Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
AutoMeter Direct-Fit Dash Kits Provide A Custom Install Look Without The Custom Install Price
If you are looking to revamp your interior, better your instrumentation, or finish the dashboard of a project you are building AutoMeter may have the perfect solution for you. The Direct-Fit complete...
Bonneville Speed Week 2017: News and Photos – The Speed Demon Crew Pulled It Out!
(Photos by Chad and Cole Reynolds) – So we have more photos for you below to cruise. Those photos will show you a lot of stuff but they will not show you what happened yesterday. Long story...
Bonneville Speed Week 2017: The Salt Is Still Flying On The Massive Salt Flats In Utah
(Photos by Chad and Cole Reynolds) – We have a good news/bad news scenario for you here. Chad and I have both hit the bricks and left the massive salt flats in Utah, which is the bad news. The...
Edelbrock Expands High Performance LS Water Pump Line With New Applications
It’s summer time and there’s no time like this to test out the capability of your cooling system. If you are running a high performance LS engine and relying on a stock pump after making...
Jealousy Gallery: We Tour The Iron Gate Garage Condos Outside Of Chicago
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – I stopped by Iron Gate Garage Condos in Naperville (just outside of Chicago)this morning for their once a month “open ” house where the owners of...
Cool Old Stuff Gallery: The Northern Illinois Steam Power Club Show and Threshing Bee!
(By Greg Rourke) – It’s the second weekend of August, and the air north of Sycamore, Illinois is thick with coal smoke…it must be time for the Northern Illinois Steam Power Club...
Speed Week LIVE Audio Feed Link Here – Listen To All The Action and Keep Up With The Stories
We’re late on the trigger with this one but there’s a live audio feed of the announcers at Speed Week. You can listen to it by clicking the link below. This is absolutely the best way to...
Bonneville Speed Week 2017: More Engines, More Cars, More Trucks, and More Cool
(Photos by Cole and Chad Reynolds) – One of the things that sets Bonneville Speed Week aside from any other racing event on Earth is the purity of the competition and the diversity of the...
Interesting eBay Find: Want To Buy An SB2 Built By Dale Earnhardt Enterprises That’s Only Ever Been Run On The Dyno?
The SB2 small block Chevrolet is considered by many to be the ultimate factory engineered version of the venerable engine family that was introduced in 1955. The SB2 first appeared in the NASCAR...
Would You Rather: 1970s Luxury Barge TV Commercial Edition! 1970 Lincoln Vs 1974 Cadillac
While it seems weird, I had a conversation on the salt yesterday with some pals and the topic of Cadillacs came up. We all agreed that the only thing you need to do with a Caddy from the middle 1960s...
The Scoop! Here Are The Cars That Will Be Running For Records Today At Bonneville
Today was a challenging day on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The only thing you need to know to understand that is the fact that there are only four cars who will be running for records on Tuesday. So...
Engines! Here’s A Gallery Of Very Diverse Power Plants On The Salt At Bonneville Speed Week 2017
Engines. They are the thumping lifeblood of Bonneville Speed Week 2017. Part of the reason people love this place and the sport of land speed racing so much is that creativity is not punished as it...
Half A Hairy Hemi Video: Watch The Steinegger and Eshenbaugh F/Fuel Lakester Haul On Nitro With A One Headed Hemi!
I’m not much of a hunter but I know guys that are. They tell stories about times where they have come close to bagging a trophy but missed it by that much. Timing is everything, even at...
This 383 Stroker Small Block Powered, Crown Conversion Mid-Engined Corvair Is Awesome!
Corvairs are cool but Crown Conversion Corvairs are cooler. Why? Crown was a company that developed a kit to bolt a small block Chevy into a Corvair where the back seat would be. With the engine...