The Studebaker XH-9350: The Largest Piston Airplane Engine That Never Flew
The most monstrous WWII aircraft engine that you have never heard of is called the Studebaker XH-9350. A truly mind boggling project that Studebaker was the last option for when it began in 1942, it's...
30 Juni 40min
Oil Burners: The Improbably Awesome History of Cummins At The Indy 500
Cummins diesel engines are an American institution. They've been one of the most massive manufacturers of diesel engines in the United States for more than 100 year now, but did you that they have an ...
24 Juni 59min
AMC vs The World: How Two 1979 AMC Spirits Won Class At The 24 hours of The 'Ring
This is the story of how a 1979 AMC AMX won its class at the 1979 24 Hours of the Nurburgring. Not only that, how it was done with two hastily built cars, a group of six drivers that included a Hollyw...
23 Juni 26min
The Decade That Tried To Kill Nitro Drag Racing: The 1970s
Incredibly, nitro powered drag racing nearly didn't survive the 1970s. It is a story often lost to modern history but it's a harrowing tale of shortages, price escalation, racer intervention, and the ...
27 Maj 35min
Sunken Hemi: The Chrysler Concept Car At The Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean
It was late 1956 and craftsmen in Turin were thrashing to complete the latest, mosrt beautiful, and most complex project they had ever done for Chrysler. It was a concept car called The Norseman and i...
27 Maj 33min
Slicks: The Sticky History of the World's Fastest Racing Tires
The story of drag racing is typically seen as one defined by insane horsepower. The super fuels, the massive blowers, the acceleration that is unmatched by any wheel driven vehicle on Earth. But th...
27 Maj 1h 46min
Glorious Failure: Mickey Thompson's Wild 1967 Wynn's Spitfire Indy 500 Car
f there is a story in American motorsports history more compelling than Micke Thompson versus the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I am not sure what it is. The man conquered everything in his path over t...
17 Dec 202534min
War Boost: An Introductory Lesson In WWII Aircraft Engine Supercharging
There's nothing like upping the horsepower of an engine with boost. Multiple methods of supercharging exist today and have been brought to an incredible level of efficiency. While these methods were...
8 Dec 202521min
