Another of the reasons I subscribe to your channel and not other similar ones, you care enough to do the research and present the facts. and the rare occasion you've been wrong, you said so and provided a correction. We all learn that way.
Fantastic video !! My good friend Bryce Bell, who sadly is no longer with us, was a passenger on the Gimli Glider. He was the first down the emergency slide at the rear of the plane. Since the nose gear was sheared off, the tail was about 20ft higher than normal. When he got to the end of the slide there was about a 12ft free fall to the tarmac. So he tried catching all the others who followed him. He can be seen on the Mayday program documenting this flight. RIP Bryce.
It’s only annoying in the fact that it has become people’s default reality. I think my only option ever will be to continue on the path of being authentic and authoritative on the subjects I post stuff about. Thanks for watching! (This message was poorly typed with my own thumbs)
Brian, You just keep resetting your own bar higher! About the Smirnoff car - Why did the driver say the dragster left him breathless? A great story here: Smirnoff was an old vodka brand at a time when few Americans drank vodka. What we now call “brown liquors” such as scotch, bourbon, and blends were the only sellers. A brilliant ad campaign launched Smirnoff Vodka to huge sales. You see, brown liquors have a very distinctive odor, so if you drank whiskey you’d have lousy bad breath. Not romantic. Vodka is just alcohol and water so its odor evaporates quickly, leaving no telltale bad breath. So Smirnoff tried to capitalize on this, but they couldn’t advertise “It doesn’t give you stinky breath!”. Instead, their slogan was “it will leave you breathless.” Those ads, with photos of beautiful models, ran in Playboy magazine for decades. Clever!
I recall seeing singer/actress Julie London, a favorite of mine, in the print ads. A quick search showed future Catwomen Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt, along with Zsa Zsa Gabor, and the supermodel of that era, Suzy Parker also were in the ad campaign. Quite a lineup there. More oddly, there were advertisements with men like Woody Allen, Wally Cox, Groucho Marx and Benny Goodman. A long-lasting slogan for Smirnoff that probably steered a lot of secret day drinkers to vodka.
During Driver’s Ed practice in the early 80s, we would do neutral drops in the old Forest Service AMCs at a turn in the course our instructor couldn’t see. Predictably, one of the guys in my car over-did it and scattered parts on the ground. I stick to manual transmissions these days
Another great video Brian! Interesting tib bid. The rock band Mr. Big used that train wreck picture on the front of their "Lean Into It" album that had the #1 hit "To be with You".
This is why I'm so thankful to have had a dad that never threw away his old magazines. All the Drag Racing USAs, Photo Greats, Annuals, SuperStocks, Petersen's Drag Racing, etc... I've read these things from cover to cover since I was a kid & still have them, now thankfully, in protective sleeves. I still get them out a few times a year & find myself re-reading them & drooling over the pictures & captions by or near them. I tried to find a way to contact you after your Al Vanderwoude episode because I had drawn the roofless Dart just a few months ago & wanted to share it with you. Hopefully you'll catch a peek at it one day. Thank you so much for all you do. Short form or long form videos, doesn't matter...it's all fantastic stuff. I would love to hear one about The Surfers, Wild Willy Borsch, & one about Billy "the kid" Stepp one day (and sooooo many more legends of the sport)
Yes, David and I have done drag week together for about a decade. I also do all the NHRA races on television and work on the in-venue side as well. Thanks for checking this out!!
Such a cool video Brian, thanks for sharing this! Also, today I learned (TIL) about Darryl Greenamyer. That photo of the plane and FED should be turned into a 1/25 scale model kit. Cheers, Paul
Brian, when I saw this video in my que I thought for sure you would have the picture of the Magic Muffler Fiat blown fuel altered just off the line with the entire bottom end (crank, pistons and rods) exiting straight down. Talk about running over your short block!😂 Look it up🤗
The fact that you are so good that people think it is AI is pretty impressive. Also kinda sad that people can’t tell the difference. I could easily see your episodes being on a TV station, high quality to say the least. We appreciate your effort.
Always enjoyable. And thank goodness not AI! One small (tiny) point - the tiny car on the back of the Berliet truck is a Vespa 400, a micro car made in France by the Italian scooter company.
My dad and I explored the AEP recreation land a lot in the late 90s-early 00s. I remember seeing Big Muskie shortly before it was dismantled and it was simply awe inspiring. There used to be a lot of old and abandoned mining equipment out there but much of it has been vandalized or removed
Great Video Brian! I really respect your efforts to get the details correct . Its scenes that no one wants to be a part of but everyone likes to see! Great work more would be great
Hilarious how the Montparnasse derailment was immediately followed up by the Gimli Glider... it's as if you knew I'd be watching the video! I'm an avid railway and racing enthusiast from the Edmonton area. Cheers from Canada!
Love your videos. Daryl Greenemyer also set jet high and low altitude speed records with an F104 "widowmaker" he built up from a whole bunch of surplus parts.
WOW!!! Incredible video Brian!!...I have seen some of these pictures and only you are able to track the back story to these vintage and seemingly unknown or misidentified pictures...Thank you for the awesome video my friend!!..
Truly different, Brian, but informative & entertaining as always. You keep knocking them out of the park and we're always hungry for more. Thank you for all of the hours you put into your videos.
Im pre-posting this comment. This is going to be the best Lohnes drop yet...for those of us who grew up seeing photos like these in the rags each month. Mouth watering...
Great work on the video and thank you for shedding light on the stories behind these pictures. All the stories were awesome and my favorite story/picture was the Jay Batenfield truck crashing into a Cadillac. What a way to prove a point.
wow...great one Brian..!...im from L.I. N.Y....so the plane on the southern state pkwy...was....WILD...!...born in 59...i "never" heard or knew about this..untill...NOW....!..unreal...!..!..great history lesson...thanks again..!
Random additional trivia... 12:30 The shot of the wrecked train made the cover of "Lean Into It", an album by the American hard rock band, Mr. Big... Thanks for the video.
I look forward to these. My Dad was a mechanic, I'm a retired welder, and race cars of some sort or another have always been in my life. The easy to follow history and the fantastic photos can't be beat. Thanks for doing the work to present these videos. 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😎
Wow those are some good ones. We see a lot of photos and wonder what was going on. On those giant drag lines some people in my family seen one walk across the sipsey River in Alabama. I think it was in the early 90s it belonged to Drummond coal company. Always fun and have a wonderful day 🙏
Kimlely air force basie turned into Kimlely drag strip there was a little road corse near the strip thankfully they were on a intermission or lunch when the kimley Crider landed check out the history on Cayuga drag way brian its great track still around
16:23 was big musky built by "Marion power shovel" also known as "dresser industries" my pops worked assembling those at the Marion power shovel, which was Marion steam shovel when the company first opened in what I believe was the late 1890's , I do know my dad helped to assemble the drag lines that dug the panama canal and I believe big musky, I know there shovels were so big they couldn't even be fully assembled in the huge shop that was in our town Marion Ohio where there were 3 Marion power shovel plants, which later became dresser industries in the 80's, I have some cupboards, shelves, big bolt organizers, from the there, and my pops original tool box he started with there in the 60's, my grandpa was also a electrician there and the union rep for his plant, I love all this history of everything mechanical, you do such a awesome job of researching it all, thanks for posting
9:03 😲😱Not the sort of Horsepower upgrade Ford customers had in mind. That is whats left of a Pratt & Whitney R-2000 14 cylinder 2 row radial. Yes that's 2000 cubic inch displacement (one cylinder is equal to one whole cylinder bank of the 289 that's in that car) and 1,450HP. The 1,500 lb dry weight really testing the front suspension. Judging by the prop and nose case completely missing that engine bought in hard before going on its gymnastic tour of the car yard. God speed to all the victims of that day and I hadn't heard of this air accident until now. 15:41 Thanks for mentioning Greenameyer and the Unlimited air racing scene. That machine (Pitty that photo didn't show case it with the enormous cut down Lockheed P-3 Orion propeller blades) has a long and steady progression to its fame in air racing. This was your most jaw dropping and informataining video yet.
Another fascinating video. Thanks! An interesting detail of the Pocono over/under wreck: the windshield that has separated from the flying car is a stock replacement laminated safety glass one as mandated by the NASCAR rulebook. Not until the 1990s did the rules change to allow lexan replacements to be used. Requiring factory glass was one way to keep the race cars closer to the stock cars they were based on. If you do another video like this, how about the photo of the crankshaft exiting the bottom of a fuel altered?
In the late 70's Darryl Greenamyer built a custom Lockheed F-104 from parts he'd collected over the years. It set a low-altitude speed record (988 mph) that still stands. I was an Air Force mechanic at the time and saved a newspaper clipping about the record.
At 19:20 the picture of the flying car attached to the hot air balloon begs the question, was this stunt the impetus for the famed scene in the WKRP episode where they dropped frozen turkeys from a helicopter for their Thanksgiving Day giveaway? Les Nessman's description of the resulting carnage from the dropped frozen turkeys was priceless. To me it remains one of the funniest scenes in TV comedy history. "Oh my God they are turkeys, Oh the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement." WKRP was one of the funniest sitcoms ever shown on Television or at least to my post adolescent mind at that time.
I bet if i gave the most obscure image of a vehicle that i have You'll probably give me more info and history than most history books Good job with the video
Chrysler used to have a commercial in the late 50's or early 60's where a guy in a car has it floored and he's just shifting between reverse and drive, back and forth. Wheels spinning one way, and then the other, smoking and going nowhere. I guess the idea was to show how tough the 727 actualy was (and it was tough). Maybe that's what popularized the 'Neutral Drop'.
That’s as good a theory as anyone I’ve ever heard. I know a guy that worked at GM in the 1960s and his job was to take a big block Camaro and ram it from low gear to reverse at full throttle as many times as it took to break a turbo 400!
Another of the reasons I subscribe to your channel and not other similar ones, you care enough to do the research and present the facts.
and the rare occasion you've been wrong, you said so and provided a correction. We all learn that way.
I could stand alot more of these. Short,intresting & to the point. No fluff
Thanks Steve! Duly noted!
Long or short I love them All. Some could go on twice as long and still be holding my interest. Thank You for All of them.@@brianlohnes3079
Fantastic video !! My good friend Bryce Bell, who sadly is no longer with us, was a passenger on the Gimli Glider. He was the first down the emergency slide at the rear of the plane. Since the nose gear was sheared off, the tail was about 20ft higher than normal. When he got to the end of the slide there was about a 12ft free fall to the tarmac. So he tried catching all the others who followed him. He can be seen on the Mayday program documenting this flight. RIP Bryce.
"I'm not AI generated"..... sounds like something an AI generated thing would say! Is it annoying that people assume all the work you do is AI now?
It’s only annoying in the fact that it has become people’s default reality. I think my only option ever will be to continue on the path of being authentic and authoritative on the subjects I post stuff about.
Thanks for watching! (This message was poorly typed with my own thumbs)
Brian , can you find film of the process please ? kind regards
@brianlohnes3079 My thumbs typed this too.
Keep up the good work. T' hell with the downplayers...
AI is ruining yt
@@brianlohnes3079 Great reply! Real thumbs! 🙂
Lake Speed, it's his son, Lake Speed Jr, who has the channel The Motor Oil Geek and is the go to guy for all things motor oil.
Lake is a good friend. Awesome guy.
Agreed. Excellent channel.
Brian, You just keep resetting your own bar higher!
About the Smirnoff car - Why did the driver say the dragster left him breathless? A great story here: Smirnoff was an old vodka brand at a time when few Americans drank vodka. What we now call “brown liquors” such as scotch, bourbon, and blends were the only sellers. A brilliant ad campaign launched Smirnoff Vodka to huge sales. You see, brown liquors have a very distinctive odor, so if you drank whiskey you’d have lousy bad breath. Not romantic. Vodka is just alcohol and water so its odor evaporates quickly, leaving no telltale bad breath. So Smirnoff tried to capitalize on this, but they couldn’t advertise “It doesn’t give you stinky breath!”. Instead, their slogan was “it will leave you breathless.” Those ads, with photos of beautiful models, ran in Playboy magazine for decades. Clever!
This is an amazing addition to the story I never would have known!!!
I recall seeing singer/actress Julie London, a favorite of mine, in the print ads. A quick search showed future Catwomen Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt, along with Zsa Zsa Gabor, and the supermodel of that era, Suzy Parker also were in the ad campaign. Quite a lineup there. More oddly, there were advertisements with men like Woody Allen, Wally Cox, Groucho Marx and Benny Goodman. A long-lasting slogan for Smirnoff that probably steered a lot of secret day drinkers to vodka.
During Driver’s Ed practice in the early 80s, we would do neutral drops in the old Forest Service AMCs at a turn in the course our instructor couldn’t see. Predictably, one of the guys in my car over-did it and scattered parts on the ground. I stick to manual transmissions these days
Hahahahaha great story
Brian, of course we understand you're not employing AI. Your authenticity is why we're here. More power to ya, mate!
Agree 💯
Another great video Brian! Interesting tib bid. The rock band Mr. Big used that train wreck picture on the front of their "Lean Into It" album that had the #1 hit "To be with You".
This is why I'm so thankful to have had a dad that never threw away his old magazines. All the Drag Racing USAs, Photo Greats, Annuals, SuperStocks, Petersen's Drag Racing, etc... I've read these things from cover to cover since I was a kid & still have them, now thankfully, in protective sleeves. I still get them out a few times a year & find myself re-reading them & drooling over the pictures & captions by or near them. I tried to find a way to contact you after your Al Vanderwoude episode because I had drawn the roofless Dart just a few months ago & wanted to share it with you. Hopefully you'll catch a peek at it one day. Thank you so much for all you do. Short form or long form videos, doesn't matter...it's all fantastic stuff. I would love to hear one about The Surfers, Wild Willy Borsch, & one about Billy "the kid" Stepp one day (and sooooo many more legends of the sport)
Had to laugh at the FOR SALE sign in the rear window of the car at 11:00 mark. Thanks for the video.
"Runs good, has a couple parking lot dings. NO lowballers, I know what I got."
@@61rampy65 just testing the waters.
Best gearhead stories on youtube! Brian didn't you do a live commentary during Drag week with David frieburger ? Or I am confusing you with someone ?
Yes, David and I have done drag week together for about a decade. I also do all the NHRA races on television and work on the in-venue side as well. Thanks for checking this out!!
@@brianlohnes3079 Well, this explains a lot. Thanks for sharing!
Such a cool video Brian, thanks for sharing this! Also, today I learned (TIL) about Darryl Greenamyer. That photo of the plane and FED should be turned into a 1/25 scale model kit. Cheers, Paul
Another great video with unforgettable photos. Mankind has few limits with all things mechanical. Many thanks again.
Hello again, Brian. Can’t thank you enough for these mini docs. They are wonderful. I haven’t even watched this yet and I know it’s going to be great.
Brian this was great, some I knew and other were new to me. Once again another great video. Be blessed brother
Brian, when I saw this video in my que I thought for sure you would have the picture of the Magic Muffler Fiat blown fuel altered just off the line with the entire bottom end (crank, pistons and rods) exiting straight down. Talk about running over your short block!😂 Look it up🤗
Trust me, there will be kids of these. Highly familiar.
@@brianlohnes3079 somehow I knew you knew about that picture🤭🤗
Excellent subject matter, excellent delivery. Thank You Brian for another job well done.
Thanks Brian! Best 20ish minutes I spent today.
The fact that you are so good that people think it is AI is pretty impressive. Also kinda sad that people can’t tell the difference. I could easily see your episodes being on a TV station, high quality to say the least. We appreciate your effort.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you watching!
Always enjoyable. And thank goodness not AI! One small (tiny) point - the tiny car on the back of the Berliet truck is a Vespa 400, a micro car made in France by the Italian scooter company.
Gahhh!!! Thanks for this fix!!
@@brianlohnes3079 My best friend had numerous Goggomobils, and while I knew it wasn't a Goggo, I was thinking a Simca, or Fiat 500.
My dad and I explored the AEP recreation land a lot in the late 90s-early 00s. I remember seeing Big Muskie shortly before it was dismantled and it was simply awe inspiring. There used to be a lot of old and abandoned mining equipment out there but much of it has been vandalized or removed
Another great video, Thank you Brian.
Please more of this, i have lots of old pictures on my archives and always wanted to know the backstory of them.
Brian, you are simply amazing. GREAT stuff!! LOL We need to start a campaign to get your subscriber number up!
Great Video Brian! I really respect your efforts to get the details correct . Its scenes that no one wants to be a part of but everyone likes to see! Great work more would be great
Was part of a team raced at Gimly in 82,yr before that landing. Your AI voice just as informative at NHRA events
Hahahahahah
@@brianlohnes3079 Memory lanes just as fun as today's on track lanes, Thanks so much !!!
Never know what we are going to get from you but it's always interesting. Thank You for again making my day.
Hilarious how the Montparnasse derailment was immediately followed up by the Gimli Glider... it's as if you knew I'd be watching the video! I'm an avid railway and racing enthusiast from the Edmonton area. Cheers from Canada!
Love your videos. Daryl Greenemyer also set jet high and low altitude speed records with an F104 "widowmaker" he built up from a whole bunch of surplus parts.
WOW!!! Incredible video Brian!!...I have seen some of these pictures and only you are able to track the back story to these vintage and seemingly unknown or misidentified pictures...Thank you for the awesome video my friend!!..
Thanks for all your hard work. I truly appreciate it.
Early morning drop: the start of another great day
Trying to help those commuters out there!
This is pure gold thank you for sharing your knowledge and love for the sport we love!!!
Thanks for another amazing video, Brian. Keep em coming, my friend.
How utterly entertaining and fun .
You sir are a legend 👍
Not a robot,, or "AI". Thanks for the back stories of the past.
Truly different, Brian, but informative & entertaining as always. You keep knocking them out of the park and we're always hungry for more. Thank you for all of the hours you put into your videos.
Only seen the train image on a post card, and the GP car going into the drink.
Guess I need to spend more time......on the internet? Good show!
Awesome video Brian. I look forward to each one
Anxiously awaiting parts II, III, IV, V, VI, etc. Well done, as usual.
This was just plain awesome! Thanks.
Thank You for another collection of interesting facts Brian.
Best Wishes to You , Your Family and Friends !
Im pre-posting this comment.
This is going to be the best Lohnes drop yet...for those of us who grew up seeing photos like these in the rags each month. Mouth watering...
I love your subjects, and your one hell of a story teller!!! And a great drag racing announcer!!
This is exactly why I love your knowledge and this channel
Hey Brian, great segment, I have enjoyed your show on you-tube immensely. keep up the good work!
I love hearing the stories behind old photos thank you so much for your research!
Fantastic stuff! Go Brian, keep sharing and moving forward!
Fantastic video! Love it!
Great work on the video and thank you for shedding light on the stories behind these pictures. All the stories were awesome and my favorite story/picture was the Jay Batenfield truck crashing into a Cadillac. What a way to prove a point.
Awesome! Would love to see more like this.
This was awesome left me wanting more
Good quality videos and excellent narration. No stupid slang or idiotic music. Just clear facts and information. Thanks Brian.
Always giving us the back story. Great content.
Great stuff as always stewie
This is a FANTASTIC video!!
I love auto history/Trivia/Oddities like this and you, Sir do a FINE job at presentation!!
Thanks for the lesson!
I discovered neutral drops in high school in my rusty 69 GTO. It broke things.
Awesome good to know the background thanks!
This is great stuff ❤ finally some quality again. Subscribed!
Call me old fashioned, I really appreciate the lack of AI BS. Thank you for keeping it real!
I'd definitely be calling Hawkeye, Fisheye after that photograph!.
Great work like normal Brian.🙌🏻
Cool video. Thank you for your work to find the pics and tell the story 😉
wow...great one Brian..!...im from L.I. N.Y....so the plane on the southern state pkwy...was....WILD...!...born in 59...i "never" heard or knew about this..untill...NOW....!..unreal...!..!..great history lesson...thanks again..!
Random additional trivia...
12:30
The shot of the wrecked train made the cover of "Lean Into It", an album by the American hard rock band, Mr. Big...
Thanks for the video.
This freaking rules.
As always, fantastic.
Not bad,it kept me tuned in every second. Thank you.
This is a great place to learn some great stuff. Thanks Brian. Never a dull moment.
I look forward to these.
My Dad was a mechanic, I'm a retired welder, and race cars of some sort or another have always been in my life.
The easy to follow history and the fantastic photos can't be beat.
Thanks for doing the work to present these videos.
👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐😎
Awesome ! And now ya know ! I got that from somewhere... thanks for sharing 👍
Loved this! Definitely need more lol
Excellent presentation. Thank you. Some good stuff here.
Wow those are some good ones. We see a lot of photos and wonder what was going on. On those giant drag lines some people in my family seen one walk across the sipsey River in Alabama. I think it was in the early 90s it belonged to Drummond coal company. Always fun and have a wonderful day 🙏
outstanding! thanks Brian
The best AI on youtube :). Love your videos
Brian, the little car on the back of the big truck at 7:00 is a Vespa 400, not a Gogomobil. Great video!!!
More great stuff Brian!
The Big Muskie bucket is a short trip from exit 25 of I-77 in southern Ohio. There are plenty of signs.
Very good and interesting video! Thank Brian
Great work! That one about the plain crashing between Montreal and Edmonton is interesting, I’m from Edmonton
13:46 the gimli glider…..
Brian, I subscribed primarily due to your content but also because you don’t use an AI read script.
Kimlely air force basie turned into Kimlely drag strip there was a little road corse near the strip thankfully they were on a intermission or lunch when the kimley Crider landed check out the history on Cayuga drag way brian its great track still around
16:23 was big musky built by "Marion power shovel" also known as "dresser industries" my pops worked assembling those at the Marion power shovel, which was Marion steam shovel when the company first opened in what I believe was the late 1890's , I do know my dad helped to assemble the drag lines that dug the panama canal and I believe big musky, I know there shovels were so big they couldn't even be fully assembled in the huge shop that was in our town Marion Ohio where there were 3 Marion power shovel plants, which later became dresser industries in the 80's, I have some cupboards,
shelves, big bolt organizers, from the there, and my pops original tool box he started with there in the 60's, my grandpa was also a electrician there and the union rep for his plant, I love all this history of everything mechanical, you do such a awesome job of researching it all, thanks for posting
9:03 😲😱Not the sort of Horsepower upgrade Ford customers had in mind. That is whats left of a Pratt & Whitney R-2000 14 cylinder 2 row radial. Yes that's 2000 cubic inch displacement (one cylinder is equal to one whole cylinder bank of the 289 that's in that car) and 1,450HP. The 1,500 lb dry weight really testing the front suspension. Judging by the prop and nose case completely missing that engine bought in hard before going on its gymnastic tour of the car yard. God speed to all the victims of that day and I hadn't heard of this air accident until now. 15:41 Thanks for mentioning Greenameyer and the Unlimited air racing scene. That machine (Pitty that photo didn't show case it with the enormous cut down Lockheed P-3 Orion propeller blades) has a long and steady progression to its fame in air racing. This was your most jaw dropping and informataining video yet.
12:25, I wonder if this was the inspiration for the movie Silver streak?
14:05, happened on Feb 29th? Gives a new meaning to leap year huh?
Another fascinating video. Thanks!
An interesting detail of the Pocono over/under wreck: the windshield that has separated from the flying car is a stock replacement laminated safety glass one as mandated by the NASCAR rulebook. Not until the 1990s did the rules change to allow lexan replacements to be used. Requiring factory glass was one way to keep the race cars closer to the stock cars they were based on.
If you do another video like this, how about the photo of the crankshaft exiting the bottom of a fuel altered?
I was hoping to see the altered with the crankshaft, rods, and pistons laying on the track during a launch…… saved for another time…Thanks Brian..
How can anyone watching isn't hitting sub is beyond me. Thabks as always
I just did upon conclusion of this video.
In the late 70's Darryl Greenamyer built a custom Lockheed F-104 from parts he'd collected over the years. It set a low-altitude speed record (988 mph) that still stands. I was an Air Force mechanic at the time and saved a newspaper clipping about the record.
Thanks Brian. That is very interesting.
At 19:20 the picture of the flying car attached to the hot air balloon begs the question, was this stunt the impetus for the famed scene in the WKRP episode where they dropped frozen turkeys from a helicopter for their Thanksgiving Day giveaway? Les Nessman's description of the resulting carnage from the dropped frozen turkeys was priceless. To me it remains one of the funniest scenes in TV comedy history. "Oh my God they are turkeys, Oh the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement." WKRP was one of the funniest sitcoms ever shown on Television or at least to my post adolescent mind at that time.
Well that was something different, and I loved it!!!!
Your Holland tunnel story/photo gave me flashbacks to Caldecott. Similar tragedy. My family lived in Orinda at the time.
I bet if i gave the most obscure image of a vehicle that i have
You'll probably give me more info and history than most history books
Good job with the video
Hahaha - come at me, bro!! Haha
Thank you!
Great video Thanks 👍
The History Guy has a great video on that Gimly Glider.
Hes a great content creator. Hes right up there with Brian.
Agreed!
Chrysler used to have a commercial in the late 50's or early 60's where a guy in a car has it floored and he's just shifting between reverse and drive, back and forth. Wheels spinning one way, and then the other, smoking and going nowhere. I guess the idea was to show how tough the 727 actualy was (and it was tough). Maybe that's what popularized the 'Neutral Drop'.
That’s as good a theory as anyone I’ve ever heard. I know a guy that worked at GM in the 1960s and his job was to take a big block Camaro and ram it from low gear to reverse at full throttle as many times as it took to break a turbo 400!
@ Yeah, they were tough; C6 too.
Well done ... Sir well done..., 👍👍👍👍
Great stuff!