A MAN who collects DeLorean cars has transformed the classic Back To The Future vehicles into a monster truck, a limousine, a hovercraft, a convertible and a Time Machine Replica. Rich Weissensel, a software engineer, is fanatic about the two-door sports car and owns five custom creations – including a stretched DeLorean Limousine – and three stock DeLoreans. The 50-year-old has re-modeled the stainless-steel shape of the iconic cars into bizarre and brilliant automotive creations in an ongoing, 14-year series of projects. The projects started after Rich met the car’s founder John DeLorean at the Cleveland DeLorean Car Show in 2000 and showed him some of his ideas and sketches. Rich from Chicago, Illinois, built a custom hovercraft using the stainless steel panels of the DeLorean and a hovercraft cushion which allows the DeLorean to float over any surface.
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From Madonna to Miley Cyrus, from Titanic to Transformers, American entertainment culture has been rolling all over the world for decades.
Now, another uniquely American phenomenon with roots in the rural U.S. is rumbling across international boundaries on giant wheels: monster trucks.
“We’re monster trucking the world,” said Kenneth Feld, CEO of Feld Entertainment, the company that owns the giant vehicles and the trademark Monster Jam events. “We’re building the business globally. It’s got a lot of traction.” … More
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Where They Raced: Speed Demons in the City of Angels tells the story of a pre-gridlocked Los Angeles. A time when it was ripe with orange groves, movie stars, year-round sun and more auto racing and innovation than anywhere else in America. This documentary film uncovers the forgotten history with lost archival films, hundreds of vintage photos, and revealing interviews.
Hosted by Harold Osmer who literally wrote the book and directed by Harry Pallenberg (Shotgun Freeway, Women in Boxes and California’s Gold), Where They Raced reunites the ghost tracks of Los Angeles with the cars that raced them and gets the families and experts to tell the tales that give these fading memories a victory lap.
FEATURING:
Lakes, Parks & Rods with Wally’s son on the Pomona Drag • A look at all 3 boardtracks in Los Angeles, we had the Nations first, the best & the fastest • Vic Edelbrock Jr. brings Roger Ward’s V8-60 back to Gilmore • The ultimate barn find: a Peugeot that influenced Miller, Offy and decades of racing technology • Ed Winfield’s #1 Ford is reunited with the remains of Legion Ascot to take a lap 85 years later • Join Mickey Thompson’s son & 1st wife for a 1/4 mile walk down memory lane • Eddie Pullen’s son, a ‘13 Fiat & a ‘11 National relive the Santa Monica Road Races•Greg Sharp at NHRA•Leslie Kendall at the Petersen • 414 mph Land Speed Record holder Charles Nearburg • We’ll talk to JC Agajanian Jr. at Turkey Night • Huell Howser sees something “Amazing” at the Corona Circle….
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Quick compilation of clips showing some of the build and first firing of the FIAT S76 land speed record car in 100 years. At over 28 litres this was the biggest of the pre WW1 monsters (and the biggest car engine ever built) – engine design changed a lot thereafter. The proper film will cover the history of this exciting period and tell the amazing story of its rebirth after 100 years.
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