Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
How To Make $101,000 In A Day: Every Radial vs The World Elimination Run From The DuckX Sweet 16 2.0!
In terms of raw performance numbers, there may never be another small tire drag race like Sweet 16 2.0. The event happened last weekend at South Georgia Motorsports Park and it featured two classes....
Hell On Parts: This Bugatti Brake Testing Video Is 1,800-Degrees Of Gnarly
Yeah, you are looking at a brake rotor that is carry about 2,000-degrees of temperature in the middle of a brake testing regimen that would make even the most brutally harsh engineer cringe. The work...
Video: Hanging With Mac – A Fun Conversation With Drag Racing’s Most Unmistakable Voice
There was a moment a couple of years ago when I had to promise Dave McClelland that I was not stalking him. As Dave decided to step away from some of the work he was doing as an event host, a few of...
Incredible Photos: We Tour 3Dog Garage – Is This America’s Greatest Car Collection?
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) –A few weeks back I was fortunate to able to tour one of the most incredible private car collections anywhere in the world. Maybe you think that is hyperbole...
2019 Summit Racing Equipment Piston Powered Expo Show Photos – Another Killer Event!
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – There are certain shows that even we look more forward to than others in terms of providing coverage of. The Summit Racing Equipment Piston Powered Expo is one of...
Spud Speedway In Caribou Maine Is For Sale – Cool Little Track With A Price Lower Than Lots Of Houses! Wow!
So we have been showing you a lot of these track listings lately and as it turns out people like finding them here. They like finding them so much that we have to sometimes take them down after the...
Funny Stuff: Tim Wilson Performs The Talladega Song – You Don’t Want To Be Near This Family At The Track
(By Greg Rourke) –Can you use a good laugh? Sure you can, we all can. Are you familiar with the musical stylings of the late Tim Wilson? In my opinion Tim was the Southern comedian Jeff...
Aeromotive’s Adjustable Universal In-Tank Brushless Fuel Pumps Are Here! The Best Of All Worlds!
How do great companies stay great? By listening to their customers, that’s how. Aeromotive has proved once again that it follows that mantra as good, or better than anyone in the industry with...
The Story Of The Surfin’ Bird: 3 Strangers, 1 ’75 Abandoned Firebird, and 2000 Miles to Glory
(Words and photos by John Bunger) – Meeting strangers from the internet to revive a forgotten muscle car and drive it 2000 miles across the country might just be the worst idea I’ve ever...
This Ford Commercial Truck Promo Video From 1968 Shows Loaded Trucks Being Jumped And Mercilessly Beat Up On
Nothing beats manufacturer produced promotional videos like this one for the Ford commercial truck line in Great Britain for 1968. They show the trucks working hard and doing the kinds of truck like...
Spinning An Eaton M112 Supercharger With A Shop Vac Is Kind Of Awesome
This is a good video for a holiday. It is largely pointless, doesn’t rally prove anything, but at the same time it is entertaining in the gearhead fashion that we love. What is it? Basically it...
Cooling Tech Video: AFCO Talks About The Pluses And Minuses Of Single And Dual Fan Shrouded Radiators
Well this is some perfect timing! Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to be talking about AFCO radiators and cooling systems a bunch as we finally put Buford T Justice back together in...
Lunatic Video: Watch The Driver Of This Altered Get It Totally Vertical ON PURPOSE!
It takes a special kind of maniac to enter his altered into a wheelstand contest in the first place but said maniac kicks it up like 50 notches when he pulls the wheelie bars off the car and gets all...
