Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
2016 Gran Turismo Awards Registration Is Open! Will Your Car Be Immortalized In The Iconic Game?
Registration for the 2016 Gran Turismo Awards is open right now and if you are showing, building, or helping finish a car for SEMA 2016 then you need to throw your hat into the ring and perhaps see...
The Trailer For 24 Hour War Has Us Dying To See This Killer Looking Documentary
It is one of the greatest American racing triumphs ever. It was a battle of huge budgets, huge egos, and huge personalities. It was a fight between Italy and the USA, it was a fight between...
Weirdest Drag Car We Have Ever Found: A 1958 NSU Sport Prinz With An N/A Buick V6?!
The NSU Prinz was manufactured between 1958 and 1968 over in Germany. 20,000 of them (give or take) were sold during that decade. We are guessing a very small percentage of those cars traveled to...
The Parade Of Classic American Muscle Continues – More Great Cars From NSRA
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here is the last of the muscle car era stuff galleries that also contain photos of otherwise-unclassified images. Typically the photos of stuff that...
Watch One Of The Quickest AWD Drag Cars In The World Get Wild On The Strip – EKanoo GTR
Bahrain’s EKanoo Racing has a fleet of cars that range from big nitrous engined Pro Mods to the insane GT86 Toyota which has made repeated five second runs with a 2JZ engine. The guys also have...
Cool Video: COMP Cams Celebrates 40 Years In Business – History, Technology, and Success
If you are a BangShifter you know the name COMP cams. For four decades the company has been on the leading edge of valve train technology, camshaft development, and straight up innovation in the...
Great Chase: BMW’s New Film The Escape Is A Great Watch!
Remember about 15 years ago when BMW released a series of short films highlighting a mysterious driver that did awesome stuff, like make Madonna whiz her shorts in the back seat? Well he’s back...
Watch The 2017 Camaro ZL1 Rip Around The ‘Ring A Full 12-Seconds Faster Than The Last One
When you make a car lighter, more powerful, and pack more technology into it there’s an expectation of increased performance but the boys at Chevrolet may have really out done themselves this...
Watch The Golden Gorilla Actually Become One – The Behind The Scenes Story Of The $60,000 SGMP Win
There have been some great seasons put together by racers in the drag radial world over the last decade but it will be very difficult to best the effort put forth by DeWayne Mills and his entire crew...
The Beast Of Turin Goes On A Road Trip! No Kidding, A 300 Mile Cruise!
Since its unveiling the amazing Beast of Turnin Fiat S76 has been a sensation. The car was built in 100 years ago to shatter land speed records and it did so handily. The car was twice as fast as the...
eBay Find: Would You Pay $60,000 For 100 Four Speed Cores? Vintage Stuff And Lots Of It
This is an interesting eBay ad and question. There are 100 four speed cores for sale from this one seller and if you are in the restoration business it seems like this transaction may make sense but...
More Great Hot Rods and Customs From NSRA 2016 – They Keep On Coming!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – One thing to appreciate on the early cars is how many different customizing touches work on the body styles. Chopping, sectioning, channeling, filling,...
More Awesome Cars and Hot Rods From The Street Machinery Open House
(Photos by Brooks/Ferrer) – When Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer got home from their trip to the Street Machinery shop in Ohio, they could hardly contain themselves over how great the cars, the...
Watch Jay Payne Wipe Out The Tree In A Funny Car At Las Vegas Circa 2015
As I’ll be spending the better part of a month in and around the greater Las Vegas area starting on Wednesday, I have been thinking of some entertaining stuff that has happened at The Strip...