Results tagged “Video”

I'm an unabashed fan of the minivan. If you need to haul a significant number of people or a significant amount of stuff or both on a regular basis, there is no better vehicle. I'd bet that my Odyssey minivan does more things well than whatever else your driving.

I'm a Honda guy, but the new Toyota Sienna looks like a very nice van. Regardless, this rap video for the Sienna is just plain awesome.

(Ironically, our next vehicle will likely not be a minivan because we want better towing for a possible camper upgrade in a couple of years. We'll likely end up with a Chevy Traverse crossover, sacrificing some interior space and an MPG or two for 1,700 lbs of towing capacity. Most folks would be glad to get out of the minivan, but I'll miss our Swagger Wagon.)

HT: Byrne at Majodojo

Yeah, I'm a little bit late for St. Patty's Day, but this is too awesome to wait until next year.

HT: Thinklings

Jared Wilson, long time blogger, recent author of the excellent Your Jesus is Too Safe and often quotes here, has a new Bible study resource coming April 1st called Abide: Practicing the Rhythms of the Kingdom in a Consumer Culture, from Threads media. I'm really looking forward to it.

The Hemmings blog, in two posts, pointed me to some nifty van stuff this week. I generally like vans, the minivan in particular because it does so much well, but I also grew up during the custom van craze of the 70's. I remember going to van shows in Southwyck Mall in Toledo (now gone) with my Dad. Check these out:

The first post led to this:

They found it at Big Blue's Online Carburetor. Can you guess what it does? Here's a video of one just like it in action:

I really want one, but the You Tube link says it'll destroy your records. Still, how cool is that?

The second post pointed me to Vans and the places where they were, a photo collection of old custom vans. Check this one out:

Yeah, that's a complete greenhouse from an 80's Ford Escort grafted on top, complete with opening hatchback. Here's another:

This van, unlike most of those at the site, is close to what folks were doing in the 70's. Wild paint and custom windows. The later conversion vans were the the mass production outcome, but at first every one of them was a one off like this one.

This video does a better job in about a minute and a half of explaining what seat belts do and why you should wear them than all the well thought out arguments of the last several decades combined. Powerful stuff, please watch.

HT: Autoblog

With Leno and Conan and NBC fighting a rather public battle over the Tonight Show, NPR's Wait Wait blog posted this clip from David Letterman back when he worked for NBC and GE was just about to take over. Very funny stuff.

This is from 1986, back when Letterman was just funny. This is about the time I stared watching him and I watched him rather religiously up until his politics got in the way of the funny, early in 2008 or so.

Hey Dave, can you go back to this kinda stuff?

Via Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Even tough I'm a car nut, I'm not usually keen on racing videos like this. Usually the thrill isn't captured on video. This one, however, is awesome. It's Michael Vergers' stunning 6min 48sec lap of the famous Nurburgring, or simply 'The Ring', race track in Germany. A lap of The Ring has become the standard for measuring a performance car.

In this video, Michael Vergers completes one of only two sub 7 minute laps of the 12.9 mile track (he did the other one too) in a 'production vehicle'. In fact, according to Wikipedia, only a handful of race cars have accomplished a sub 7 minute time either.

The track is relatively narrow and quite twisty. Several times at 100+ MPH he jumps the curbing or runs wide nearly into the grass. He hits speeds of 165 MPH and his time is an average of almost 114 MPH.. The position of the camera and the sound of the engine make this one incredible video.

Click full screen, turn up the volume and try not to smile.

HT - Michael Banovsky on Twitter.

Check out this amazing skit that my wife sent to me.

It made me cry. Of course, if you know me, that's a pretty easy trick. (Blasted emotions.) The video's long-ish at 5+ minutes, but very moving.

I want to say more, but I'll spoil it for you.

So just watch.