Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Video: Watch A Huge Plymouth Stock Eliminator Car Pull A Bumper Dragging Wheelstand and Never Lift!
Stock and Super Stock cars are known for pulling great wheelstands, but this is beyond the pale! The driver of this humongo Plymouth, which we think is a C/SA (C stock automatic) machine launches of...
Video: Watch BangShift Chad and the Rodfather Tour Burn Tires and Cruise the Highway – Hella Cool Road Trip
The Andy Brizio 80th birthday party and rolling car show known as the Goodguys Rodfather Tour continues to wind through the country working its way toward Indy where it will terminate next week. Chad...
eBay Find: A Neat 1960 Studebaker Lark Street Gasser – Straight Axle, Small Displacement Greatness!
The gasser and A/FX class at Drag Week this year garnered lots of smiles from fans and fellow racers alike. The cars were all very nostalgic feeling and ran well. I was so into their look and...
Bonus Gallery: Action, Show, and Pit Photos From the 2012 Holley LS Fest – Bowling Green, Kentucky
(Photos by Jeff Lee) – The 2012 Holley LS Fest was a huge success and a fantastic multi-faceted event. There was lots of action on the strip at Beech Bend Raceway, wild sideways drifting on a...
Gallery: Drag Week 2012 Action and Pit Photos From the Texas Motorplex
(Photos by Justin Oney) – Over the coming days we’re going to have a bunch of cool stories and stuff looking back over the madness that was Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012. While I was up...
Video: Goodguys RodFather Tour Update – BangShift Chad Interviews Some of the Cool Dudes On The Trip!
As you read this, Chad is on the edge of the Bonneville salt flats with the more than 100 participants in the 2012 Goodguys Rodfather tour, helping to wrangle them all for a massive group photo. In...
Event Gallery: The 2012 Bootleggers Hot Rod Club Show – Kemah, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we took you to the ever popular Kemah Cruise in Kemah, Texas and today we’re staying in the same town and hitting a different show, the 2012...
Cruise Gallery: The Kemah Cruise – September 2012
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Now that the blazing temps are mostly in the rear view mirror of the Texas summer, Wickam is back on the mean streets with his camera keeping tabs on shows and...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2012: Today’s Track – Memphis International Raceway
Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 presented by Gear Vendors heads into the home stretch today, literally. We’ll be racing all morning and into the afternoon at Memphis International Raceway and...
Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 Update: The Carnage Monster Attacks In Texas!
Well it was certainly an interesting day at the Texas Motorplex on Tuesday as a couple of Drag Week fields were decimated by carnage both on a off the track. There were some heroic runs, monster...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2012 – Today’s Track: Thunder Road Raceway – Gilliam, Louisiana
After two intense days of competition at Tulsa Raceway Park and the Texas Motorplex, 2012 Hot Rod Drag Week competitors will be laying the lumber to the quarter mile at Thunder Road Raceway Park in...
Drag Week 2012: Today’s Track – The Texas Motorplex – Ennis, Texas
Today Drag Week heads to one of the country’s finest drag strips, the Texas Motorplex. There’s been lots of modern drag racing history made at this track and many of us are salivating at...
Drag Week Update: Nuclear Drag War in Oklahoma – Larson, Lutz, Barry All Crest 200mph!
Let it be known, Monday was the quickest and fastest Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week competition day in the history of the event, which is now in its eighth running. Three cars crested the two hundred...
eBay Find: A 1934 Chevy That’s Built To The Hilt – But Is It Too Much?
You can find lots of Pro Street style hot rods for sale on eBay. Most look the part, but don’t have all that much in the suds department. Then there’s the select few cars like this 1934...