Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Bad Brad’s Nitro Photos From Famoso! Some Great Funny Car, Top Fuel, and AAFA March Meet Shots
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – We’re back today with some more nitro photos from the 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet. Brad Klaassen was out there with his buddies running a car and he also...
Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs: More Cool Cars, Classics, Hot Rods, Trucks!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Stick with us to the end of this series. Some good stuff even if the lighting is marginal in some areas. Still in Survivors Alley we waited for some of...
Barnstormin’: A Full Drag Strip Is A Happy Drag Strip, But Tracks Cannot Rest On Their Laurels
2017 has gotten off to a flying start on just about every level in the sport of drag racing. Since late January I have been at a track just about every weekend and the events at said tracks have...
Wild Video: Watch A Guy Attempt The First Motorcycle Parachute Jump In 1926 – Fails and Lives
That amazing moment captured in time above requires some explanation. The rider is a guy named Fred Osborne and what he’s doing is hurtling himself off the cliff atop a motorcycle with a...
Hate Boy Bands? The New Kids On The Block 1987 Camaro Convertible Will Solidify Those Feelings
The New Kids On The Block were a sensation in the middle 1980s all the way into the 1990s and frankly everyone reading this probably hated them. They were a Boston area group that all came from a...
2017 Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs Coverage: Check Out Our First Batch Of Photos
(By Doug Gregory) – Indoor car show season is in full swing and while race tracks are making preparations for opening we’re getting our car fix by taking in a few car shows and visiting with...
Crazy Cadillac: Believe It Or Not, This Cadillac Has Been A Freaky Truck Since New
(By Greg Rourke) – There’s no shortage of incomplete projects for sale on the Internet. Guys get in over their heads, life happens and they run out of money, wife wants her car in the...
Aeromotive Fuel Systems and Waterman Racing Components Expand Marketing Partnership in 2017
Here’s some good news! The crew at Aeromotive and Waterman Racing Components have stepped up and expanded their marketing partnership with Heartland Park Topeka in 2017. Obviously that...
Kris Krabill Parts Ways With Austin & O’Brien Racing Team – Runner Up Car At March Meet Driverless
After a successful but ultimately fiery 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet driver Kris Krabill has announced his departure from the Austin & O’Brien Racing Team. The guys made the rain delayed...
This Inside Look At The Target550 Land Speed Effort Is A Peek Into The Unforgiving Realm Of The Streamliner
Fittingly, as I type this the backdrop behind me is a white out. This video looks inside the Treit and Davenport Target500 land speed streamliner and it is both a glimpse at the mechanical and the...
Dodge Reveals What’s In The Challenger Demon Tool Box – Cool Snap-On Stuff!
One of the things that we have been interest in since it as first mentioned is the Challenger Demon tool box that comes with the car. Obviously we have spilled all the beans we’ve known about...
AFCO Cooling Releases Host Of New Heat Exchangers For Modern GM Muscle Cars
One of the most interesting things in the way engines have changed over the last, say, 50 years is on the cooling front. More power from less displacement means that engines work harder than ever and...
Road Trippin’: A Quick Return To Watt’s Repair & Auto Salvage Means More Parts, More Photos, And Picking Up A Pick Up
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – I certainly I had not planned to go back to Watt’s Repair & Auto Salvage so quickly, but this past weekend I was being dragged back to that...
