I really enjoy these Depth of Speed videos. They do a great job capturing the essence of what it means to love a car like the owner of this Mercedes Benz Gullwing 300SL. He’s wanted one since he was 10 years old and now that he’s made it in life, he’s got one. It’s kept mechanically sound and the owner drives it everywhere. No sterile trailer life for this car.
Toyota Motorsports GmbH (GmbH is the German equivalent to a LLC Limited Liability Company here in the US) has announced that it will take its P002 electric race car to this year’s Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Here’s some footage of them doing some testing at the Paul Ricard Circuit:
Chris Duplessis of the Dirtfish Rally School won the Susquekannock Trail Round of the 2012 Rally America Series in a Ford Fiesta R2. The FWD rally car looks very well sorted in the footage and it adds to the current model Fiesta’s reputation of rally success already formed in WRC and with the hooligans in the Global Rally Championship.
If this isn’t one of the simultaneously cool and nerdy videos that you’ve ever seen, then you’re just too hard to impress. The motivation behind the Science & Engineering posts on this blog are to show people that learning isn’t always about dry math and boring analysis. Figuring out how things work and then turning around and using it to your advantage can be fun and improve the things that touch your life. Case in point: this video. The band playing the music is called ArcAttack. They built two custom Tesla coils that shoot half million volt arcs up to 12 feet. There’s also a robot drummer and LED light show to go along with the live members of the band. This particular performance was shot at this year’s Bay Area Maker’s Faire where Adam Savage gave a speech before agreeing to get inside the Faraday cage while ArcAttack! performed. Without the pursuit of science and inventing, we would be devoid of awesome things like AC/DC literally being played with lightning.
Here’s another random Japanese car meet mass exodus video I found on YouTube. It’s good to see so many of the classics well taken care of and on the road. Lots of old Skylines, RX-7’s, S30 Z’s and even a couple of Toyota Crestas.