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Hey guys, don't ever forget Dean Lowrey, he was one hell of a fellow and on he cuttin edge of making VWs fast, he and Gene Berg were connected in some way and Dean was involved in the Empi Inch Pincher. Deano's Dyno Soars on Speedway In Tucson. He was a quality man and it's a shame he's passed. ...

I suppose you know that engine was originally installed in Buick Specials, and could be had with a 4 bbl carb I believe.

Oldsmobile also had a version of the 215 cubic inch V8, but it used better heads with 4 extra head bolts per side. That engine also came in a Turbo Charged model called the ...

I've been a damn mechanic for 40 years, I thought I was over machinery. Nothing can kill a passion for something like making your living workin on it. I used to love cars, not anymore. I raced cars for decades, finally got wore out on it. Then I bought a bike I'd always admired, almost by acciden...

@osufrdave I saw your comment and thought I had posted it. I've said it many times, "Best bike ever built, period". They can have my 91 bumble beemer when they pry it out of my cold dead hands, R/100/GS, airheads forever. 117K miles and still runnin like a clock. Doged, throwed up wet, treated ...

My first big meet was the 69 Nationals, the year I graduated high school. I'd wait every month for Car Craft and Hot Rod, and read about all the big names. So in 69 I drove up to Indy for the biggest show in drag racing, the Nationals. The sound of it still brings chills to me, The Nationals, it ...

The way to handle the bald headed dude is ease up behind him and kidney punch the asshole. That'll put him on his knees so fast he won't know what hit him. Once he's kneeling you can kick the shit out of him. Fuckin bullys always rub me the wrong way, I always wanna kick their ass, which ironica...

I like the Burg better with the new configuration, it was kinda too small for my taste. Now I rank it right up there with Tri-state for a nice facility and puttin on good races. I ran a fun fest, it was about 6 years ago and rainy drizzly all weekend. the track was slimy and seemed so small. I m...

Roll bar padding is a good thing. Steel pipe with inches of your cranium isn't. I've seen a knocked out stock car driver's car go wild, looping and spinning and ultimately didn't hit anything, but it was one of the scareiest things I've ever seen.

That is just too funny.

The Pantera and Mangusta was a piece of shit, handled like shit and not very fast.

Oh man I loved it when you blew past that guy under braking, what squids. LOL You are a rider my friend. I to "own" sportbikers on my old R/100/GS, gimme some twistys and I'll leave um like they're teathered to stump. I just love my old GS, I'm not real sold on the Telelever, I have an R1100R wit...

Wonder if anyone has a video of the security thugs beating the hell out of that old man in the race car trailer. I'd pay good money to have it.

@Trulyloyale I want some of what you're smoking bro. My 91 GS has 117 thousand miles on it, I doubt you can find a half dozen ducati that have that many miles added togeather. I've ridden a Bimota Mantra and a Duck Multi-strada, I wouldn't trade my 20 year old bike for either. I like to get ...

@TheGMFlex we're all in the same boat my friend. The problem isn't the people, it's the governments. We've lost control of our's and big business bought it . I'm not sure what you do about that with what little we have to choose from at election time. I like to think our people have been good f...

@Luvmypets123 When one leaves another comes needing love, and we need them. A friend who's not a cat person now has Lucky, the damndest loud mouth cat you ever saw. He has a minpin and a another little dog to loll around with and talks to you when you arrive. He now sleeps with mom and dad and a...

I'd like to know why they call it a dual mass flywheel. In my opinion it should be called a dampened flywheel, and I think it's a piece of expensive shit from this mechanic's point of view.

Everyone gets a souvenour, some imbedded deeper then others.

At the nationals I used to sit between the bridge and the stands, a bit behind the line. I liked watchin the launches and I also liked being behind the line of fire so to speak. At the time there were no stands there and you could pull up a piece of ground and sit down. things changed some in th...

@outcastbuggy How in God's name can you get 70K in a sand buggy? I was probably building buggys before you were born, and I can't in my wildest dreams figure where I'd put all that gold plating. LOL IN Tucson we made a kit to install a 215 aluminum Olds engine on a VW transaxle, and put a bunch...

I also own an airhead GS, R/100, and I feel so fortunate to have it. I'm in the US and very few were imported, I have the "bumblebeemer" yellow and black version, 91 I think, hell I forget. I don't believe they make a better riding motorcycle. I just love the thing. I ride mine in the winter a...

Best damn bike ever produced right there. I'd like more brakes and more power, but I ride my old GS and let the new bike lanquish. Being a mechanic I never thought I'd fall in love with a damn machine, but me and my BMW are gonna spend the rest of our lives togeather....well mine anyway. 117,000 ...

The "choke" is not a choke at all, it simply raises the idle. You can accomplish the same thing by just crackin the throttle. Twistin the throttle before starting is a complete waste of wrist motion, take my word for it, there are no accelerator pumps on the throttle bodys. My theory on the too ...

I grew up next to the track Charging Charlie started out from. He battled Frank Kimmel's dad every weekend. Charlie did testing for Dale Earnhardt, and Charlie is one hell of a driver. I saw this and it made me feel ill, thank goodness they weren't killed. I used to marvel at Charlie and how so ...

I've always wanted to turbo a damn flathead six for some unknown reason I don't even understand. I have a prestine old 40 Pontiac businessman's coupe, and it's been on my mind a lot lately. Your old Stovebolt is shittin and gittin, good work fellows, respect.

Lord have mercy I just fell in love. ON the last hell yeah it looks like a glimpse of Lacy J Dalton sittin there,

I worked on launch control quite a bit, but I had to train my right foot and butt. I guess a twin turbo and tons of power could be downright inpossible to control using throttle only. Kinda like some two stroke dirt bikes, I don't care how little throttle yer giving it, when it's on the pipe it w...

you go kid, put an ass whuppin on that asshole.

I had a muslim brother in law, he was the nicest person you'd ever want to meet. These guys remind me of him, I never saw Merdad get riled, always a gentleman. But you just knew if he was in a situation like that he'd have gone through them like a buzz saw. Gangs are ill prepared to fight in nu...

It's a nice piece of work but I don't seen any advantage in the design,

He did a hell of a job keeping it on line, I'm impressed.

I flew my old BMW GS spankin a kid on a Buell, I didn't expect it either, which made it a hell of a pucker moment. It was late afternoon on a hunk of infamiliar road, shadows cut up the long straight sight lines and i didn't notice it stair stepped a couple of time and it fell away down hill. Th...

With friends like that you don't need body guards.

Snoop, yer a fuckin dog, a mongrel dog, the best kinda dog, not a purebred, he's a high bread, and it takes dough to make bread. Goddamn crazy nigger has a good heart under that facade.

@guglielmo71 Smiley drilled straight onto the wall, head on damn near. This wreck is much diferent, he hits high on the fence and breaks to pieces. Smiley's car disintragated, him too. But yes you are right, cars, and tracks, are safer now. I'm doubt todays cars would withstand what Smiley had h...

The only way you could make this video worse is if you taped over the lens. You wouldn't pick three worse angles to video a race from. I wonder if the KTM was the one I heard on the rev limiter, the way it suddenly dropped back then maintained it's distance makes me think it was. I don't thinnk t...

Does this have some sort of launch control? It seems like it dogged down a bit off the line, then just exploded down the track in a blaze of bent light waves.

Does it launch pig rich, then the nox comes on or something? It looks like it could have tolerated a little more power right at first, ...

@Bigbriansc It's a fucking miracle bike and yer doggin it. If he can wring 170+ hp out of that V-Max with a pos Holley shoebox carb on it .......well frankly I'm suprised it runs at all. He has the foundation, if he gets a proper fueling system on it she may wake right up. A lotta work went in...

@9secondsflat Numbers are one thing, but it's the curve of those numbers that tell the tale. It's hard to beat the immediate surge a blower gives you. A way to turn it off when you aren't leaning on it would be the icing on the cake. Toyota used a clutch like an air-conditioner on a car with a in...

Never heard of him before, which bothers me. Frank sounds like he had a heck of a life and was a heck of a racer. We don't hear much about other countrys in America. Hell they barely show F1 racing here. At least he lived a long life, and got to rest on his laurals some. I hate it when so many st...

It seems like Fangio had Sterling beaten mentally. It's like Fangio was Sterling's hero and he was content to finish second to him. If he'd hated Fangio's guts I have to believe the outcomes may have varied more. They obviously ran at very similar speeds with Sterling glued to his tail. But in t...

@MotorsportUK2009 Racing is racing, the very highest cuttin edge racing is the least exciting to watch. And if you don't think those cars can't be made to handle you have another think coming. They weigh about 3500 pounds, and when you put 800hp in them they go real damn good. A NASCAR antique ...

It's hard to fathom racing on a course like that, there is no saftey at all. He has no belt on, the helmet is just a scoupe to pick up the brains with, and there are no saftey workers within miles at times. Yet they raced, and having raced I'm familiar with feeling immune to the dangers. Onc...

I hope she cooks better then she dances.

@spiderbyte87 Dumbass, put your monitor on it's side. LOL

How many welfare checks does it take to build one...not counting stolen parts.

Vehicles with a narrow wind cheating design are the future, and this looks awfully intresting being I love motorcycles. If it leans into the corners all the better.