Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Audio Gold: Listen To These 1960s Drag Strip Radio Ads From Indiana’s Chandler Raceway Park
Now this is some magically awesome stuff. You are about to listen to a collection of several drag strip ads from Indiana’s Chandler Raceway Park. These were made back in the early and middle...
Hot Hatch History: This Look Back At The Hot Hatches Of The 1970s Is Great – No, The Golf GTI Was Not First
The idea of a “hot hatchback” has been part of the automotive landscape from the birth of the Mini-Cooper and this video from the fine folks at Goodwood which outlines the history of the...
Watch The 1998 Four Wheeler Top Truck Challenge: Killer Event And Its When The World Met Quagmyr!
The Four Wheeler Top Truck Challenge was one of the coolest magazine competitions that ever existed and it introduced the world to some cool trucks over the years. It was basically Drag Week for...
Wonderfully Cheesy: Tournament Of Thrills Is A 50+ Year Old Video Featuring Awesome Traveling Stunt Drivers
It’s pretty crazy how “entertainment” changes, right? Back about 50 years ago, ABC’s Wide World of Sports would show up at a dusty circle track on a fairgrounds somewhere and...
Weirdest Vintage Car Review Ever: Watch A 1974 VW Dasher Get Thrashed On
The crew of Car and Track, the show that did the coolest television car reviews of the 1970s must have taken one look at the 1974 VW Dasher and thought it was dropped there from outer space. Not that...
Drag Strip Time Travel: This Footage From Edgewater Sports Park In The Early 1970s Is Fantastic
Now here’s the good stuff! You are going to travel back in time to the early 1970s at Ohio’s Edgewater Sports Park to see a load of great cars attacking the historic track’s...
Watch The 1970 World Figure 8 Championship From Islip Speedway As Shown On Wide World Of Sports!
Figure 8 racing has been a staple at stock car tracks for many decades now and the reason it has survived is because it is exciting to watch, it is relatively cheap to participate in, and it keeps...
Watch This 1970s Can-Am Big Block Chevy Rip Out 750hp On The Dyno
Bruce McLaren was one of the most gifted, talented, driven, and respected men in the world of racing during his time on this Earth. His company, driven by the creative genius of its leader was a...
A Trip Back In Time: This Incredible Drag Racing Film Shows Guys Like Connie Kalitta, EJ Potter, The Arfons Boys and Others As Kids!
Just when you think you have seen it all! The amazing thing about video footage like this is that it mimics the whole “barn find” car deal because when someone drags some incredible thing...
The Bitter End: This Video Of Chrysler Turbine Cars Being Destroyed Is Hard To Watch
A while back I posted a video of a1960s Chrysler turbine car being road tested at the Chrysler proving grounds. The video was cool because we saw the car hauling around the track and rip roaring over...
Back To The Track: This Look Back At The 1990 Shelby Can-Am Shows A Program That Launched Careers
As much as we like to think we know stuff about racing around here, sometimes we are confronted by the fact that we don’t know as much as we’d like. Proof is this video below which shows...
This 1950s/1960s Sand Car Video Is Awesome, Flopping Jumps And All
In today’s world you can pick up the phone, spend $100,000 and buy yourself a completely insane sand car to dominate the dunes or whatever other surface you can imagine. Such was not always the...
Video: This Freaky Straight Eight Is Blown And Beyond Comprehension On Some Level
We were looking for information and videos on a particularly old straight eight engine the other day and what we found was this! You are looking at a pretty old video by modern standards. This one...
Watch This Scale Porsche Flat Six Fire Up And Make Really Wild Noises!
We love scale engines of all shapes and sizes, including ones that aren’t in a V-shape with eight cylinders screaming. Take this incredible Porsche flat six for example that was hand crafted by...