Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
The Rest Of The Story On The Girl Who Drove The Big Rig Onto The Historic Bridge And Destroyed It – Honestly Fascinating
(Photo: Garet Cobb/Associated Press) – We were admittedly very rough on the 23-year old truck driver that piloted her big rig onto an historic Indiana bridge rated at six tons capacity and...
Caution: Watching These Videos Of Brazilian Formula Truck Crashes Will Likely Leave YOU Sore
(By Eric Rood) – In the U.S., we’re accustomed to big wrecks on super speedways with 3,500-pound, 200 mph stock cars. That’s a lot of energy to dissipate and, by and large, most stock cars...
On Any Given Tuesday: A Great Short Film On Buddies, Hot Rods, Autocrossing, And Competition
If you love your pro touring trucks, chances are that you’ve laid eyes on Marcel Venable’s cool C10 called Foxy Cleopatra. The truck has been covered on the web, in magazines, it has been...
Chris Bell’s Last Lap Crash During The Camping World Truck Race At Daytona Was Incredible – He’s OK
Chris Bell has likely spent lots of his life dreaming about making headlines at Daytona while racing in a stock car. He never dreamed of making them the way he did to kick off NASCAR’s biggest...
Watch The Murder Nova Wheelstand To A Win Round Win X275 During Lights Out 7 – On The Bumper At The Eighth!
(Video Credit: Free Life Films, PocoJang, 1320Video YouTube Channels) – As if things were not nutty enough at Lights Out 7 this week with the massive crowds, crazy quick runs, and wall banging...
Cool Parts: We Found This Old Ford Inline Six Hilborn Injector For Sale – We Never Knew They Made One!
The nooks and crannies of the high performance speed parts industry present some pretty interesting finds on a regular basis. There’s always something that we see and think, “Why did they...
This Is The Greatest Vintage Road Racing Video Ever: Camaro VS The World In 1971 Race
I love announcing drag races. I love everything about that activity but I do harbor a deep secret that this video brought to the surface. See, the first ever racing events I announced were SCCA road...
Watch The Weirdest Final Round Drag Race We’ve Ever Seen – It Turns Into A Footrace!
We were tired just watching this hilarious race from the Perth Motorplex 400 Thunder event in Australia. What you are going to see is the final round of pro stock motorcycle go totally and weirdly...
eBay Find: This Wide-Body, Minilite Equipped Bugeye Sprite Is Awesome And Needs More Power
It isn’t all muscle cars and lumbering trucks that fill my list of automotive wants. In fact, there are some little cars on the list as well. I’d love to have an MG GT, Sunbeam Tiger,...
Officially Undead! Heartland Park Topeka Announces Weekly Racing Program
Yes, we know that the sprawling Heartland Park Topeka facility was technically saved when it came under new ownership a couple of months ago but the reality is that with the announcement of weekly...
Watch This Crazy Diesel Powered Nova Wreck Hard At The Top End Of Woodburn Drag Strip
Rob Coddens has long been known as one of the best guys in the country at making big power with the GM Duramax diesel engine. He had a series of ever quicker pickup trucks before he graduated to a...
Mud Bog Time Machine: Let’s Take A Trip Back To The Gumbo Of Hennessey, Oklahoma 1983/84
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the second in a new, throwback (wow…) series I put together from my photo archive. First stop is a mud bog near Hennessey, OK situated on the...
Charlie Cooper’s Turbocharged Cobra Jet Is A Real Rocket – See It Run Here
(Video Credit: VictoryRedColorado YouTube channel) – Those of you that are really up on your drag racing geekery will know that the quickest “legal” Mustang Cobra Jet in the NHRA...
BangShift Speed Records: A Brief History Of Plymouth Duster Jingles Past and Past-er
(By Eric Rood) – Plymouth used the Duster moniker not once but twice in the space of a couple decades and managed to churn out some quality of-their-time jingles for the respective...