Ludicrous Speed: The Racing and Land Speed Record Tractors of the 1930s
This is a look back, 90+ years back into the history of speed to check out the exploits and impact of the amazing racing tractors created by the Allis-Chalmers company in the 1930s that literally chan...
2 Jun 202514min
Harnessing Hell: A History Of Top Fuel Clutch Technology 1950-1970
This is the story of how early drag racers developed the clutch technology that has ultimately lead to the engineering wonders in today's 11,000hp top fuel dragsters and nitro funny cars. It is the st...
2 Jun 202535min
War For The Woods: The Incredible Effort To Save New England's Forests After The Hurricane of 1938
When the Hurricane of 1938 struck New England, it was a disaster of proportions unknown to the region at that point. No storm in modern history had wrought more destruction or devastation than that on...
12 Mai 202534min
The Malcontent: Scotty Fenn's Self-Destruction In Drag Racing
There are few stories in the history of drag racing that can compare to that of Alfred Gordon Fenn, known as Scotty. He was a visionary and created the first commercial dragster chassis business in th...
12 Mai 202548min
The Buffum V8: America's Long Ago Forgotten First V8 Powered Production Car
He was a man with dozens of patents to his name, the designer of the first four cylinder car in America, the first eight cylinder car, and the first V-8 production car, but have you ever heard of him?...
12 Mai 202514min
Battling Beast of Burden: The Story Of The Massive M26 Dragon Wagon Truck of WWII
This is the in-depth history of what I believe to be the greatest heavy duty truck of the second world war. The M26 tank retriever was a machine designed with armor, with an engine of 1,090ci, with br...
7 Okt 202426min
War Hemi: The Story of Ford's 1,100ci Aluminum WWII GAA V8
It's a stunning thing to realize that Ford mass-produced an 1,100ci, dual overhead camshaft, alunimum block, flat plane crank V8 in the 1940s. Sill the largest mass produced V8 engine ever, it was jus...
24 Sep 202419min
Drag Racing's Mad Scientist: The Beautiful Mind Of Sneaky Pete Robinson
This is the story of one of the greatest minds in the history of the sport of drag racing. Lew Russell Robinson known more widely as "Sneaky Pete" Robinson was an innovator without equal in the 1960s....
9 Sep 202440min
