Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Incredible Skills: See Allen Millyard Build A V8 Engine From Two Kawasaki Four Bangers – The Z1 1600 V8 Is Astonishing
England’s Allen Millyard may not be a household name in America at the moment but we’re telling you that by the end of the year, basically everyone in the gearhead world will totally know...
Historical Drag Video: The Story of the Snake and Mongoose As Told By the Snake and the Mongoose – Once Upon A Wheel 1971
More than 20 minutes of video from 1971 profiling the epic and incredibly profitable rivalry between Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen, as bankrolled by...
The Worst Tank Ever: This Look At The WW2 Valiant Assault Tank Is A Study In Failure
Of all the rabbit holes I have gone down in the last year, studying old tanks may be the weirdest. Early on in the quarantine adventure of 2020 I found a series called “Age of Tanks” on...
A Homemade Shifter Kart And A Guy With The Guts To Wind It Out
There are few things more joyful than hopping on a go kart and having some fun. Both my sons have them and we have a riot with ’em at the house and when we sneak them off into a parking lot or...
Dozin’ Off: This 1950s Promotional Film For The Then New Caterpillar D9 Is Awesome
When the Caterpillar D9 was introduced in 1954, it represented the biggest, baddest thing the company had built to date. The machine was designed to compete with the epic Euclid TC-12 bulldozer which...
Cool Drag Video: A Look Back At Detroit Dragway On The Last Weekend Of The 1989 Season
There are few dead drag strips with more mythology surrounding them than Detroit Dragway. Unlike places on the west coast that got famous for match racing and all that other stuff, Detroit Dragway...
Harry Lee’s Tractor Collection Is Filled With The Greatest Freaks Ever – You Do Not Need To Love Tractors To Love This Video
Seriously, you do not have to give the time of day for tractors to love this video. Why? This is a video about homemade awesomeness, the kind of thing that we love to celebrate here. Harry...
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,...
