When I was a kid, I despised kit cars. I can remember reading Road & Track and seeing the little ads in the back that promised a trick looking wide-body 356 Porsche with hardly any investment at all. You might need a little cash for the kit, a Pontiac Fiero or maybe a VW, and [...]
Motion Pictures
1955: Build A Car in 4 Hours
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Ryan
Filed under: Motion Pictures
Filed under: Motion Pictures
1940s Auto Mechanic…
Just stumbled across this 1940s vocational education film on becoming a mechanic. Its a great film clip for checking out vintage service equipment, car part cutaways, uniforms, etc. What strikes me is how radically the skill set has changed for a new car mechanic. In the pursuit of simplicity, reliability and safety, new cars have [...]
Arcata Airport – 1956
Relative to the rest of the world, sports car racing in America just wasn’t all that glamorous in the mid 1950’s. The Corvette was still early in production and Americans hadn’t yet mastered the set up and tuning of the imported sports cars. On top of that, the American born drivers and promoters had little [...]
Time Lapse – On The Road
Admittedly, this is a bit off topic. It’s a time lapse video set to some horrible music of a guy in a 60’s era ‘vert driving across the country. Hell, I don’t even know what kind of car he’s in, but for some reason I was still compelled to post it. There’s just something very [...]
Giovanine/Spurgin Roadster
I’m still on the road… We flew into Oklahoma City last night and as of this morning, I’m now in the car headed back to Austin. As such, I only have time for a quick post today. Luckily, Jimmy B did my work for me. In 1996, Curt Giovanine sat down with his dad, sister, [...]
“7 Second Love Affair”
The Chase family and the Cochran family were just finishing up some Mexican food this past Saturday night when we decided that a trip to the movie theater was in order. Stuffed with Austin’s best, we arrived at the theater only to find that the main attraction (Tarantino’s latest) was sold out. I was bummed. [...]
Climbing Hills
I’m on the road today headed toward Salina, so this is gonna be a quick post… My buddy Clive over at Stromberg sent the video below. It was taken at a Shelsley Walsh Hillclimb in England and features an early English “special” powered by a monster Ford flathead. Of course, Clive had the particulars on [...]
Ozzie & Harriet
I’m betting this has been posted before, but I had never seen the episode in it’s entirety and thought you fellas might enjoy it as well. It doesn’t get any more cheesy than Ozzie and Harriet, but the roadster footage really is pretty fantastic and some of the dialog between the two fathers discussing “old [...]
Tom Carsten’s Allard
Sydney Allard, a British fella, designed one hell of a sports car in the early 1950’s and called it the Allard J2. The design was so successful that it’s racing victories made stories around the world. It wasn’t long before American hot rodders were licking their chops trying to get at the car and Allard [...]
Vintage Hardtops
If you really think about it, the sport doesn’t get any more natural or wholesome than early hardtop racing. Take a stock car, strip it down to the essentials, add a “safety” feature or two, and then go out to the dirt track and make your pals eat dirt. It’s gloriously simple and straight forward… [...]
