Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Chevy Van – Sammy Johns (1973)
The 1970s were about vans, chicks, and getting busy with chicks in vans. Sammy Johns understood this trend and released the song Chevy Van in 1973. Although it wasn’t an immediate hit, the song...
Bitchin’ 1970s Photos From New England Dragway – Willie Borsch, Muldowney, More!
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – These photos were taken at the big AHRA meets the track hosted during that era and as you’ve seen and will continue to see, they drew the biggest names the...
Watch The Truly Great NHRA Pro Stock Final From Houston ’94 – The WJ/Scott Geoffrion Battle!
As I’ll be at the NHRA national event in Baytown, Texas in a few weeks. I am working on my notes and prep stuff this week so I am locked and loaded to go down there. It is impossible to think...
OPGI Love My Car Sale Ends Tonight – A Valentine’s Day Sale For Your Car! Save Big, Hurry!
Yes, today is Valentine’s Day 2019, traditionally a day where guys step up to make their girlfriends and wives feel special and express their love. You can do all that junk but you need to...
2019 NHRA Lucas Oil Winternationals: A Flurry Of Fuel Cars On The Strip
It was a chilly weekend at the 2019 Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals with temperatures barely escaping the 50-degree range during the day. The result of this was a race track that proved to be tricky...
2019 Pittsburgh World Of Wheels Photo Coverage: One Last Blast Of Images From The Big Show
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Annnnd we’re back! Back with more 2019 Pittsburgh World Of Wheels photo coverage that runs the gamut from classics to super cars and loads of stuff in the...
Check Out Duncan Pittaway Racing The Wheels Off The Beast Of Turin – Looks Like Fun!
We have pretty much run every single video that has ever been created featuring the amazing Beast Of Turin. That’s the massive 28-liter Fiat race car that Englishmen Duncan Pittaway spearheaded...
Another Iron In The Fire: New L8T 6.6L Gas Engine For Chevy Trucks Is Stout, Iron Block and All
Perhaps shooed along by the announcement of Ford’s new 7.3L gas engine for their 2020 heavy duty trucks, Chevrolet has released the specs on the new L8T gas engine for Chevy trucks. This engine...
‘Vette Motor For Sale: This Is Where It All Began For America’s Sports Car
It is amazing to think that the early Corvettes that Chevrolet produced did not so much as have a cross flow cylinder head. It is also amazing to think about that the weak engines that these cars...
Watch Doug Kalitta’s Dramatic Top Fuel Win At The NHRA Winternationals – The Streak Is OVER
It was an awesome ending to a long race. Doug Kalitta and Steve Torrence were the last two guys to go rip-roaring down the track a the 2019 Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals. Torrence was trying to keep...
2019 Pittsburgh World of Wheels Photo Coverage: Horrid Weather And Awesome Cars!
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Mike Brooks and thousand of his Pittsburgh area hot rodding pals kept a steel city tradition alive recently by attending the 2019 Pittsburgh World of Wheels. This...
2019 NHRA Winternationals Photo Coverage: It Was Cool, It Was Fast, and It Was FUN
Don’t let the outwardly sunny appearance of these photos trick you into thinking it was some sort of tropical paradise in Southern California for the 59th running of the Lucas Oil NHRA...
Vintage Drag Video: The 1972 Australian Drag Racing Nationals – Check Out The Awesome Cars
Boy is this an awesome snapshot or what?! This professionally made film from 1972 features some action at the long defunct Surfer’s Paradise International Raceway. The drag strip that the...
Video: Watch This Nasty, Twin-Turbocharged Mud Bogger Exit The Pit Violently Stage Left!
The Mud Down in T-Town was one of the more brilliant schemes that Keith Haney and Todd Martin, the operators of Tulsa Raceway Park came up with. Using a piece of open property at their track, they...