Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
The RideTech Power Tour Report – Check Out Their Experience So Far!
Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour is something that began as a humble little event and has grown into a literal monster with thousands and thousands of participants, the famed “Long Haul...
Live Your Classic Le Mans Dreams In This 1969 Corvette Road Racer – Awesome Car!
While we can all fantasize about racing around Le Mans and swapping positions with some of the greatest racing drivers in history, the fact is that we ain’t gonna be there and likely neither...
This 1988 Hurst/Olds Came From The Collection Of Jack Watson And May Be The Most Rare Of Them All
It may seem completely insane but the 1988 Hurst/Olds may be the rarest of them all. Certainly not the most valuable of the examples that were produced for the better part of 40 years in one form or...
Tour Nebraska Coverage: Hundreds of Hot Rods Hit The Highway In The Heartland
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – Hot Rod Magazine’s famous Power Tour is now in full swing. But, last weekend was another classic car tour right in the state of Nebraska. The...
Watch This Beautiful Little Brazilian Chevy Truck Haul Tail At The Drags – Turbo Inliner Action!
We have showed you lots of drag racing videos from South America over the last year or so and we’re going to continue that trend. Why? These guys are as hard charging as the racers here in the...
Wanna Cheap, Scary Fast, Scary Looking LS Chevette? Here’s Your E-Ticket Ride – Needs Some Work
It is ratty, it is cheap, it is set up to go like the wind and scare the daylights out of everyone in or around it. This is a low-buck LS Chevette and it is for sale right now. BangShifter Steve...
Le Wreckage Video: Here’s Every Crash From The 2015 24 Hours Of Le Mans – Fender Benders To Calamities!
The singular key to winning a 24 Hour Endurance race like the 2015 24 Hours Of Le Mans is surviving until the end. That is also the most difficult thing to do and as history has shown, Le Mans is...
Would You Like Your Hellcat Chopped Or Mashed? We’ve Got Options For You!
So we have recently become obsessed with the IAAI (Insurance Auto Auctions Inc) website because they have zillions of cars for sale that have ended up in their possession through less than happy...
eBay Find: This 1957 International S-120 Panel Truck Is A Heavenly 4×4 That Looks Like Hell
If this thing is not absolutely ripe to be the central character in an episode of Roadkill, I am not sure what else is. Unique in the fact that there cannot be many of them left on Earth, oozing...
eBay Find: A Never Used, All Aluminum, $26,000, ZL-1 Chevy Bare Block
The words “Chevy” and ultra-rare usually don’t run very close together. After all, the bowtie brand produced millions and millions of cars during even their slow years back in the...
King Of The Streets 2016 Coverage: The Baddest No-Prep Race In America? You Decide!
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Chi-Town’s King of the Streets 2016 event, or KOTS, runs based on a simple philosophy: No prep, no problem. Running the baddest street cars in the...
Inferno Photos: The Big Red Camaro Burns In Testing – Pikes Peak Hopes Go Up In Smoke
A day of hardcore testing at Buttonwillow Raceway in California turned into a nightmare for the Big Red Camaro team on Monday as the car burst into flames and suffered a major league fire. The burn...
Nostalgia Nirvana! Here’s A Load Of Photos Featuring Straight Axle Cars Sitting In The Pits
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Quiet cars again. This time it’s the straight-axle cars. I won’t refer to them as ‘gassers’ because though these do run on gas….having a...
