Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
This Rambler American Has A Turbocharged Jeep 4.0L Inlinx Six, A T-5, And Our Admiration
This is so BangShifty we can hardly stand it. Thanks to Erich Von Dussen we have this amazingly clean and awesome Rambler American to show you. On the outside the thing has 100% factory looks with...
This 1972 International-Harvester Travelette 1210 Is Close To Perfect But Not Quite – We Still Love It
Now this is some BangShifty coolness for you! How about a 1972 International-Harvester Travelette 1210? This tough as nails crew cab is largely stock and that’s A-OK with us. The previous...
Drag Day! Cool Cars and Action Photos From A Busy Sunday At Byron Dragway In Illinois
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Sunny warm Sunday, sounds like a trip to the drag strip is in order. So off to Byron Dragway I went. The program promised a visit by Midwest Super Comp...
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...
