Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
More Info Coming Out on Brett Stevens’ Drug Arrest
Brett Stevens, the Australian drag racing mega-star who was recently scooped up in a police drag net against illegal drugs seems to be in some major league trouble. First, he shocked the drag racing...
Video of the Week: 7 Minutes in Can-Am Heaven
After writing about the Lola T70 and thinking about the sheer awesomeness of the old Can-Am series, we remembered that there are probably lots of people who’ve never seen those wild old cars in...
Hot Rod Magazine 2009 Drag Week Schedule is Here!
Well, it’s time to put on your daddy pants again and start preparing for the most brutal test of man and street-legal (barely in some cases) machines ever devised: it’s Hot Rod Drag Week...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Penske/Donohue Lola T70 Mk3B
You know what they say about the really beautiful girls. They’re temperamental, flighty, unpredictable, and often times, more trouble than they’re worth, but damned it if we aren’t...
Lynn Wineland Not Doing Well
We’ve just received word that Lynn Wineland has entered the hospital in grave condition with myoplastic anemia, a bone disease. Lynn is one of the Petersen Publishing greats, having stared as a...
Pioneering NASCAR Official Robert “Hoot” Auton Passes
There’s another golden generation of people slowly leaving us, and that’s the people who were working and guiding NASCAR through its age of glory and growth back in the day. One of those...
Breaking News: Saleen Sells Off All Its Assets
Wow. We knew that Sallen was shopping for a buyer but this one hit us upside the head. MJ Acquisition was the purchaser and they are already in the high-performance industry, overseeing the operation...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Litton at Epping, 2006
It seems that lots of guys dug the stories of racing accidents that I have witnessed from last week’s Barnstormin’ column so I am going to profile a wreck or odd occurrence I’ve...
Barnstormin’: Sidekicks
Most of the stuff that happens in the world of cars and hot rodding is not just the handiwork of one person. Normally, it’s at least two people who have designed, created, or fabricated...
The Top 11 Things That Freiburger Found in His Office Today Upon His Return to Hot Rod Magazine
As most of you know by now, David Freiburger is returning to his position of Editor In Chief at Hot Rod magazine following 15 months of frolic here on the Web. Today is his first day back at the...
Up Close With Carl Tasca’s Mustang Cobra Jet No. 17
Man, sometimes even we get a little sick at our luck. We got an e-mail from our pal Jon Sandahl at Tube Chassis Designz in Hanson, Mass. You may remember Jon’s name from the ongoing saga of the...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Hail to the Chief Edition
Well, since DF has to get back on the short bus come Monday and head into the office, we thought we’d use this opportunity to say thanks, and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the...
Killer Gearhead Toy!
We spotted the link to the Dragmasters die-cast dragstrip in a post on our forums and checked it out. We ordered one within 6 seconds of seeing the demo video. It’s a long, gravity-feed...
Screw-Propelled Vehicle Shocker: We Tree’d The Ruskies By Decades!
A couple weeks back we were supremely creeped out by the video of the ZiL Russian military vehicle with its giant auger/screw drive system that we featured in our Motorized Freak of the Week column....