Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Texas Man Puts Turbine in Trunk of 1939 Ford Street Rod, Thinks it Can go 300 mph
We’re not quite sure where to start with this one. Maybe we’ll take a shot at the TV reporter for saying the car will be going to the “boon-ville” salt flats, or maybe at the...
More Street Car Super Nationals Coverage From DragRacingOnline
While Chad was taking killer video from the starting line during the PSCA’s Street Car Supernationals V held at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, our pals at DragRacingOnline were covering...
SAAB Screwed: Koenigsegg Backs Out of Deal with GM to Buy Brand
Word has come out that Swedish supercar builder Koenigsegg has backed out of a deal with General Motors to buy the SAAB brand. The Swedish government has announced that it will not act to buy the...
Site of the Week: Massive Collection of Vintage American Car Sales Brochures
We’ve got to thank BangShift.com member Jeremy George (Mustang13 on the forums) for the tip on this incredible website. What you’ll find when you click on the link below is a treasure...
Legendary 1964 Magazine Head to Head Comparison Test Set for 2010 Rematch
The year was 1964 and Pontiac was hot on promoting it’s new GTO. The car now credited with officially ushering in the muscle car era was flying off of dealer lots and into the hands of hot...
NASCAR’s smash ’em, crash ’em season finisher in Florida
Denny Hamlin kept his word and wrecked Brad Kaselowski during the NASCAR Nationwide race on Saturday last weekend. This ended the season, but kept the streak alive of Hamlin and Kaselowski crashing...
Historic Video: The First Fastest Street Car Shootout
With all of this week’s talk about Larry Larson’s 6-second Nova, easily the fastest regularly driven street car anywhere, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the first...
Winner: Worst Appropriation of a Car-Guy Term
Here’s a total buzz kill. The “young voters demanding bold action on climate and energy in 2009” have ripped off a perfectly good car-guy term in naming their web site:...
1967 Mustang Currently Leading East African Rally
How cool is this? Ian Duncan, at the wheel of a 1967 Mustang packing a 351 and a four-speed, is currently leading the 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally. From the looks and sounds of it, the...
Camaro May Outsell Mustang By Year End
It hasn’t happened since the mid-1980s, but there is a chance that the Chevy Camaro might actually outsell the Ford Mustang this year. Even Chevy executives are a bit suprised how well the car...
Book Review: The Corvette Factories by Mike Mueller
Mike Mueller’s latest work, The Corvette Factories: Building America’s Sports Car is a cool look back, not just on the history of the Corvette, but on the history of how we build cars....
US Soldiers Get VIP Treatment at Qatar Unlimited Hydroplane Race
It wasn’t just the drag racers making big horsepower in Qatar last weekend. The unlimited hydroplane guys got invited over by the Sheik to compete for the first time in the country’s...
Great Thread: Cars on the Ocean Floor
The Internet is an amazing place to find all sorts of automotive stuff you may never have thought of and that’s really fun and entertaining. Like this: how about a bunch of photos of cars at...
Video: RM Auctions General Lee Delivered to New Owner, Upside Down!
Here’s a video you thought you’d never see: a car from a high-end auction sale delivered on its roof. This is one of the cars used in the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie, and it’s...