I would like to see more old pictures while he narrates one picture and some man talking is not going to do it for me

Not a Hemi its a 4 valve pentroof double overhead cam. It does not have hemispherical combustion chambers. Why does everyone make this mistake two totally different designs? Shows lack of knowledge and misinformation.

We gotta find this car. I'm honestly tempted to travel down to where it supposedly is myself.

Based FORD.

A good way to understand New York in the 70s and 80s is to read up on the punk and hardcore scene. He's not exaggerating, it was a war zone.

I got a 1 ton work truck in exchange for labor when I was a kid. It was a 59 GMC 1 ton with a 9 foot bed. It had a Pontiac 389 in it and it was an absolute beast! I went on get practical and let that amazing machine slip through my hands. 😖

The NR2101 is still registered, to Kermit Weeks, with the P&W 985 engine.

Brian, your videos are some of the best on Facebook if you are into drag racing. Thanks so much for not only the entertainment of watching them, the open the door to the past and early days of drag racing when it wasn't all about the $$$. Back them I remember sometimes 15 or 20 Pro Stock drivers who failed to make a 16 car show. The early years of Pro Stock were so exciting and filled with ingenuity and talent in building cars and engines.

As a former machinist, in the Aerospace industry when manufacturing here, in the U.S. was still "in" ,pride in workmanship, enginerring and design, were paramount. As a mechanic, I also care about the work product I put out. But, having worked most recently at a Ford Dealership, in the parts depr. I saw way too many engines and transmissions getting replaced due to failure. One of the failure points was in the timing system, due to a lack of a woodruff key on the crankshaft. This is 100 yr old technology, yet it is missing. GM and Chrysler have similar issues. Not to mention valves and lifters dropping at 30k miles. This is old tech. This is why I said what I said. Either, the auto industry is tanking the ICE automobile purposely, or we have a bunch of disinterested UAW workers bulding low quality vehicles.

is it a hemi or a ford ???

If only there wasn't the initial seemingly-obligatory and completely-nonsensical war propaganda, this might have been somewhat interesting. Instead, it is a total washout. No thanks.

So, hear me out: A four-screw design like those early patents, but with a diamond wheel arrangement between them. Basically a wheel on each side at the middle of the vehicle and a wheel at each end between the screws. The wheels would be either raised and lowered like aircraft landing gear and driven with electric or hydraulic motors, or use a Citroen-style hydropneumatic suspension system to raise and lower the wheels and use driveshafts and CV joints for the wheels. Should be the best of both worlds, having wheels when wheels are needed but retracting them when the screws are needed. I've built motorized model screw-propelled vehicles before, so needless to say I'm quite interested in their potential :) Just gotta find a creative layout to fix their inability to traverse solid ground!

My Dad retired from Cols Timken plant and I never knew they were involved, that’s super cool.

Awesome content thank you. 👌 Picture above @100mph: Bottom half of track, (darker section), weight either side of dead centre? = and its a long high speed slide/slo mo tailwag. Top track, a couple of 6 inch humptydoos? (& worse than tram tracks), = vehicle instantly spat offline, driver ejected missile style🚀Am I right? 🤔😉

Yeah there's no way You're Running a Boosted Engine on 80 Octane Gasoline.

I quick checked a forum called The H.A.M.B. , searched indoor drag racing, there was postings. There’s a lot of vintage car guys on there. Free to be a member.

He took the attitude of if the rule book said specifically you can’t do something then it was OK to do it. I suspect a bunch of the rules NASCAR have is because of him. It is only cheating if they catch you. If they don’t it is superior wrenching.

Great information. Thanks.

Sounds like a fuel supply issue.

if you use the term 'each' you dont need to add "apiece" is a redundancy.

Cus Ford was a NAZI!

I had a friend in the early 70's whose grandfather was a man I knew as "Tex Collins". He had that car and I always thought he created it. I was able to sit in it but, knew nothing else about it, Tex was larger than life to me, he had raced a Mustang bodied funny can that sported one of those engines. Behind his shop was an old White trash truck that also had that engine. His daily driver was a stagecoach bodied hot rod with a cowboy hat as an air cleaner. That's all I remember about him.

Roush had a version of the spintron in the late eighties. As a former employee of that time, I can confirm the use and similar reasons were used.

This is a very nice and interesting report but sadly the innovators did not get the mas contract this happened to a lot of small fabricators in WW2 were by their innovations and ideas went to someone else

Must of been loud as heck.

Two Hemis? That's just weird. Two 440s makes far more sense even if a little less power. By mid-1969 Chrysler had brought the 440 6-pack into production which would have provided some high rpm oomph over the single 4 bbl motor. Never mind. Someone figured out Hemis weren't good motors for combat vehicles unlike the 440 which had quite a long life in land yachts and RVs.

King of the World, Scott Anthony McCoy grandson of Austin McCoy I remember this drag car from the Frankie and Anette beach movie's !!!👑🌎👍👍👍😎🐺

I loved Lions drag strip in Long Beach.

Smokey Yunick and Penzoil. I remember in high school reading " ask Smokey " in poular science magazine.

big oil killed the hot vapor....

Hauling a jagtiger -- what a beast!

I heard that during the height of DeMayo's car theft ring, that his most common order was for Caprices and oddly enough Middle Easterners wanted Delta 88's but they had to have velour interior of course, because they were very offended by the fact that we made car seats from the hyde of their sacred cattle, so it became common for their chop shops to perform upholstery "downgrades" to velour since most of the Delta 88's at the time were sourcing seats from the same supplier as Cadillac and the majority were leather. Could be a big load of BS, I don't remember where I heard that. I'm a Mafia history fanatic, so I read a lot of Mafia related stuff..

That crazy Chrysler engine (30 cylinders) -- was deemed a reliable success, too. Chrysler simply re-purposed its existing straight six gas engine.

Bill Cheeseburger..

You will never see any footage of this vehicle going down the raceway. Not with aircraft engines.

Smokey was a real American innovator. His "Say Smokey" column was the first thing I went to in Popular Science magazine as a youngster interested in engines. He also had a very interesting article on leakdown testing for engines in that magazine, which was the first time I had ever heard of the idea. It gave you more info and was considered more accurate than compression tests. Great American

if your going to make a video about a hot rod hero, man you picked a good one.

Some pictures show the car with two 6 cylinder engines. But some other pictures show the car with two 8 cylinder engines. Feels like we are missing some details.

Why didn’t they make armoured landing craft out of them, they could have taken soldiers up the beach and kept them out of harms way. From ship to sea to sand...

The 4 wheel drive Vega, makes me think of TV Tommy Ivo!

Thank you for showing this. My late Dad drove one of the unarmored versions in Europe from July 44 to May 45.

I recall seeing this car (and motor) in Hot Rod Magazine when I was a kid.

Any one ever heard of Cliff Gottlob from Arkansas City Kansas ?

a couple of the pictures seem to show Hunter S. Thompson piloting the craft….

That Weasel was made by Studebaker in South Bend, Indiana.

Godd stuff!

Innovation has been missing in TFD and FC’s for a long time. Take the livery off them and try to tell them apart. I remember dual engine dragsters with 2 different motors, front motor, rear motor, and even 4 motor cars. This sport is like watching a boring NASCAR or F1 race with ZERO innovation. Bye Bye NHRA, it’s an old people sport.

Very interesting story! Thank you for sharing!

My chief mechanic was like Smoky; if the rules don’t say I can’t do something then I can do it. Way to go, Charlie.

useless . but interesting