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Author Archive: Brian Lohnes

Racepak’s Free 8-Week Webinar Series Starts Tomorrow At 5pm Eastern – This Is AWESOME

Ok now THIS is awesome! Racepak’s free 8-week webinar series starts today at 5:00pm Pacific time. Watching is as easy as clicking on the link below and checking it out. You can see the schedule...

The Baytown Rumble: Elite Motorsports and Gray Motorsports Crews Brawl In Texas

Well, it got weird in Houston. A long simmering feud between Alex Laughlin’s racing operation and Gray Motorsports boiled over and resulted in the Elite Motorsports and Gray Motorsports crews...

Big Hit: Watch Bob Rahaim’s Rough J&A Service NHRA Pro Mod Ride At Houston

If you are an NHRA J&A Service Pro Mod fan you know that there was some true insanity during the 2016 NHRA event in Houston, Texas. Three major league wrecks headlined that race and competitors...

Viva Las Vegas 2017 The Finale! A Final Blast Of Images From The Event – From Race Cars To Step Vans

(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re not sure we have ever had a gallery of photos from an event that featured race cars and step vans in the same collection but this one does. That...

This Petrolicious Film Takes A Look At A Guy And His Old School Land Rover As He Drives The Dunes At Pismo And Splashes In The LA River

I have long espoused that Petrolicious is one of the best channels on YouTube for car videos and they continue to crank out tasteful, interesting, and beautiful work as proven by this video that...

Viva Las Vegas 2017: What Happens At A Car Show In Vegas DOES NOT Stay In Vegas

(Photos by Wes Allison) – If that lead photo does not make you smile, you are in the wrong place. That’s hot rodding right there! Sure the engine probably does not make humongous power...

This 1979 GMC 3500 Cheyenne Pickup Truck Wrecker Has A Big Block, A Four Speed, and A Holmes 440 In The Bed

One of the vehicles I remember most around down growing up was an early 1980s Ford F-350 pickup truck with a wrecker setup in the bed. It belonged to a small service station and it got worked to...

Venezuelan Government Seizes GM Plant And All Assets – GM Ceases Operations In Venezuela

If you are any sort of follower of world events you know that things In Venezuela have not been good for a long time but recently they have been on a rapid decline even from those crummy levels. The...

Crazy Video: This Peterbilt Dragged A Maxima At Least Four Miles Up A Mountain Pass!

If you have ever driven over the Cajon Pass in California you know that it is a winding, climbing slog of a drive to get over if you are in anything underpowered. Even if you are in something with...

Combine A 1996 Lincoln And A 1942 Packard And What Do You Get? A Result As Bad As You’d Think

Someone, somewhere woke up one morning and decided that what the world needed was a car which combined the utter crummy nature of a 1996 Lincoln with the giant rounded backside of a 1942 Packard. You...

Viva Las Vegas 2017 Coverage: More Fresh, Never Before Published Photos Of The Show

(Photos by Wes Allison) – One of the neat things about our Viva Las Vegas 2017 coverage is that you are kind of getting a walk though automotive design history with every group of photos. The...

1320Video Footage Of The Crazy Boogeyman Crash At No Prep Mayhem Is Nuts – On-Board Go Pros

Here’s the latest footage we have seen featuring the crazy Boogeyman wreck at the No Prep Mayhem race last weekend. Kyle and the team from 1320Video captured this angle and it is stunning any...

Put Your Lungs on The Dyno: Right2Breathe® to Offer Free Asthma Screenings during NHRA Four-Wide Nationals

Our drag racin’ pal Joe Morrison who spearheads the efforts of the Right2Breathe organization sent us a note about the fact that Right2Breathe will be offering a “lung dyno” at the...

Day of Wagon Infamy eBay Find: This 1957 Chevy Shorty Wagon Is Done Right But So Wrong

First the Caprice and now this 1957 Chevy Shorty Wagon. This truly is the day of wagon infamy on BangShift. After a weeks long hot streak of coolness we run the ship around on these two pieces....