Videos by 540merlin

A slide show I whipped together - with a little help from a friend. This was 2005 when I was runniung the aluminum block 540 with a Richmond 6 speed. My first autocross with the new engine. A few minutes after these pictures were taken, I blew up my transmission. That's what we like about high performance bigblocks! Be sure to watch in "High Quality". Yes, I do know how to spell Corvette! The music, for the few who do not know, is Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild: Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Lookin' for adventure And whatever comes our way Yeah Darlin' go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space I like smoke and lightning Heavy metal thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin' that I'm under Yeah Darlin' go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space Like a true nature's child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna...

Just the good parts - no yakking or BS!

A little tour of my 540 powered 70 Corvette and 540 powered 69 Camaro, with a test drive thrown in. And a couple of burnouts for good measure.

Horrific convertible Corvette crash caught on film. Young woman is thrown from car into icy water, barely surviving.

My 1970 Corvette with a new $30,000 Bill Mitchell Hardcore Racing all aluminum 540 biglock first start up.

Some miscellaneous shots of my 540, 5 speed daily driver. My daughter's song Summer's Ending is the sound track - catch her at "Tycube".

Line up for the Autocross with ali riding - you can hear the sound of the cars idle pretty good in this video. Just the way a car should sound.

Pemberton 2007. I won the Stock 6 class racing against modified C5's and C6's. I'm good with that.

Filmed by Ali while racing up at Pemberton airport. This is with the old Bill Mitchell Hardcore Racing peice of crap 600HP 540CID aluminum engine. I rebuilt it after 3,000 street miles, then after another 3,000 street miles. Then the block cracked and I threw it in the garbage. Bill Mitchell refused to honour the "warantee" and would not return my half dozen messages. I'm only out $30,000 in total due to their junk...

540 Corvette and 540 Camaro just for getting to and from work. The Corvette used to be a Merlin from Bill Mitchell, but that proved to be junk and not warranteed, so i replaced with a real 540 built by Yorke. Much better!