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Monday, April 15, 2013

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Normally when we show you a drag racing video it features something like a Mustang Cobra Jet making a 7 second pass or doing a massive wheelie. This video is a little bit different, though. It comes from RM Auctions, who sells some of the most desirable collector cars in the world including two very rare 1965 Shelby GT350R race cars that were offered in the last year. The auction house found themselves with a pair of cars going up for sale at upcoming auctions – a 1966 Shelby GT350 and a Peel P50 Microcar – and decided to let them settle their differences in a drag race.


The result is…well…predictable with a little bit of humor thrown in.


You can watch the video of the mismatched drag race by clicking the play button below.


Normally when we show you a drag racing video it features something like a Mustang Cobra Jet making a 7 second pass or doing a massive wheelie. This video is a little bit different, though. It comes from RM Auctions, who sells some of the most desirable collector cars in the world including two very rare 1965 Shelby GT350R race cars that were offered in the last year. The auction house found themselves with a pair of cars going up for sale at upcoming auctions – a 1966 Shelby GT350 and a Peel P50 Microcar – and decided to let them settle their differences in a drag race.


The result is…well…predictable with a little bit of humor thrown in.
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You can watch the video of the mismatched drag race by clicking the play button below.



Via:http://mustangsdaily.com



Video: 1966 Shelby GT350 vs Microcar drag race

Sunday, April 14, 2013

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We’ve showed you some pretty spectacular bumper-dragging, fender-crunching, frame-smashingwheelstands before, but this latest one takes the cake as perhaps the most impressive ever. The feat was performed by Jere Etheridge in his twin-turbo 2000 Ford Mustang, who was competing at the “Lights Out 4″ drag race at the South Georgia Motorsports Park this past weekend. The run seemed to start smooth enough, with Etheridge launching cleanly off the line. Partially down the track, however, the nose starts to lift. For a brief second the front tires come back to the pavement, but they quickly bounce back up into a full-blown wheelstand. Amazingly, with the front tires off the ground, the Mustang generats enough lift to get all four tires up into the air. At this point most people are thinking that the run probably won’t end well, but somehow the Mustang manages to land back on all four wheels, albeit in the opposing lane. Thankfully no one is hurt, and it looks like Etheridge’s Mustang will live to see another drag race.


Want to see the incredible wheelstand for yourself? We’ve got not one but two videos for you! Just click the play button below and enjoy.


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Via:http://mustangsdaily.com



Video: The craziest Ford Mustang wheelstand you’ve ever seen

Friday, April 12, 2013

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The #61 Roush Performance Mustang Boss 302R kicked off the 2013 Grand-Am season in style with avictory at Daytona Speedway last month, and now they are hoping to follow that up with another strong finish at this weekend’s race in Austin, TX. This will be the first time that the series will race on the new Circuit of the Americas track built specifically for the Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix, so all of the teams will be on a level playing field when it comes to knowing the layout of the 3.4 mile, 20-turn road course.


Roush is getting a head start on the competition, though, and is already in Austin getting a feel for the track.  Jack Roush Jr. has even taken the No. 61 Boss 302R out for a few quick practice laps, and Roush was kind enough to put the footage online for the viewing enjoyment of Mustang race fans.


You can watch the No. 61 Roush Boss 302R do two laps of the Circuit of the Americas below, or tune into SPEED TV on March 9th at 4:00 pm EST to watch the race. Watch Video! Click NEXT!



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Via:http://mustangsdaily.com



Video: Watch the #61 Roush Mustang Boss 302R lap Austin’s Circuit of the Americas

Monday, April 8, 2013

1962 Sarkes Tarzian Special

1962 Sarkes Tarzian Special

Rounds Rocket among vintage Indy cars highlighting Milhous auction

This car has been restored and turned into a sinister racket! Fast, good aerodynamics, superior

This is Sarkes Tarzian Special Edition


One of the highlights of the Milhous brothers’ collection in Boca Raton, Florida, the Rounds Rocket was initially conceived of by Nathan Rounds, a mysterious Los Angeles resident who claimed to have ties to Howard Hughes. In the late 1940s, he approached Lujie Lesovsky to build the mid-engine roadster, the first mid-engine rear-drive Indy roadster ever constructed, but his plans consisted of a sketch that ended just behind the cockpit; he left Lesovsky and master metalcrafter Emil Diedt to finish off the car, using a 270-cu.in. Meyer-Drake dual overhead-camshaft Offenhauser four-cylinder and two-speed manual transmission. They completed it in time for rookie Bill Taylor to attempt to qualify for the race in 1949. Sam Hanks and Bill Vukovich tried again in 1950, but none of the three succeeded, due to low speeds and a half-shaft failure. With the money being poured into the car, rumors swirled that Hughes was financing the car through Rounds, though the rumors were never confirmed. Put into storage in Beverly Hills after its second attempt, it didn’t re-emerge until Bill Harrah bought it nearly 20 years later. Following a restoration in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it appeared at the 1993 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance; the Milhous brothers added it to their collection five years later. RM, which will be conducting the auction of the Milhous brothers’ collection, estimates that it will sell for $250,000 to $350,000.Via: hemmings.com



Illustrating the radicalness of a mid-engine Indy roadster is another offering from the Milhous brothers collection, the Russell Snowberger-built Automobile Shippers Special. Unlike the Rounds Rocket, the Automobile Shippers Special placed the 270-cu.in. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser in the conventional position ahead of the driver to actually qualify at Indy in 1946 (21st), 1947 (5th), 1949 (8th), and 1950 (22nd). For those successes, however, the car never finished the race: A broken pinion shaft sidelined it in 1946, it crashed out in 1947 and 1949, and a failed universal joint took it out of the race in 1950. Like the Rounds Rocket, it was treated to a restoration by Bob Smith Coachworks of Gainesville, Texas, and joined the Milhous collection in the late 1990s. RM has estimated that it will sell for $175,000 to $250,000.Via: hemmings.com



Had the Rounds Rocket succeeded, it may have ultimately influenced Indy roadsters to go mid-engine much sooner than they did, yet the pattern for a successful Indy competitor evolved along a different path, resulting in cars like the Sarkes Tarzian Special, another front-engine, Meyer-Drake Offenhauser-powered, Lesovsky-built car. Commissioned in 1962 by Elmer and Mari George, Lesovsky built it in the predominant style of the day with an offset driveline. Elmer George then used it to qualify 17th for the 1962 Indy 500 (dropping out with a seized engine) and 28th for the 1963 Indy 500 (retiring after just 12 laps). Treated to a John Hajduk restoration in the early 1990s, it too joined the Milhous collection in 1998. RM has estimated that it will sell for $150,000 to $250,000.


Along with these three will be one more Indy car, a 1984 March Cosworth 84C driven by Teo Fabi, estimated to sell for $90,000 to $130,000. Via: hemmings.com



1962 Sarkes Tarzian Special

Monday, March 25, 2013

The truth

Why do men di.e first?misc-true-story-realistic-l2

This is a question that has gone unanswered for centuries, but, now we know. It requires a bit of explanation.

If you put a woman on a pedestal and try to protect her from the rat race, you’re a male chauvinist.


If you stay home and do the housework, you’re a pansy.


If you work too hard, there’s never any time for her.


If you don’t work enough, you’re a good-for-nothing bum.


If she has a boring repetitive job with low pay, this is exploitation. If you have a boring repetitive job with low pay, you should get off your lazy behind and find something better.


If you get a promotion ahead of her, that is favoritism. If she gets a job ahead of you, its equal opportunity.

If you mention how nice she looks, its sexual harassment. If you keep quiet, its male indifference.


If you cry, you’re a wimp. If you don’t, you’re an insensitive bastard.


If you make a decision without consulting her, you’re a chauvinist. If she makes a decision without consulting you, she’s a liberated woman.


If you ask her to do something she doesn’t enjoy, that’s domi.nation. If SHE asks you, it’s a favor.


If you appreciate the fem.ale form and se.xy underwear, you’re a pervert. If you don’t, you’re g.ay.

If you like a woman to shave her legs and keep in shape, you’re sexist. If you don’t, you’re unromantic.


If you try to keep yourself in shape, you’re vain. If you don’t, you’re a slob.


If you buy her flowers, you’re after something. If you don’t, you’re not thoughtful.


If you’re proud of your achievements, you’re full of yourself. If you don’t, you’re not ambitious.


If she has a headache, she’s tired. If you have a headache, you don’t love her anymore.


If you want it too often, you’re oversexed. If you don’t, there must be someone else.

Why do men d.ie first?

Because they F**KING want to!



The truth

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Making of Ferrari Engine

Making of Ferrari EngineMaking of Ferrari Engine. Ferrari SpA is an Italian sports car manufacturer in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before going into production of street legal vehicles Ferrari SpA in 1947. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in the race, especially in Formula One, where he had great success.


Enzo Ferrari never intended to produce road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari (literally “Ferrari Stable” and generally used to mean “Team Ferrari”, it is correctly pronounced [skuderi ː a]) in 1928 as sponsor for amateur drivers in Modena resident. Ferrari prepare and successfully ran various drivers in Alfa Romeo and 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to their racing department head.


1941 Alfa Romeo by the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers “seized the war effort. Enzo Ferrari’s division was small enough to be unaffected. Because he was by treaty banned from racing for four years, the Scuderia briefly Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, produced ostensibly machine tools and accessories aircraft. Even SEFAC (Enzo Ferrari Scuderia Auto Corse) is known, has Ferrari produce in fact a race car, the Tipo 815, in the non-competition period was. It is the first actual Ferrari (it debuted at the Mille Miglia 1940), but because of World War II it saw little competition. In 1943 the Ferrari factory moved to Maranello, where it has since remained. The factory was bombed by the Allies in 1944, rebuilt in 1946, After the war, and included a plant for passenger car production line. Until Il Commendatore’s death, this would be a little more than a source of funding for his racing operations.


The first Ferrari road car was driven by a 1947 125 S 1.5 liter V12 engine, Ferrari Enzo reluctantly built and sold his cars to Scuderia Ferrari finance.


In 1988 led the launch of the Ferrari Enzo Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year, and probably one of the most famous supercars of all time. From 2002 to 2004, Ferrari Enzo, his fastest model at the time, in honor of company founder Enzo Ferrari. It was only the wealthiest car enthusiasts limited, but, like any cost $ 1,800,000 pieces.


Ferrari Engine


On 17 May 2009 in Maranello, Italy, a 1957 250 Testa Rossa (TR) was auctioned by RM Auctions and Sotheby’s for $ 12,100,000 – a world record in that time, for the most expensive car ever to be sold at auction. This balance is now of a Bugatti Atlantic that sells instead of $ 28,000,000.


Earliest Ferrari cars engines by Gioacchino Colombo, who had formerly designed Alfa Romeos for Enzo Ferrari. This V12 engines ranged from the tiny 1.5 L (1497 cc) unit equipped, the 125S to the 3.3 L (3285 cc) unit in 1966 275th


Making of Ferrari Engine


Making of Ferrari Engine. Enzo Ferrari had long admired the V12 engines from Packard, Auto Union and Alfa Romeo (where he employed a long time), but his first car, the 1940 Auto Avio Costruzione 815, a Fiat used straight-8. It was only natural to be that its first indigenous engine was a V12, and the same basic design would be many years along in development had long after the original designer of Colombo Aurelio Lampredi the company was replaced as the motor marquee designers. Although Lampredi engines were a real force for the company, it was Colombo-V12, which would be the primary motivation for the consumer goods companies through the 1950s and 1960s.


Video Step by step Making of Ferrari Engine



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Making of Ferrari Engine

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