Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
The Boss: Watch This Massive 1966 Hayes Logging Truck With A 16V-71 Detroit Diesel Engine Rumble Onto The Trailer !
Hayes trucks were basically born to be loggers and this one is the king logger. You are looking at a monster 1966 Hayes logging truck with an equally mighty 16V-71 Detroit Diesel engine. The fully...
Interesting History: The Iconic Mercedes 300SL Was A Pile Of Compromises That Never Should Have Worked
We look at certain cars as if they are works of art. They appear to be beautiful things born from the best thoughts of beautiful minds. The Mercedes 300SL is one of those cars. They sell for huge...
Watch Bob Bauman And His Wild Exhibition Pulling Dragster Smoke An Engine And Oil The Dirt In 1988
There’s a lot of awesome in this clip that runs for about five minutes and was captured in 1988 at a pulling event. The main attraction here is a guy named Bob Bauman who has an exhibition...
Killer 1960s Ad: This 1966 Sinclair Gasoline Commercial Features A Lightweight Coronet And A Young Drag Racing Leader In The Making
Here’s a real gem of a TV commercial that was shot in early 1966 at the then brand new Palm Beach International Raceway. The commercial “stars” Jack Thomas a young, up and coming...
Classic Video: This 1973 AMC Jeep Dealer Video Is Full Of Jumps and Neat Old Jeeps
For my taste the Jeep CJ5 is about the coolest one ever made. The styling is timeless (not all Jeep can say that) the performance is there and unfortunately the prices of those things continue to...
Truckin’ History: Check Out This Killer Video Showing GMC Setting Land Speed Records Back In 1989
Call us names if you want but we had no idea that GMC had built a special land speed racing version of the S-15 truck to take to the Bonneville Salt Flats and chase records back in 1989. Like so many...
Toughest Of All Time? Watch The Incredible 1968 Ford F-100 Chase From The Movie Mr. Majestyk
The debate about the best car chase in movie history will never be solved because everyone has their favorite. The debate over the best vehicles in a movie chase will also never be solved for much...
Ever Been In The Cockpit Of A Turbine Powered Hydroplane Before? Neither Had We! This Video Is Awesome
Meet Andrew Tate and make yourself at home in his office. That office happens to be the cockpit of the U-9 Delta Gear/Realtrac hydroplane which uses turbine power to haul the mail across the water...
Check Out Onboard From Argentina’s Biggest Racing Series: Straight-Six Stock Cars!
Quick: What’s the oldest continually running racing series in the world? Nope, it’s not NASCAR or Formula 1. Rather, it is Argentina’s national touring-car series, Turismo Carretera, which has...
End of The Line: This Video Shows Steam Locomotives Being Cut Up For Scrap In The 1930s, 1950s, and 1960s!
This is a cool hunk of video. Not just because it has old trains in it, not just because it has guys cutting stuff up with torches but because of what it represents. You are going to see locomotives...
Retro Review: This 1992 Pontiac Grand Am GT Review Is All About Pontiac Excitement
As a kid that grew up in the 1980s and had a dad who restored a 1964 Pontiac GTO, I was (and still am) a fan of Pontiacs. They were GM’s excitement division and while I was likely too young to...
More Fun On 4/16: Yes The Mopar Small Block Contingent Has Their Own Version!
More bore, more stroke, more power, more fun! That’s the logic that hot rodders have used since the dawn of the hobby and while the 416ci LS engine is the dominant modern displacement of this...
Happy Stroker Day! On 4/16 We Celebrate The Mighty 416ci LS Stroker Engine
Yeah, we know that “displacement days” are normally based around factory engines but we thought it was worth it to recognize one of the most popular stroker combinations of the modern age...
Americana Video: Watching Coke Delivery Men Work In Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin During The 1940s – Just Wow
Want to talk about a window into a world that no longer exists?! This is some really spectacular footage that seems to have been made by a local Coca-Cola bottler/distributor a long, long time ago....