Mini is going to race in the Dakar

Found on http://www.norcalminis.com/  where they frequently post cool unusual stuff

There are only 3 real sports... Ernest Hemmingway

Coolest sign I saw at SEMA this year

Dan Gurney

The only American to win a Grand Prix in a car of his own design (Gurney Eagle in the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix)
Later that year he also won te Rex Mays 300 in Riverside, making him the first to win races in Indy Car, NASCAR, Formula One, and sports car racing. Only two guys have done it since

Nascar trivia... what did a yellow rear bumper mean?

That the driver was a rookie. Used in 1973 that I know of, maybe other years.

Less than a car width away from the race cars that go past at about 120mph.. exhilerating. Speedfest 2011

Mini's racing in the vintage racing event San Diego has every September, at the North Island Naval Air Station, Speedfest

Las Vegas Speedway crash .. 15 car crash. One dead driver. Why?

Open wheel Indy Cars hadn't raced there since 2000, most of the drivers hadn't raced there before. And in 2006 the banks were reconfigured to the "Progressive banking" that allowed really high speeds of up to 230mph. Nonone had raced a Indy car there since.

So a 5 million dollar race announced by Indycar Chairman in his 2nd year, was the reason that they were there Sunday, and the open wheel cars... not to good to touch tires together and cause one to get airborne.

The Shelby King Cobra, the 1964 USRRC and USAC fall series from 1963-1964

 

Drive it like you stole it

photo by goncalo reis bispo
found on http://blacbird.tumblr.com/

Jay Leno has a car collection in his Bog Dog Garage, and they have a racing team, and it gets hauled around by a 1961 Flxible bus... that's classic!

pretty cool...

The RP-4, dual supercharged big blocks, dual props - contra rotating variable pitch props

built by Eric Hereth, master machinist, fabricator and welder, built all components of this remarkable aircraft from scratch, with the exceptions of engine long blocks, wheels, and hydraulic components. Jerry Baer assisted in all phases of construction. The RP-4 is the brainchild of David Rose

Found on http://alternateissues.tumblr.com/ but for any information, see http://www.coonfield.net/blog/2007/06/tomorrow-record-breaker-rp4.htm

For a fun 1980's street racing movie about a high schooler with a blown 350 Chevelle and a need to raise money betting on his wining the races, watch "Catch Me If You Can" on youtube, because it's no where else

 The movie starts with the guy racing a 73 Duster,  

 Then having to try his Chevelle against local senior talent, the Sandman. The Sandman was played by an incredibly long working guy, Bob Minor, who has been doing movie and tv stunts and stunt coordinator work since 1970. He's worked in lots of the blaxploitation movies, and Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, Magnum PI, Boyz in the Hood, Die Hard 4, Conspiracy Theory, Oceans 11, The Italian Job and many more. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591567/

 The Sandman couldn't make the curve when the cops started chasing the streetracers, and wiped out

 then the guy has several races against some cool cars, and keeps winning.

And with his confidence at an all time high, he then takes a high stakes bet with the local gangster loan shark, the Fatman, that he can beat the gangters driver, the rotton crook gangster fixes the race with a ringer who destroys the Chevelle, and the high schooler loses his mony.

in a desperate attempt to win double or nothing, the kid bets he can beat the local street racing legend "Fast Freddy" 's historically famous high speed run from Minneapolis to St Paul. Surpise polt twist, the kids High School Principl was Fast Freddy, and the 57 Chev that made that race is buried under the football field, ready to get vengeance against the gangster

The high school auto shop class gets the 57 Chev race ready, and pulls off the first water soluble paint job in a movie I ever saw. Also the first example of the one car gets chased into a building by cops, but lots of identical cars leave, and the cops can't track the right car... trick. Mix them together and a red car goes in but leaves a car wash blue with a flamejob, among a dozen other cars or various colors

This movie is fun, but never going to get put on DVD, there just isn't a demand for 1980's high school action street racing movies. The VHS is so rare, the one guy who has them on Amazon, wants $170 dollars.

I hate price gougers, so I'm telling all of you you can watch it free on You Tube. The quality isn't sharp, but neither was 1980's tv and movie resolution.

For part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFQLo8XV-I then just look on the righ hand sidebar for hte related videos, parts 2 and 4... 3 has been deleted