Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
The King & Marshall AA/FD Comes Home to Rhode Island
With the explosion in popularity of nostalgia drag racing and historic drag racing machinery in recent years, it is no surprise that some of the greatest cars from the past have been brought back to...
Tuesday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com
We’ve been following Drag Week with the diary of racer Jay Brown in his SOHC-motored 1964 Galaxie. We think he’s the only person to have raced at every single Drag Week since the start...
Australian Guy Drives For 50 Years Without a License, Then Gets Busted
Life is a funny thing. We have friends who had their licenses taken due to um, agressive driving and got caught about thirty seconds after they decided to slip behind the wheel before getting it...
Site of the Week: Yenko.net
During the horsepower war of the 1960s in Detroit, Ford, GM and Chrysler were cranking out high performance cars that ran harder and faster than anything previously built. That was good enough for...
Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set
We would have never caught this one if it were not for the guys at CarDomain. It seems they surf TMZ.com more than we do, which is never. That celebrity-stalking site posted this way back on...
Michigan Track Sets Crappy Record
Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan, has set a new track record. For rainouts. The track is suffering its worst year (in terms of weather) in its nearly six-decade existence. Adding pressure is the...
Video: ZZ572 Powered Jeep CJ
This Jeep is in Denmark…we think. Where ever it is, we want it. V8 powered CJ Jeeps have a certain air of coolness about them, but one packing a GM Performance Parts ZZ572 crate motor with...
Canadian Street Racing Law Deemed Unconstitutional
A Canadian street racing law that deemed anyone driving 50 kph above the posted speed limit as “street racing” has been deemed unconstitutional by an Ontario judge. The ruling came on the...
New Zealand Grandmother Has a Bitchin’ Hot Rod
This is some kind of cool. A New Zealand grandmother, and former drag racer, has recently been cruising her killer blown-Hemi-powered 1934 Ford hot rod around the streets of Lincoln, New Zealand....
The Dodge Caliber SRT-4 is Dead
Chrysler’s lone exciting small car is dead, according to a report from AutoWeek. No specifics were given on why the car was knocked out of the lineup, but if they’re killing this one, we...
Live Streaming Video from Hot Rod Drag Week 2009
Hot Rod Magazine’s fifth annual Drag Week is off and running with competitors heading to US 131 Dragway in Martin, Michigan for action today, Tuesday, September 15. Hot Rod is providing a live...
Video: Monday Racing at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009
Our last installment of coverage for Monday’s first day of competition at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 comes from BangShift.com forum member seanm, who put together a video of racing that includes...
Drag Week 2009 Coverage from FordFE.com and Jay Brown
Jay Brown has been running Drag Week since the very first year. He is a fan of the Ford FE engine and usually runs them. This time, he has a stack-injected SOHC motor in the running in a ’64...