As an event announcer, who has raced on multiple occasions while mic’d up and talking, I can also tell you that there have been a few times when someone had a bad idea like this that I jumped at and later on wondered if it was smart. I’m sure DW had a few moments like that during this lap. Check it out.

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Team BOC’s Jason Bright gave NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip his first taste of a V8 Supercar, taking him for some hot laps around Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia. The four-time NASCAR Champion was clearly thrilled with his high-speed passenger ride.

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The video is not slated so we have no idea what year it was made in, but it looks all the world like the late 1970s or early 1980s to us. The Corvette itself is a chrome bumper car so that gives you an indication of its age. Clearly the idea was not to add airbags to the C3 platform but to test their efficacy for later inclusion into cars like the C4 and up.

If there is one interesting element that seems to fail the dummies in this crash it is the seats and the seat belts. Watch how the “driver” slides completely out of the seat and kind of just tomahawks around the passenger compartment. With no side bolstering to hold the driver in place and only a three point belt, the side impact sends him for a pretty good ride after he rebounds off of the air bag.

This is cool stuff and proof that automotive safety has been as much an evolution as performance has, even in cars like the mighty Corvette.

Press play below to see this interesting old video from Chevrolet showing crash tests –

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From background information like the fact the truck was originally pitched as having used the Grand National proven 3.8L V6, to the point that two different companies were basically pitted against each other to create the prototypes which the company would eventually approve. Hell, we didn’t know that by government standards this thing is not even calld a GMC?!

Great history, story telling, and knowledge dropped here. Check this out!

Press play below to see this awesome video that tells the Syclone story!

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The neater parts of this video are when we get to go and see how the rings become a finished product (circa 1974, we’re guessing things have advanced slightly in 45 years). There’s loads of testing and R&D work being done in this video and we understand that it’s the same way for large piston ring manufacturers today as well. The basic ideology is largely the same but the methods, accuracy, and specs have all changed over the decades.

The last section of the video is a throwback to an era of engine work that really does not exist anymore. There’s a basic “how-to” that concentrates on how to perform a ring-job on an engine. How many times do we hear of cars getting a set of rings and sent back out on the road, anymore. Sure racing engines get them and perhaps if you buy an old truck or something and want to get it roadworthy but re-ringing the engine in the modern service life of a car is kind of a lost action anymore.

This is a fun watch.

Press play below to see this fascinating 1974 video from Perfect Circle Piston Rings –

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The most fun part of the video for us is watching a pretty stuff Carroll Shelby muddle his way through the script. At this point in his life, Shelby had not exactly spent a ton of time in front of the video camera as a “host” of anything. Of course, he took to it like a fish to water and by the time the “media age” was in full swing, Shelby was a smooth as silk on screen and right up until the end, his smiling face could be seen all over the country mugging for the camera. In this video he’s clearly not 100% comfortable with the scene but does a good job. It is just fun to see the guy who was always so smooth kind of ratchet his way through.

The racing footage and commentary from Dan Gurney are pretty awesome. We see stuff like the 24 Hours of Daytona, Sebring, etc, during the coolest periods of their existence. We said in the title that you’ve never seen this video before and hopefully you have not! We’ve never seen the video before and we troll the internet for hours and hours on end each day looking for this stuff. With only about 500 views when I posted this, I’m guessing only a few of you have ever stumbled upon the film gem.

Carroll Shelby may be gone but his legacy is still going strong. This video reminds us of his role in taking the American road racing effort and elevating it to something legit on the worldwide stage. It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t fast, but he was able to do what others were not and that was to take on the giant European names and beat them at their own game. Of course he had Ford’s bankroll behind him, but no matte how much cash you have, the results need to come and with Carroll Shelby, they did.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO WATCH THE AWESOME “CARROLL SHELBY GOES RACING WITH FORD” PROMOTIONAL FILM –

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This thing was a hod rod, not just by the standards of the day but really by any measure. The fact that it kept the American/Italian theme going so well is awesome and wait until you hear how it sounds because it sounds awesome. The MotorWeek crew had the car singing a good tune at the spacious and fast Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania so this was not just a deal that involved idling the car around the neighborhood, they get after it here! Not just in the slalom and brake stop stuff, either. The have this car on the NASCAR course as well as the infield road course.

Call us crazy but we’d love to own one of these cars now. Yes, we’d warm the 351 up a little, literally. Some aluminum heads, a little camshaft, and EFI would be plenty. Give us 500hp at the tire and we’ll be more than satisfied to hit the streets.

Oh, one last thing. How hot did your luggage get sitting directly over top the engine in the rear of the car?! Hopefully no one packed chocolate bars!

Press play below to see this awesome review of the Pantera GT5-S on MotorWeek –

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This video called, “Pit Stop” is basically a driver’s education film that is dressed up to look like a racing film. Hell, maybe it is a racing film dressed up as a driver’s ed piece. What we do know is that it is wall to wall cars. Some of the passenger cars shown are cool, like the Buick GS that kind of winds its way through the whole video. You’ll see racers like Mario Andretti and others getting after it. We think that it’s really cool the drags got a nod here among the other perhaps more high profile forms of competition.

If you were born in the first half of the 1950s and you were coming of age to get a license in the late 1960s, there’s an excellent chance that you actually watched this film. Did anyone see it as a fresh release? We think that this is a fantastic watch!

Press play below to see this 1967 film called Pit Stop from Coca Cola – This rules all –

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Yes the displacement was the same but the reality is that VW had changed so much of the guts of the engine to deal with boost and the increased power output that it was nearly a fresh piece when lined up with other standard 1.8L variants. How was performance? Damned good for the period and this was one of the models that helped to revive VW in the USA which had been struggling mightily since the cancellation of the Beetle and with Japanese competition which were producing cars of equal performance and quality for far shorter prices.

The supercharged Corrado would run the quarter mile in 15.7 seconds, it would get to 60mph in 7.5 seconds, and it would run to a top speed of 140mph. Those were legit performance numbers at the time and they were wrapped in an interesting looking package, which some people enjoyed and some did not. The Corrado would be produced through 1995 and its ultimate performance form would be with the VR6 engine, but the interesting fact there is that even with the VR6, in automatic trim the 1990 G60 was quicker to sixty!

Neat car. Anyone out there have one?

Press play below to see this retro review of the 1990 VW Corrado G60 –

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This is a little Yamaha TR125 and while we do know that it is huffed, we do not know where the turbo came from, how hilariously small it is, and where you can find one. We can tell you that according to the video there were virtually NO internal modifications to the engine. There were stronger clutch springs added to the engine which we’re guessing was to keep the thing from just running away on the stock clutch.

The engine was factory rated right around 26-27hp and with 1 bar of pressure being shoved into its face, enriched fuel system, and the hammer down this thing made 53hp effectively doubling the factory output and doing it in a very, very short money way.

Can you imagine this thing on the back of a shifter kart? We’re thinking that ginger throttle application would be necessary coming out of the corners and on the straights you’d be passing people like they were tied to a stump.

Fun deal here and a neat engine!

Press play below to see this turbocharged 125cc two stroke make power!

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What do we mean by “big” engine? Well there were two different blocks used to make the straight eight. The 320ci variant was in a block 34.5 inches long and the smaller variants like the 221, 230, 233, 235, 278, and even the larger 345 were built off a block that was 31.25 inches long. Just carry your measuring tape to the cruise night to figure out what family you’re looking at. People will love that, we’re sure.

The 320ci Fireball Eight had a 3 7/16th bore and stroke of 4 5/16. They did not turn a lot of RPM, obviously but they did make solid power for their day. The 320 was factory rated at 168hp at 3,800 RPM. Back in the era of their newness, they could compete with the best any other car company was cranking out. These engines actually become somewhat popular in the weirdo D/dragster category of drag racing in the 1960s where strange engines ruled the day. In fact, straight eight engines can still be found in pretty good supply at the Bonneville Salt Flats during speed week each, year. We have included video of a hairy one being dyno tested here.

So there’s your quick and dirty lesson on the 320ci Buick straight eight here on 3/20.

Here are some cool Buick straight eight videos – We THINK they all “big” engines –

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