Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Weld Racing And The Andretti Family Team Up – 120 Years Of Combined Experience Between Them
It is always cool when companies and families have a legacy together. WELD Racing is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and we all know the story of the racing Andretti family, right? The...
Get Your Horsepower On: These DRCE3 Raw Castings Are The Building Blocks Of Serious Horsepower
With all of the rumors surrounding the pro stock class lately, it is sometimes easy to forget how incredible the machines themselves are. They have been refined to a razor’s edge. Some people...
Dyno Video: Watch The Bob Book Built, 400ci NHRA Comp Eliminator Small Block That’s Headed For The Pacific Northwest Make A Rip
Now this is some small block music straight from the horsepower heavens. You are going to watch a 400ci small block Chrysler hemi engine make a rip saw of a dyno pull at Bob Book Racing Enterprises....
Meltdown Drags Craziness: Watch The Throttle Hang Wide Open On Brian Kohlman’s Nitro Hemi Coupe, Resulting In Carnage
Brian Kohlman’s nitro hemi coupe is one hell of a hot rod, sometimes it acts like it is from hell as well. Kohlman’s car uses an early Hemi on a nice load of fuel hooked to a stick shift...
We Want It And We Want It Bad: This FLU419 Small Emplacement Excavator Is Awesome If Not Totally Practical
At the end of the day, all military vehicles are tools, right? Designed to suit a job or purpose they help fighting men and women get the job done. That being said, there are LOTS of cool tools out...
We Found A Volkswagen TDI Recall Regional Holding Facility At An Old Naval Air Base In Southeastern Massachusetts
This is nuts! My son Tom’s pal Adam is as big a car guy as Tom and he made mention to him one day this summer that there were a load of VWs parked on the grounds of what used to be the South...
More High Flyin’ Stock And Super Stock Fun From Maple Grove – All Your Eastern Favorites Here!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’ve been singing the praises of stock and super stock eliminator over the last few days as we have been sharing Joe Grippo’s photos from the late spring...
Take A Few Rips Around The Goodguys PPG Nationals Autocross With The 48-Hour Camaro and Bret Voelkel
It was wall to wall awesome during the 2017 Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus on the autocross course. From the normal competition classes to the annual sponsor shootout, the best pro touring cars...
Not Quite Fellas: This 1968 Plymouth Fury Is A Sleeper Which Will Never Wake Up
Imagine my glee to find a whale of a 1968 Plymouth Fury four door listed on eBay as a “sleeper”. I was all excited to see what was under the hood. After all, we cannot get enough of big...
Howell EFI Install: We Upgrade A Classic C10 With Modern Horsepower Fed By The Easiest EFI Install Ever
(Words and photos by Matt Graves) – LS engines are absolutely the hottest thing going. You cannot deny their presence and effect they have on our hobby. They are currently being dropped into...
1987 NHRA World Finals Pit and Action Gallery: One Man’s 6,000 Mile Journey On Film
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – I can’t say it’s my best work ever when it comes to photography. Far from it and my low end scanner probably did not improve the situation, but...
#HelloJetman Is One Of The Craziest Stunts In Human History – Guys With Jetpacks In Formation With An Airbus!
Their names are Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet and they are two of the bravest and perhaps craziest human beings on planet Earth. It was Rossy who developed a wearable set of carbon fiber wings that...
Video: Car Soccer Looks To Be The Most Fun Game Ever Created!
(Words by Jason Mazzotta) – Soccer is not exactly the most popular sport in American culture, but when you add cars to the mix everyone is immediately interested, as is the case with this...
Did You Know About OPGI’s Frequent Buyer Rewards Program? You Buy and Earn Free Stuff!
You patronize certain businesses more than others for a bunch of reasons. Maybe their products are better, maybe their service is better, maybe they resolved an issue one time and earned your...