Carrera Panamericana

Image courtesy ArteAuto.com. The videos are shaky and grainy and in Spanish, but 65 years later they remain fascinating because they’re first-hand accounts of the fourth running of La Carrera Panamer...

Four-Links – Scott Henderson, fountain Buick, Oz vannin, Stude brew (or brewdebaker)

Steve McKelvie let us know this week that Scott Henderson, a Great Race rally driver who notably helped save a Buick that lost its brakes from tumbling off the Mount Washington auto road this past su...

Nitto Tire Presents: HANGTIME

Drifting, Ultra-4 trucks, and blending the two: How's that for an even better combo? The latest release from Nitto, Driving Line, and Race Service has the whole Nitto crew up to their antics. Enjoy a...

VIDEO: watch this analog, celluloid glory unfold!

A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...

VIDEO: watch this anolog, celluloid glory unfold!

A brief moment when drag racing and beehives collided in full vintage glory. Ah, 1970. In Drag Racing, it was that magical period that was still everything good about the glorious Sixties, but nothin...

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