Here’s more awesome coverage from this year’s Holley Hot Rod Reunion. “Tater” Ron Wilson bought this 1964 Mack B-61 out of somebody’s yard and restored it over the course of a year.
“There’s no replacement for displacement.” That certainly seems to hold true for professional drifting in the Formula D series for the past few years. A lot of the teams have switched to large displacement V8 engines for big power numbers with good reliability and a broad torque curve. The MPGomatic channel on YouTube broke from their usual content to film this mini-documentary on the rise of V8’s in Formula D. It’s mainly interviews with the drivers of Formula D with some drifting clips mixed in. They talk about the history of turbocharged inline 4’s and the reasons that caused the shift to V8’s in Formula D. The back half of the video also has input from the few drivers who are holding out with turbocharged and rotary engines.
Sometimes I wish I could have lived in the 60’s and 70’s – the Golden Age of the Muscle Car and the California Hot Rodder. This era produced legends like Carrol Shelby and Mickey Thompson. These guys built world class race cars, businesses and even their own racing series with street smarts and practical experience. It’s something that could never happen this day in age. Nobody believes in the concept of the self-taught engineer anymore. That wasn’t true back then. Watch this video to see what I’m talking about. It’s the history of Mickey Thompson as told by his son Danny. He was a radical innovator, both technically and financially, in several forms of racing.
1 week, 1500 miles, 3000 cars. This year’s Hot Rod Power Tour ran from the GM Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan to Arlington Texas. This is the proper way to celebrate cars: Drive Them.
If you frequent this blog, I would hope that you can appreciate burnouts, wheelstands and drag racing. If that’s the case, then you liking this next video is a no brainer.