Tag: Patrick Rall

I love vintage automotive ads and I feature a great many of them for Throwback Thursday, but this week’s old school commercial for the 1969 Pontiac Firebird is very likely one of the strangest new car ads I’ve seen. Evidently (according to the commercial), the introduction of the redesigned 1969 Firebird caused such a significant […] More »

This week’s Dyno Blast video features what might just be the baddest 4th gen Chevrolet Camaro ever with enough rear wheel horsepower to literally blow apart the rear tires on the dyno. The details on this twin turbocharged monster are limited, but the details explain that this Camaro was built to run the Texas Mile […] More »

This week’s Burnout video features a 4th gen Chevrolet Camaro SS taking part in a burnout contest at RPM Powersports in Omaha, Nebraska. We don’t know anything about the Camaro in question, but based on the sound of the engine and the ease with which is turns the rear tires into little bits and a […] More »

This video starts off by showing a 2009 Ford F-350 Super Duty getting beat in a street race by a built Chevrolet Silverado 1500. And it ends with a second race after the F-350 has added some very minor modifications. In the first race, the Silverado wins by a fair margin thanks to a built […] More »

This week’s Drag Race video features a 4th generation Camaro Z/28 packing a monster motor mated to the original transmission and rear end to blast down the quarter mile in the high 10 second range. The details on this Camaro build are a bit sketchy, but in reading through the comments it appears that this […] More »

The 1980s were an awesomely tacky times whether you are talking about fashion, music or advertising and today’s Throwback video features a 1984 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta commercial that just screams ’80s. From the ultra-crude computer technology to the absurdly long socks and skirt of the actress to the emphatic music playing in the background, this […] More »

This week’s Dyno Blast takes a look at a 4th generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Convertible on a mobile dyno at the 2012 LS Fest. This is a typical dyno run for a big show, with the driver quickly getting through the gears and making a dyno blast as quickly as possible with this LS1 […] More »