Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Retro-Review: This Look At The 1994 Lotus Esprit Is Awesome – The Outsider Sport Car That Flew With Four
The Lotus Esprit was always an interesting case for me. As a kid, I never really knew where it slid into the sports car/super car hierarchy because it was cool looking but not over the top, it was...
Awesome 1970s In-Car Video With Gerry Marshall As He Muscles A Screaming 302 Chevy Around A British Road Course
Lots of American racing fans probably don’t know who the heck Gerry Marshall is but we know our European readers will know the name right off the bat. Marshall was one of the best “saloon...
Homemade Heroics: Watch A Wild Vertical Take Off Airplane Get Built At A Guy’s House In 1950s America
This is one of those videos that makes you realize just how much the world has changed over the years, right? Yesterday we showed you Franklin Dobson and his cool hovercraft that you could have built...
Grunt Force Trauma: Watch A Mack E9-V8 Churn Out Big Power And HUGE Torque On The Dyno
The Mack E9-V8 engine was a 998ci behemoth of a diesel that powered several models in the Mack lineup over the years. Powerful and fairly compact, the engine has its champions and detractors. It did...
Cool Video: Watch This Profile On Dan Pastorini The Star NFL Quarterback Who Went Top Fuel Racing In The 1980s
In motorsports it is always cool when there is crossover from traditional sports heroes, right? In today’s world of drag racing there is former NBA player Tom Hammonds, there is current NFL...
Pistons Falling From The Sky – Watch This John Deere Pulling Tractor Blow Up In Spectacular Fashion At A Pull
This is the first terrestrial engine explosion we have seen that actually makes it rain pistons. For real. After the engine gives up the ghost and the tractor stops, pistons and rods are still...
Great Chase: The Campy But Still Awesome Car Chase From The Stallone Movie “Cobra”
The Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra may be mostly unwatchable dreck, but I like the car chase in it, despite the fact that there’s a fair amount of campy weirdness throughout. The reason I like...
The Turbosupercharger: Master of the Skies – Awesome WWII Film – Boost FTW Against the Axis!
The awesome power potential of the turbocharger is on full display these days. From little production engine to mighty racing mills, turbos are everywhere. Turbos were not widely used by anyone in...
Gearhead History: A Look At The Classic American Gas Station Through Photos From 1900-1945
The gas station has been a big part of American life since automobile ownership exploded in the early parts of the 20th century. Over the years these places evolved from greasy, grimy shacks on the...
Mud Master: Watch This Loaded Logset 6F Skidder Merrily Chug Through DEEP Gumbo
Europeans always have more refined names for stuff than we do, seemingly. Here? We call machines like this log skidders, the machines designed to drag felled trees out of their natural habitat and to...
Wonderfully Weird Wagon: The 1989 Spoilers Plus Aero GT Was A Fun Take On A Ford Taurus Wagon
Isn’t it fun when you get reminded of something that you forgot about or better yet learn something that you never knew was a thing in the first place? That’s the case with this video...
Watch The Pink Panther Get Waxed In A Street Race By An Old Lady In A Sleeper
You know that we’re not huge street racing advocates around here but in the realm of the cartoon world? We’ve got no issues with that, especially when it involved the iconically cool Pink...
Crank Up The Speakers: Watching and Listening To This Allard J2R At Goodwood In 1999 Is So Awesome – Cadillac Power!
Sydney Allard was one heck of a guy. He was the founding father of drag racing in England, was an awesome engineering, and came up with an epic blueprint on how to build a car that people would love....
Bleep Show: The 1974 AHRA Winternationals, A Failed TV Pilot About Evel Knievel, and Sam Elliot Swearing – VIDEO
Sometimes bad TV is the best TV, right? When it comes to the history of television, there have been some really awful shows that made the air and some great ones that never saw the light of day. This...