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06-07-2010, 11:35 AM
While we usually lean on each "Case of the Mondays" to be off-beat, quirky comedic news posts to help you get your work week started off on a good foot, we thought this awesome high-def footage of some nostalgia drag racing might put a smile on many of your faces. Matthew Macomber took his slow-motion camera to New England Dragway (http://newenglanddragway.com/home/index.php) in Epping, New Hampshire, on May 30th, 2010 to record the nostalgia drags, and the result is a few brief moments of violence, noise, and smoke transformed into minute and forty-seven seconds of poetry and beauty.
Nostalgia Drags at 240 FPS (http://vimeo.com/12215744) from Matthew Macomber (http://vimeo.com/matthewmacomber) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com).
(click through to Vimeo to watch in full HD)
There's just something hypnotic about watching the sidewall on a big slick wind up and wrinkle to absorb the hit, or a roadster chassis flex after coming down from a wheelstand, or perhaps it's just the Puccini soundtrack. Of course, if you prefer your nostalgia vintage-style, instead of fresh-squeezed, how about a little 1000-fps action from 1969, complete with period-correct voiceover?
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Nostalgia Drags at 240 FPS (http://vimeo.com/12215744) from Matthew Macomber (http://vimeo.com/matthewmacomber) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com).
(click through to Vimeo to watch in full HD)
There's just something hypnotic about watching the sidewall on a big slick wind up and wrinkle to absorb the hit, or a roadster chassis flex after coming down from a wheelstand, or perhaps it's just the Puccini soundtrack. Of course, if you prefer your nostalgia vintage-style, instead of fresh-squeezed, how about a little 1000-fps action from 1969, complete with period-correct voiceover?
http://www2.powertvonline.com/digitalads/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=260&cb=437438&n=a2d674f6 (http://www2.powertvonline.com/digitalads/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a2d674f6&cb=123583)
More... (http://www.streetlegaltv.com/forum/case-mondays-nostalgia-drags-240-frames-5642.html)