Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Ultra-Rare Baldwin-Motion 1971 Phase III GT Corvette Found and Restored
Simply hearing or seeing the words, “Baldwin-Motion” makes our little gearhead heart start to run faster, but when we were informed that the very last Phase III GT Corvette ever built by...
The Turbo Revolution is Upon Us, Projections Say One-Fifth of Vehicles Sold to be Turbocharged by 2015
Turbochargers are still an exception rather than the rule when is comes to domestic cars here in the United States. European manufacturers have been employing them for decades with differing levels...
Cool Video: 1980’s Sand Drag Action Complete With an Awesome Blower Explosion
Back in the 1980’s TNN was the place to be for awesome gearhead television programming. We say that because of the great lineup of shows that they had on Sunday mornings. American Sports...
Lex Joon’s Top Fuel Team Seeks Sponsorship on eBay
Lex Joon and his team Top Fuel have decided to hit eBay in an effort to grab a sponsor or two that would enable them to run the final two races of the NHRA tour this season. Joon has been racing in...
Physics Wins Again Video: How Not to Mud Bog Your ATV
Riding four-wheelers can be loads of fun. Bombing around in the woods, doing some mud bogging, making some high speed runs down fire roads and under high tension wires, a jolly good time. As fun as...
Sad News: Lenny Woods, California Ford Dealer, Son of Drag Racing Legend Tim Woods Found Dead
Lenny Woods, a man who grew up in the midst of the gasser wars and went on to own a Ford Dealership in Chino Hills, California was found dead inside the now closed business, suicide is suspected....
Craigslist Finds: The Donks of Memphis
The classic American full size car has many natural enemies. Demolition derbies have claimed umpteen thousands of them, they have been gutted for their big blocks in junkyards, and most recently they...
NASCAR’s Chase Apparently Chasing Away Fans
Maybe the headline should have read, “Jersey Shore” out draws NASCAR on TV, because it did, by hundreds of thousands of people. Last weekend’s NASCAR event at New Hampshire Motor...
Be There: English Power Tool Drag Racing Championship This Weekend
Yeovil, England will play host to the national Power Tool Drag Racing Championship this weekend. Unfortunately we’ll not be there to cover the event, but that doesn’t mean some of our...
You’re Doing It Wrong Video: How Not To Fire Up a Refurbished Turbine
We’re not qualified to comment on the proper way to start a refurbished turbine engine hanging off the wing of a Boeing 737, but we do know wrong when we see it. For instance, it is wrong to...
Quaker City Raceway Up For Auction: No Reserve Means A Guaranteed Sale
Quaker City Raceway in Salem, Ohio, is scheduled to go up onto the auction block on October 17, 2010. The track was put up for auction a couple years ago, but with a reserve. This time there is none,...
Trar-Tastic eBay Find: A 1939 Cadillac Monster Truck/Mud Bogger Fun Toy
If you are in the process of building a wild mud bogging, world crushing trar, you can stop. Your efforts will be in vain because the ultimate vehicle of the breed is for sale on eBay. The man who...
Sad News: Supercharger Guru Mert Littlefield Passes
Mert Littlefield, the supercharger maven whose equipment has adorned everything from fuel dragsters and floppers to monster trucks and mud bog racers has died. He was 66 years old....