Case of the Mondays: Nostalgia Drags at 240-Frames-per-Second

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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 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 from Matthew Macomber on Vimeo.


(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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