Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Big News: Shane Tecklenburg Joins Forces With Elite Motorsports And Modern Racing For E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Season!
Well now, THIS is big time news for the world of NHRA E3 Spark Plugs pro modified action. Renowned tuner Shane Tecklenburg has joined forced with Elite Motorsports and Modern Racing for the 2018...
Bloodhound SSC Project Saved By British Entrepreneur – Undisclosed Amount Paid For Assets and Program
Well this is potentially good news as the Bloodhound SSC project, a gazillion dollar, decade long quest to build a 1,000mph has been sold to a British entrepreneur and saved from the ignominy of...
Monster Garage: Watch This Quarter Million Pound Komatsu D475 Get Rebuilt In Time Lapse
While the world can no longer produce a toaster that is repairable in the event of a problem, we can still make some bad ass heavy equipment that is designed to be serviced and rebuilt at regular...
Killer Video: Ride With Kyle Larson As He Rips A Sprint Car Around Antioch Speedway
Outside of the drag strip the one type of racing that really knocks us on our ass is sprint car racing. We do not get a chance to see a ton of it in person but we love living vicariously through...
AMAZING HISTORICAL VIDEO: A WING WALKER FROM THE TWENTIES CHANGES THE WHEEL ON A PLANE IN MID-FLIGHT
While we have our “extreme” athletes these days, back in the 1920s people just did insane things for fun. Proof of that fact is contained in this video of a woman named Gladys Ingle, who...
The American Powertrain Monday Shift: Ride In A 1963 Impala Hardtop As It Attacks The Strip In Australia
Cool car, cool people, cool video. This video feature that centers on a 1963 Impala Hardtop as it attacks the strip in Australia is fantastic. The car has a rowdy small block in it and a Jerico four...
Traveling Al Frisco: Petrolicious Looks At A Truly Cool 1971 Porsche 911 That Has Lived A Couple Of Lives
Those of us that love cars talk about them as if they were somehow human in many ways. We look at their features, their foibles, we think about their strain and toil when they are driven hard. Long...
2018 East Coast Indoor Nationals Photos: Big Horsepower, Cool Cars, And A Refuge From The Cold
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The East Coast Indoor Nationals have been going for nearly 30 years now and each winter hot rodders in the Mid-Atlantic part of the county know that the Timonium...
Great Video: This Profile Of Mark Micke, Jason Carter, And The World’s Most Bad To The Bone 1978 Malibu Rules!
Paul Bunyan had Babe, his trusty blue ox. Jason Carter and Mark Micke have their blue 1978 Chevy Malibu, which stands as the baddest Radial vs The World car in the history of the class and one of the...
Holley Introduces New Brawler Street and Race Carbs In Black With A Red Billet Color Combo
Holley’s Brawler line of carbs has been embraced by hot rodders and racers across the country as they are made of quality aluminum, they feature all the great tuning features that one would...
Photo Coverage: JJ Da Boss Arm Drop Drags At Cottonwood Dragway – An Alabama Night, A Full Track, And Wild Action
(Photos by James Champion) – We’re back with more great photos from the recent visit that JJ Da Boss and his band of merry men (and women) made to Cottonwood Dragway in Alabama. It was...
This Is Awesome: A Complete, Soup To Nuts Pro Mod Run Tutorial Hosted By Stevie Fast Jackson – So Great
There are videos out there that talk about how to drive a drag race car but there has never been a more in-depth video made about making a run in a supercharged pro mod than this one. Literally every...
Listen Up: The Boys From The Round Six Podcast Had Us On – Pretty Hilarious Gearhead Fun
The guys on the Round Six podcast have a good thing going. Each episode they take someone from the gearhead realm and put them through the wringer with emotional questions, highly charged language,...
