“Spinning Levers” is a short film from Chevrolet that was made in 1936, it’s a wonderfully simple and easily understandable look into how transmissions work and what a synchromesh is. These concepts are sometimes thought of as being borderline black magic, and to be fair, they’re often taught in unnecessarily obtuse and complicated ways.
This 9 minute and 39 second film will have you fully up to speed on how a gearbox works – all set to the soundtrack of the world in simpler, pre-WWII times.
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, the official Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
This is the new Fox Racing V1 matte helmet, it’s a lightweight helmet designed for both road use and racing, with a precise fit thanks to the six unique shell sizes. This many shell sizes…
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This film shows the first Corvettes being built in 1953, just 300 were painstakingly made by hand that year as Chevrolet ramped up for larger production figures in 1954. All 1953 Corvettes were Polo White…
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This short film by the team at Real Engineering provides an 11 minute, information packed speed run through the history of America’s Cold War nuclear powered planes. Early in the Cold War both the United…
Chuck Yeager is a man who needs no introduction, he was a fighter pilot who flew P-51 Mustangs in the Second World War but it’s his career after the war that made him a household…
