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Progress Continues on Ridetech’s Killer Factory Five ’33 Build

Posted in Car Features March 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

As you know, the guys and girls at Ridetech are always up to something awesome. Whether it is buying or selling cars at auction, thrashing their stuff on road courses and autocrosses across the country or building their next world beater, they really know how to have fun. The crew at Ridetech is closing in [...]

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Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]

Posted in Car Features February 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this kick ass dragster he spied in the staging lanes. He wasn’t the only one who was smitten by the big block [...]

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Feature w/Video:Thump Truck – A 23,000lb Kenworth That’s About to Run 13s

Posted in Car Features February 1, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Brian Lohnes) – This thing is truly insane. A 23,000lb behemoth making 1,000hp at the tire that defies logic, the known laws of physics, and all levels of common sense. On the day photog Dave Nutting and I met Leon Smith, the owner of this 1998 Kenworth T-800 truck, it was [...]

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Mini-Feature: Barb Hamilton's 1937 Willys Gasser

Mini-Feature: Barb Hamilton’s 1937 Willys Gasser

Posted in Car Features May 13, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Barb Hamilton is a woman who truly blazed a trail for females in drag racing. As much credit as Shirley Muldowney gets for “running with the boys” and becoming the first female to challenge the sport’s elite racers, there may be no Muldowney story without Barb Hamilton. Hamilton was the first woman granted a competition [...]

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eBay Find: A Vintage Jet Funny Car Available for Fun and Profit

eBay Find: A Vintage Jet Funny Car Available for Fun and Profit

Posted in Car Features April 4, 2011  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Now that Nostalgia Funny Cars are sweeping the nation like some sort of nuclear powered wild fire, it seems about time for the same thing to happed with Jet Funny Cars. Yes, we know that is a crackpot assumption, but it is the reasoning that we’d use when trying to convince our wife that we [...]

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