Two Engines and No Chance: Al Stein's Twin Engine Porsche Indy Car Was Homebuilt Perfection
The Indy 500 has long been recognized as one of the most amazing hot beds of racing innovation in history. The 1966 race saw a car that may well stand as one of the most unique, inventive, and downrig...
9 Sep 202434min
4.3 The Greatest Race You've Never Heard Of: A History of Bahamas Speed Week 1954-1966
Every winter for 13 years between 1954 and 1966 the greatest sports cars as well as the greatest sports car drivers in the world would gather in the Bahamas for what may well have been the coolest rac...
25 Feb 20241h 6min
4.2 The Wild History Of INDOOR Drag Racing In Chicago During The 1960s!
During three winters in the 1960s, hot rodders in Chicago had the unique opportunity to do something no one has been able to do before or since. They went drag racing indoors. The didn't just do it on...
9 Feb 202436min
4.1 Drag Racing's Darkest Day: The 1969 Yellow River Drag Strip Disaster
In early March of 1969, the single worst disaster in the history of American motorsports took place at a small, virtually unknown drag strip in rural Georgia. Yellow River Drag Strip was the scene of ...
5 Feb 20241h 7min
3.7 Origin Story: How Stock Car Racing Was Born In Los Angeles Circa 1934!
You think you know, but you have no idea. Stock car racing in the United States was born in the south, but not the south you are think of. On this episode of the Dork-O-Motive podcast, host Brian Lohn...
7 Sep 20231h 32min
3.6: Consumed: The First Ferris Wheel and How It Ruined The Life Of George Washington Ferris
What if I told you that the first Ferris wheel, built in 1893 was 265ft tall, powered by a 1,000hp steam engine, and carried 2,160 people at the same time! George Washington Gale Ferris is the man who...
29 Jun 20232h 50min
3.5: Cold War Crushers: The Awesome History of The Air Force Heavy Press Program
The US Air Force Heavy Press program, executed between 1950 and 1957 is one of the most incredible industrial achievements in history. After identifying a huge technology gap at the end of WWII, the g...
17 Mar 20231h 36min
3.4: Fastest - An Oral History of the 1992 Hot Rod Magazine Fastest Street Car Shootout
In 1992 Hot Rod Magazine gathered a collection of the fastest street cars in America for a showdown in Memphis, Tennessee. The reverberations of this event are still being felt today as it helped to r...
17 Des 20222h 15min
