Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Throwdown, Wheels Up! Watch This Chevelle Carry The Nose 300ft Off The Starting Line
While the world has been mesmerized by the likes of guys named Stevie Fast and Frank Soldridge pulling wheelies at 300ft, what about the good old fashioned wheelie off the starting line move that has...
Watch Frank Soldridge Drive Into And Through A Power Wheelie Like A Boss
The twin turbocharged big block Chevy powering Frank Soldridge’s Mustang is a very, very potent piece. Like all of the cars running in the nearly unlimited Radial VS the World class, it is on...
Dream Team: RideTech and Lingenfelter Partner Up For OUSCI 2016!
It’s a match made in heaven designed to give other racers hell. Yes, RideTech and Lingenfelter Performance Engineering are joining forces once more to bring the heat at the Optima Ultimate...
Watch Two Alky Funny Cars Come Within Inches Of Mashing Each Other At 260mph! Crazy!
When it comes to nightmare scenarios at the track, two cars tangling up at the stripe ranks very high on that list. Last weekend at the AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals drivers Shane Westerfield (left...
Going Racing This Year? Running Alky Or Nitro? Look Into Prolong’s 40W Nitro Racing Oil
While many people know Prolong for their extensive line of oil and fuel additives, car care products, and industrial lubricants, hardcore gearheads know that the company has had a super high quality...
This Classic Bombardier Snowmobile Sounds Awesome With An Open Piped Chevy 350 Providing The Motorvation
Shot just about two weeks ago in the mountains of Norway, this video shows a classic Bombardier snow vehicle driving around by a small village and the BangShifty angle of it is that the vehicle is...
Crazy Nitro Video: The Wild Thing Sand Drag Nitromethane Powered Trike!
In the midst of a phone conversation with a pal, we were directed to hit YouTube and search out the “Wild Thing” sand drag racing trike. Holy hell. This machine uses a four cylinder...
Watching This Mechanic Climb OUT Of A Massive Caterpillar Diesel On An Ice Breaker Is Hilarious And Amazing
There’s “getting into your work” and then there is GETTING INTO YOUR WORK. This guy falls into the second category as a mechanic on a Coast Guard ice breaker ship because in this...
Video: Watch A Massive Armored Army Truck Lose The Entire Rear End During A Braking Test
Earlier today when I was looking at the school bus that had lost the rear axle, it got me to thinking about how it could have happened. I went trolling YouTube and managed to find this video of the...
This Rat Freak Bike Has A Mercedes Diesel Drivetrain And Was Built On A Bet In 90 Days – Love It? Hate It?
This is one that will polarize people right down to the core today and we’re OK with that. All we ask is that in the comments you keep your statements from being profanity filled rants aimed at...
More Great Huntington Beach Car Show Photos – The Sun Was Out And So Were The Awesome Cars and Trucks
We’re back with more great photos from sunny SoCal and more specifically a great car show we recently attended in Huntington Beach, California. In the first group of photos there were VW vans,...
This 1964 Chevy Nova Street Freak Is One High Riding Classy Beast
Don’t call it a gasser, baby because this is a street freak! So the gasser deal is going strong these days, vans are making a pseudo come back and now we think it is time for the street freaks...
Huntington Beach Car Show Coverage: VWs, Muscle, and Classics Invade!
While the cruises and car events are getting thin in the northern reaches of the country they are still going plenty strong in Southern California and we have proof! We swung through Huntington Beach...
They Are Racing On The Salt….In Bolivia….At 13,000ft – We’re Not Kidding – Uyuni Salt Flats
Raise your hand if you knew that the world’s largest salt flat was in Bolivia! As we suspected, not that many hands came up. To be truthful, until recently ours would not have been up either...