Video clips

Here are some video clips that I've collected over the years. Some are car-related, others are either just plain cool or funnier than hell...

Right click on a picture and select "save link target as" to save each video to your machine.
The videos use the Divx codec or Windows Media format. The videos I encoded were done at fairly high quality settings so some filesizes are a bit large for you dialup guys, but that's the way life goes sometimes.

Ferrari videos

	*Dream Car Garage* drives a 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC, the last one ever made. A 2 liter, 4-cylinder double-overhead cam motor in a beautiful Scaglietti body. Nice close-ups of the car and plenty of loud, raucous engine noise. 46mb, 4min 26sec
	Fifth Gear's Vicki Butler-Henderson drives a cool silver Ferrari 250GT California Spyder past cool silver buildings on a cool silver London day. Light on engine sounds, but nice visuals. 18mb, 2min 04sec
	Fifth Gear's Vicki Butler-Henderson drives the Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale around Maranello and on the Fiorano track. Very tasty engine sounds. And may I say, Vicki is a seriously good looking car babe. She is single, but unfortunately I don't live in the UK. Bummer. 46mb, 5min 02sec
	Fifth Gear's Jason Plato drives the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti around Italy. Some nice shots inside The Factory, a modest amount of snarly V12 engine sounds and a bit of tail-out action with the traction control switched off. Car looks beautiful in this color of blue. 44mb, 4min 56sec
	Fifth Gear's Tom Ford drives a Ferrari 365GTB/4 (aka the Daytona) around London. The guy's an annoying wanker, but the car is looks spectacular in this unusual seafoam green. Unfortunately, not much in the way of engine sounds. 20mb, 2min 13sec
	Fifth Gear's Tiff Needell drives the Ferrari Enzo at the Fiorano racetrack. Nice bit of track driving and good engine sound on the in-car shots. 76mb, 9min 47sec
	Man, oh man, some people just should NOT be allowed to drive a Ferrari. A run at the dragstrip goes horribly awry. 1mb, 22sec

Formula One videos

	A little feature covering the demonstration that Formula One did through the streets of London in 2004. Nothing like the sound of a F1 car doing doughnuts! 23mb, 2min 45sec
	The "Star Wars" opening feature from the 2005 broadcast of the Monaco Grand Prix. 14mb, 2min
	A rare interview with the great Ayrton Senna. He talks about qualifying at Monaco and we go in car with him for a lap. This footage is from 1990, the car is McLaren MP4/6 with the Honda V10 engine. 18mb, 2min 41sec

Car videos

	I don't follow Monster Trucks regularly but caught this bit of freestyle action by Grave Digger. He had a great run going, but at 1 minute into this clip he nearly rolls over and saves it in a most spectacular fashion. Very cool. Monster Trucks are proof America is the greatest country on earth. Do ya think the French could have invented them? I think not. 13mb, 1min 42sec
	An in-car lap of Sebring in a Porsche GT3RS. Man, that turbocharged flat-6 sounds good! 10mb, 2min 31sec
	A short, but brilliantly simple commercial for the Ford Sport Ka. 1mb, 23sec
	Another short, but brilliantly simple commercial for the Ford Sport Ka. Recommended for those that dislike cats! 1mb, 40sec
	Now doing donuts indoors is undoubtedly cool, but seriously, if the rear wheels were to suddenly gain traction you'd be in a world of hurt. 1.5mb, 31sec
	This is a crash from a F3000 race a couple of years ago at Suzuka. This is some serious hang time! The driver and the cameraman were both uninjured. 1.5mb, 15sec

Miscellaneous cool videos

	This clip is from Letterman's show. He was doing a comedy bit featuring new products when things went horribly wrong. One of the funniest things I've seen on Dave's show. 54mb, 4min 57sec
	"Copper Clappers" is a comedy classic. Jack Webb (of TV's Dragnet) does this sketch with the late, great Johnny Carson. Brilliant, laugh-out-loud stuff. 2mb, 2min 48sec
	"No vehicle ever fails at Monster Garage and lives to talk about it". The failure of the team to finish this RX-7 project led to this most spectacular annihilation of the car. A Dillon M134D minigun fires 7.62mm NATO rounds at a fixed rate of 3000 rounds per minute with every 5th round or so a tracer. The clip shows 25 seconds of continuous firing - probably 1500-2000 rounds total. The aerial shot, with tracers lancing out across the desert at dusk is quite beautiful... 8mb, 58sec
	This is the longer version of the above clip as it originally aired. The shorter clip above was from a "best of" show. 11mb, 4min 28sec
	A demonstration clip showing an 4000-round ammo box being emptied by a Dillon M134D minigun. The sides of the box have been replaced with Plexiglas so you can see inside. Each box has two ammo bays side by side. The half-height divider in each bay helps the belt feed properly without causing jams. 1mb, 41sec
	A 3 minute demonstration clip of the Dillon minigun, set to music. Mmmm, I'm asking Santa for one of these for Christmas! 5mb, 3min 12sec
	A nifty animation showing the cycle of operation of a GAU17 (the Navy designation for a Dillon M134D). The animation follows the loading, chambering, firing, extracting and ejecting of a round. 2mb, 20sec
	A nifty animation showing the cycle of operation of a GAU16, the modern version of the classic M2 (aka the Ma Deuce) .50 caliber machine gun. The animation follows de-linking, chambering, firing, extracting, and ejecting of a round. 1mb, 16sec
	The title says it all. This clip was shown on our local news. Not recommended viewing if you are a parent. 4mb, 30sec
	Yeah, baby! You can never have enough power, especially in a chainsaw! Crappy video quality, I know. 1.5mb, 51sec