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• Totally Radical Racing: Formula 1 and Rally in the 1980s [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 4 April 2013

  

  Although most motorsports historians like to wax poetic (or not-so-poetic) about the barnstorming between-the-World-Wars era, or the glamorous 1950s, the 1980s was a damn good period for racing in its own right. Advancements in design and engineering led to major advances in speed and safety, and increased manufacturer and sponsor involvement – not to mention improved and expanded TV coverage – increased awareness of the sport exponentially. Oh, and the fact that rule makers still gave manufacturers and constructors a long leash with regard to creativity certainly didn’t hurt.

  With this in mind, Finnish YouTuber Antti Kalhola made this video tribute to this remarkable decade. Yes, we wish there were clips from series besides Formula 1 and the World Rally Championship (namely Indy car and IMSA/Group C sports cars), but we’re guessing F1 and WRC were the only two series from which Antti had suitable footage to work. Besides, no one can begrudge him choosing a track from Jan Hammer (Specifically “Crockett’s Theme” from Miami Vice.). No one!

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• Deutsche Tourenwagen Musik: DTM Orchestra Gives America a Taste of Things to Come [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 28 March 2013

  

  In the last month-and-a-half or so, we’ve brought you a couple videos chronicling the German Touring Car Championship (DTM) through the years. The first was a tribute to the series’ Group A golden era of the late-1980s and early-1990s. The second video looked at the Class 1 era of the mid-‘90s, where the cars were arguably more technology-packed than any racecars seen before or since. Now, we bring you a video about today’s DTM – which is contested by silhouette cars patterned after the BMW M3, Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe and Audi RS5 – with an extra musical accompaniment.

  But this present-day DTM vid has some extra significance, for it was earlier this week that ITR (the sanctioning body for DTM), Grand-Am and IMSA (which, along with the American Le Mans Series, will join forces next year to form United SportsCar Racing) signed an agreement that will see the formation of a North American DTM series. The parties involved say the new championship will be open to DTM cars, GT500 class SuperGT cars (since it has also adapted DTM rules), and any new cars that will be built by American manufacturers (*cough*next gen Camaro, next gen Mustang and the rumored SRT ‘Cuda*cough*). Expect the series to kick off in 2015 or 2016, with both standalone events and during United SportsCar and Izod IndyCar Series weekends. Needless to say, we are counting the days, kids.

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• Peter Peter Hughes’ “My God Is An Angry God” Pairs Juan Manuel Fangio with…a Saab 900 Turbo SPG [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 21 March 2013

  

  We have at least a passing interest in alternate history. (Before you say anything, Dungeons and Dragons is still way nerdier.) It’s fun to think about how different the world would be if just one little thing had been different. Example: What if the Internet had never been invented? Instead of reading this text and watch the above music video on our mighty fine website, it (and a whole bunch of other content) might be contained on a laserdisc or something we send you by mail each month. (Hmmm…articles and photos of cars by mail…how has no one thought of that before?).

  See, imagining different outcomes of past events is neat, huh? Now imagine that Juan Manuel Fangio – the Argentine five-time Formula 1 world champion considered by many to be the greatest racing driver of all time – had a second career as a lone-wolf hitman, hell bent on assassinating genocidal 20^th century Latin American dictators and strongmen like Augusto Pinochet. And that El Maestro’s transport of choice for this occupation was that classically-offbeat Swedish hot hatch of the ‘80s, the Saab 900 Turbo SPG. Well no need to imagine, little ones, for Peter Peter Hughes (whom you may recognize as member of the Mountain Goats) released a concept album centered around just that in 2010 titled, quite simply, Fangio. And the video seen above for the third song on the album? That’s Hughes himself playing the role of revenge-hungry, Saab-skippering Fangio, and the whole shebang is directed and edited by our chum Davey G. Johnson, lately of a mystical place called AutoWeek.

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• Petula Clark Supports the Sports Car Building Home Team [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 8 March 2013

  

  Although most people are familiar with the male acts of popular music’s “British Invasion” of the 1960s (e.g The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five, The Who, The Animals), not very many people – even some who were around then – can name the female British invaders right away. And that’s too bad, because there were some truly talented lasses on the scene in those days: Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull and Petula Clark all achieved some degree of notoriety on this side of the Atlantic.

  Ms. Clark in particular found success on these shores, racking up many appearances on the go-to TV show for entertainers in those days, The Ed Sullivan Show. However, it is her appearance on the April 17, 1966 episode of Mr. Sullivan’s really big shew that catches our attention. Specifically, that matched set of red convertibles from Pet’s homeland: An Austin-Healey 3000, a Jaguar XK-E Series I, and an Aston Martin DB5. Did Britain’s Board of Trade (as it was known back then) have a hand in the automotive casting for this performance? Probably not, but then again, Aston Martins weren’t exactly dime-a-dozen in 1960s Manhattan. Also, we aren’t sure what’s more impressive: The fact that the Jag was able to move under its own power on cue, or that Petula is still performing and still looks great today at the age of 80!

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• Harlem Shake, Forza Motorsport 4 Style [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 4 March 2013

  

  In case you haven’t been in contact with the outside world for the last, oh, month or so, welcome back! We’ve missed you. Listen, before you start catching up on your emails, bills or even the posts on this site, there’s something you should know about. It’s a little something called the Harlem Shake and, in case you don’t want to read about all the gory details, basically it’s spawned a YouTube craze comprised of innumerable parodies. Basically, it’s this season’s Gangnam Style…except it isn’t.

  Anyway, this multimedia fad has spread to such a degree that even the online racing community has embraced it. This example, which comes to us courtesy of Xboxista domesticmango and friends, uses Forza Motorsport 4, the Top Gear Test Track, and a whole gaggle of customized vehicles, including a fairly convincing replica of Ken Block’s 2013 Ford Fiesta. And what’s up with that ending? All we can say is thank Nolan Bushnell for video games. As for the Harlem Shake, we say stand down, haters; it’ll peter out soon enough.

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• Chill out with Formula 1 Legends and Fresh Moods’ “My Face” [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 8 February 2013

  

  Considering the name and nature of chill out music (the relaxed, almost ethereal subgenre of electronica), it seems counterintuitive to pair a song that fits that category with footage from what was arguably the most glamorous – and dangerous – period in the history of Formula 1 racing. Yet that’s exactly what the folks behind Fresh Moods, a limited edition reissue of a chill out compilation LP of the same name, did. The gentle, meandering rhythms and gentle (compared to more aggressive electronic music subgenres like dubstep and trance) “instrumentals” and “vocals” actually mesh with the sinewy, largely uncluttered F1 cars of the late-‘60s and early-‘70s. And the kaleidoscope of vibrant colors doesn’t hurt, either.

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• The Top 10 Coolest Cars in Music Video History

  In Featured / By Kari DePhillips / 6 December 2010

  

  Cars and music videos go together like peanut butter and banana sandwiches – they may not thrill everyone, but those who love them are die-hard aficionados. Presented below, for your auto-erotic enjoyment, are just a handful of the memorable cars (and the videos that immortalized them) that have graced television screens over the years.

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