Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Dyno Video: Watch A 410ci Sprint Car Engine Get Repeatedly Pulled To 8500 RPM — Brutality!
If you like your dyno video action filled with high RPM wailing fury, than this video could be the best thing you have ever seen. The footage shows a 410ci sprint car engine being run on a dyno up to...
Four Into Six: Watch How Allen Millyard Made His Own Kawasaki Z1 Six Cylinder Block At Home
It’s purely amazing what the right mind with the right hands and the right tools can make. This video follows yesterday’s where Allen Millyard showed us how he made the cylinder jugs for...
We Drive It: The 2024 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate – A One Option Study In Modern SUV Opulence
In the modern world of new cars, there’s not a lot of opportunity for a buyer to do what was the norm decades ago. That was the process of effectively line item selection various options, both...
A Day At The Digs Circa The 1970s At Orange County International Raceway
I love these types of videos. Why? Because they really take you to a normal day at the drag strip decades ago and you realize that a normal day at the strip back then was about the same as it is now,...
1980s Supermodified Mayhem From Oswego Speedway In New York – Fire, Tempers, and Fires Flare!
There are few places if any that are more synonymous with Supermodified racing across the country than Oswego Speedway in New York. Opened in 1951 as a 5/8th mile dirt track it was that surface and...
A Formidable Fox: The 1992 SAAC Mark II Mustang Was Big Bucks Back In The Day But It Hauled
There were so many variants of the Fox Mustang built both by Ford and other places back in the 1980s and 1990s that it seems like a fool’s errand to try and place them all. Because of that,...
Big Thrash: Watch A Kiwi Caterpillar Crew Rebuild A D8R That Lives In Antarctica!
Overhauls are among our favorite things to watch on the internet. That’s doubly true when the video is produced and laid out as well as this one is. There’s a reason for that though....
Watch 1971 California Highway Patrol Officers Slide, Spin, and Haul in 440ci Powered Polaras
We have to thank a Mopar lovin’ tipster for this killer 25-minute film depicting California Highway Patrol driver training in 1971. The police cars shown in this video are 1971 Dodge Polaras...
What’s It Like To Drive A 900hp Vintage McLaren Can-Am Car? Let Driver Andy Newall Tell You
Here’s a great look at what it is like and what it takes to drive a 900hp vintage McLaren Can-Am Car. Driver Andy Newall talks not only about the immense power of the car, not only about the...
Awesomely Weird: This 1970s Chevrolet Parts Film Stars Evel Knievel And Literally Makes No Sense
We’re guessing someone lost their job for this one. You are going to watch this 1970s Chevrolet parts film which stars Evel Knivel and makes literally no sense at all. The theme of the film is...
Check Out These Snapshots Of American Mechanical History – Cool Cars, Factories, More
(Photos from Detroit Public Library Digital Collection) – It has been a while since I got myself lost in the digital stacks of the Detroit Public Lbrary’s photo and image collection. I...
Watch An Out Of Control Porsche Nearly Wipe Out Two People In A Megabusa (Lotus 7 Variant) Sports Car On The ‘Ring
Imagine that you are just minding your business, hauling around the famed Nurburgring with your girlfriend in your little Megabusa sports car (think of a Lotus 7 and you’ve pretty much got it)...
Full Time Job: This 1970s Chevrolet Film Promotes The Company’s Tried and Tough Full Time 4-Wheel Drive System
There’s a distinct formula for a 1970s car maker promotional video. Step one, hire a dude who has been smoking four packs a day for thirty years. Step two, find some cool but ultimately...
Watching a Locomotive Turbocharger Get Serviced Is Just As Awesome As You Think It Is
This is one of those times when we really don’t have much to tell you about the context of the video below other than to say, THIS TURBO IS FLIPPING HUGE AND WATCHING IT GET REBUILT IT IS...