Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Watch An Old Fuel Dragster Suffer A Blower Explosion During A Burnout And Shoot Shrapnel Everywhere – Nitro = Danger!
Chad and I both love nostalgia drag racing very much. Some would say too much, but that is another story for another day. One of the things that is both cool and really freaking dangerous at...
Tom Bailey’s 6.83 Drag Week Average Is The Biggest Drag Racing Feat In Decades – Here’s Why
(Photos by John Gatliff) – While Tom Bailey’s mind-blowing 6.83 average upon completion of Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 is most certainly the single greatest accomplishment for a...
Cacklefest at the 2013 New England Hot Rod Reunion – CACKLEFEST GALLERY!
(Photos by Rich Pasley) – Rich Pasley was our man on the scene of nitro central, otherwise known as the Cacklefest! The Cacklefest is the kind of living history tribute that closes out every...
Question of the Day: What was the Coolest Factory Option of the Muscle Car Era?
Through the 1960s and early 1970s, it must have been cooler than heck to work at one of the big three Detroit manufacturers. Sales were hauling along, muscle cars were being pumped out sometimes with...
2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion Photos – Wheelstands And Only Wheelstands!
(Photos by Rich Pasley and Dave Nutting) – There wasn’t a racer that left New England Dragway after the 2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion wondering if the place was a hooking track or...
Live Streaming Video Of The Incredible Effort To Raise The Costa Concordia HERE! –
The jaw dropping effort to raise and right the sunken Costa Concordia is in full swing off the coast of Italy and we have live streaming video of the work below. This has nothing to do with race...
CL Find: An LS-Swapped, Lifted, Altogether Awesome 1987 AMC Eagle Wagon – RTI Ramp Photos Included!
There’s a pretty devoted community for 4×4 AMC Eagles from the late 1970s and early 1980s. There are people who simply like to restore them, modify them lightly, and cruise them. Then...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Given A Time Machine What Specific Race Or Type Of Racing Would You Go Back And Watch?
This question came to be through multiple conversations with racers both active and former who told me awesome stories that I wish I could have experienced first hand. From Garlits shaving his beard...
2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion Photos – See Them All HERE!
(Photos by Rich Pasley) – The 2013 New England Hot Rod Reunion is in full swing here at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire. We’ve got a couple of shooters on the ground this...
Bruce Larson Launches USA-1 1968 Camaro Funny Car All The Way Off The Ground! We Got It All!
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – When Bruce Larson and John Worm announced that Worm’s shop would be building a tribute 1968 USA-1 Camaro for Larson to match race and pound on across the...
The Parting Shift: Hammering Gears at a Backwoods Strip in a Jerico Equipped Bracket Bomber
There is lots to love about this video as it’s Bangshifty to the core. Be it the camera angle, which makes us think of the famous chase movie “Duel” as we can only see the hand of...
2013 Orange Drag Strip Reunion Photos – Car Show and Drag Action Shots!
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – The other day we dropped some cool photos on you from the 2013 Orange Drag Strip Reunion which was recently held in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. This event is a...
Craigslist Find: Brian and Chad Are Shopping For Each Other – Here’s Brian’s Bitchin’ Unimog Pick For Chad!
So while we have the live broadcast of the 2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion presented by AAA Insurance, we had some downtime yesterday due to the rain at New England Dragway. Rather than waste...
Re-Run Video: Watch Our Entire NEW ENGLAND HOT ROD REUNION Broadcast Here!
UPDATE: We had another downpour Friday afternoon and now we are done with racing for the day. RACING STARTS AGAIN SATURDAY AT 9AM. That’s right! Starting this Thursday, we’re going to be...