The Dork-O-Motive Podcast
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The Dork-O-Motive Podcast
The Dork-O-Motive Podcast hosted by Brian Lohnes is a research driven, story fueled, mechanically stoked look at the machines, people, and history that make up the modern mechanical world. Whether it's the stories of the men and women who have done amazing things in racing, the machines that roar ar...
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500mph Failure: The Incredible Wingfoot Express 2 and A History of Rocket Cars 1928-1965
This is the story of Walter Arfons' incredible Wingfoot Express 2 rocket land speed car. It's also a history of some pretty incredible rocket powered...
Coventry Climax: The Forklift Company That Dominated F1 - A History
This is the story of a company that is one of the most incredible in auto racing history. An operation known for making small engines for fire pumps,...
Fastest Car In The World: The 1906 Stanley Steamer Rocket - A Canoe Bodied Record Smasher
This is the story of the fastest car in the world in 1906. The first car to exceed 120mph and a machine that destroyed the most decorated field of aut...
The Novi V8: A History of the Indy 500s Star-Crossed Horsepower Monster
The famed Novi V8 is one of the most storied engine in American motorsports history and also one of the most star-crossed.
Massively po...
Party Crashers: How Five Stock Bodied Cars On Nitro Changed Drag Racing Forever
This is a story about how five cars with no proper competition class, all running on nitro, crashed the party at the 1965 NHRA US Nationals and change...
The Engine That Refused To Die: An Offenhauser History
The Offenhauser four cylinder engine is one of the most incredible power plants in the history of American motorsports.
It's basic desi...
Designed to Dominate: The Ford DOHC V8 Story - An Indy 500 Legend
Ford's foray into the Indy 500 in the 1960s is a motorsports story for the ages. In 1963 the company used a pushrod engine derived from their successf...
Blown Into Obscurity: The False Start of Centrifugal Superchargers in Drag Racing
Today, centrifugal superchargers play a huge roll in the sport of drag racing. They are capable of making huge power efficiently and the technology bu...
The 313mph Backyard Hot Rod: The Story of Art Arfons' 2,500hp Anteater
The history of land speed racing is marked by some of the most innovative, interesting, and oddball vehicles ever made. One of them belonged to Art Ar...
Masters of Disaster: The Men Who Invented and Perfected Oil Well Firefighting
This is the story of three men.
Three men who through their own bravery, creative approach, and lifelong obsessions, created the indust...
The Man Who Made Garlits: Setto Postoian and Drag Racing's First Top Fuel Rivalry
He's a man who have likely never heard of, Serop "Setto" Postoian, an early top fuel master who helped to make Don Garlits. Postoian was among the ear...
Ludicrous Speed: The Racing and Land Speed Record Tractors of the 1930s
This is a look back, 90+ years back into the history of speed to check out the exploits and impact of the amazing racing tractors created by the Allis...
Harnessing Hell: A History Of Top Fuel Clutch Technology 1950-1970
This is the story of how early drag racers developed the clutch technology that has ultimately lead to the engineering wonders in today's 11,000hp top...
War For The Woods: The Incredible Effort To Save New England's Forests After The Hurricane of 1938
When the Hurricane of 1938 struck New England, it was a disaster of proportions unknown to the region at that point. No storm in modern history had wr...
The Malcontent: Scotty Fenn's Self-Destruction In Drag Racing
There are few stories in the history of drag racing that can compare to that of Alfred Gordon Fenn, known as Scotty.
He was a visionary and crea...
The Buffum V8: America's Long Ago Forgotten First V8 Powered Production Car
He was a man with dozens of patents to his name, the designer of the first four cylinder car in America, the first eight cylinder car, and the first V...
Battling Beast of Burden: The Story Of The Massive M26 Dragon Wagon Truck of WWII
This is the in-depth history of what I believe to be the greatest heavy duty truck of the second world war. The M26 tank retriever was a machine desig...
War Hemi: The Story of Ford's 1,100ci Aluminum WWII GAA V8
It's a stunning thing to realize that Ford mass-produced an 1,100ci, dual overhead camshaft, alunimum block, flat plane crank V8 in the 1940s. Sill th...
Drag Racing's Mad Scientist: The Beautiful Mind Of Sneaky Pete Robinson
This is the story of one of the greatest minds in the history of the sport of drag racing. Lew Russell Robinson known more widely as "Sneaky Pete" Rob...
Two Engines and No Chance: Al Stein's Twin Engine Porsche Indy Car Was Homebuilt Perfection
The Indy 500 has long been recognized as one of the most amazing hot beds of racing innovation in history. The 1966 race saw a car that may well stand...
4.3 The Greatest Race You've Never Heard Of: A History of Bahamas Speed Week 1954-1966
Every winter for 13 years between 1954 and 1966 the greatest sports cars as well as the greatest sports car drivers in the world would gather in the B...
4.2 The Wild History Of INDOOR Drag Racing In Chicago During The 1960s!
During three winters in the 1960s, hot rodders in Chicago had the unique opportunity to do something no one has been able to do before or since. They...
4.1 Drag Racing's Darkest Day: The 1969 Yellow River Drag Strip Disaster
In early March of 1969, the single worst disaster in the history of American motorsports took place at a small, virtually unknown drag strip in rural...
3.7 Origin Story: How Stock Car Racing Was Born In Los Angeles Circa 1934!
You think you know, but you have no idea. Stock car racing in the United States was born in the south, but not the south you are think of. On this epi...
3.6: Consumed: The First Ferris Wheel and How It Ruined The Life Of George Washington Ferris
What if I told you that the first Ferris wheel, built in 1893 was 265ft tall, powered by a 1,000hp steam engine, and carried 2,160 people at the same...
3.5: Cold War Crushers: The Awesome History of The Air Force Heavy Press Program
The US Air Force Heavy Press program, executed between 1950 and 1957 is one of the most incredible industrial achievements in history. After identifyi...
3.4: Fastest - An Oral History of the 1992 Hot Rod Magazine Fastest Street Car Shootout
In 1992 Hot Rod Magazine gathered a collection of the fastest street cars in America for a showdown in Memphis, Tennessee. The reverberations of this...
3.3: Beating Hitler With Combines - The Epic Story of The 1944 Harvest Brigade
This is a wonderful story from the home front of WWII. The gumption of the American farmer, the strength of industry, and the inventive nature of gove...
3.2 Small Blocks vs The World: The Wild Story of The 1971 Questor Grand Prix
Imagine a racing event where 30 of the best drivers came from all corners of the world to clash at the nicest race track ever built. Imagine that half...
3.1: Unstable - The Deadly and Explosive History of Headlights
The automotive headlight is not exactly the most exciting part of a car, right? Wrong. Back in the early 1900s not only were headlights new and exciti...
2.5: Rip Tide: The Incredible and Dark History of The World‘s Water Speed Record
The world's water speed record has been held by only 9 people since 1928. It has an 85% death rate in attempts and the current record has stood since...
2.4: 1,000 Ton Sucker Punch - The Wild Story Of WWI Q-Ships
Imagine a single weapon of war with such vicious tactics that it nearly defeated an entire country. Such was the case with Germany's fleet of U-boats...
2.3: Too Fat To Fly: The Crazy Story Of How Super Speedway Big Rig Racing Was Born!
In 1979 a promoter from Tennessee put on the first ever big rig super speedway race and it caused a national panic. The government, the trucking indus...
2:2 - Truckin' Amazing: The Story of WWII's Red Ball Express
In July of 1944 the Allies had a problem. Having landed successfully in France and established a beachhead, they had been stalled for weeks. Thankfull...
2.1: Suicidal Speed and Splinters - A History Of Board Track Racing In America
For a span of about 25 years in America, the fastest racing venues in the country were not made of asphalt, concrete, or brick, but rather wooden boar...
1.28 Out Of Gas At 41,000ft: The Unbelievable Story Of The Gimli Glider
On July 23, 1983 a Canada Air 767 with 61 passengers and eight crew aboard ran out of fuel while flying over a remote area of Ontario, Canada at 41,00...
1.27: Twisted Steel and Sex Appeal: The Weird History of Staged Locomotive Wrecks 1896-1935
Between 1896 and 1935 a unique and bizarre series of spectator events occurred across America. Those events were the staged head-on collisions of stea...
1.26: Under Pressure: The Story of Bill Lear’s Steam Powered Race Car That (Never) Ran The Indy 500
Bill Lear will go down as one of the most incredible inventors of the 20th century. The man who created the car radio, miniature tuning coils for radi...
1.25: A Race To Oblivion: The 1927 Dole Air Derby
The 1927 Dole Air Race stands as one of the most bizarre and tragic events in the history of flight. Paid for by James Dole, the pineapple magnate, th...
1.24: The Best Worst Ship Ever - The Story Of The SS Great Eastern
This is the story of one of the greatest engineering achievements of the Victorian Age. It is also the story of a ship so far ahead of its time it wa...