Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
2015 LA Roadsters Show: The Historic Event Keeps Getting Better – Here’s Roadster Heaven!
2015 marks the 51st running of the LA Roadtsers show and 36 of those years the show has been held at the Pomona Fairplex where so many other great shows are held throughout the years. The event is...
Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Cars, Trucks, And Coolness Galore In Bowling Green
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While the weather was not cooperative during the weekend in Bowling Green, it did not take the wind out of anyone’s sales or dampen spirits at all during...
BASTARDS: Thieves Steal $1,000,000 In Race Engines And Parts From Charlie Buck Racing Engines – Help Find ‘Em!
We have to thank Jeff Lee for sending us a tip to a story that has our blood boiling. Charlie Buck Racing Engines has been a force to be reckoned with in the nitrous and heavy duty drag racing engine...
Watch Tom Meents Attempt (And Nearly Land) The First Monster Truck Front Flip Jump
(By Jason Mazzotta) – Tom Meents has forever been known as a wild man behind the wheel, from his early days in mud trucks throughout his time in the Maximum Destruction monster trucks and...
Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion Coverage: Our Photo Blast Begins NOW!
(PHOTOS BY BRYAN MCTAGGART) – While mother nature doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with the plan at the 2015 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we’re on the grounds and...
Thornhill Dragway Nostalgia Drag Photos: Freaky Funny Cars, Straight Axle Mafia Coolness
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So what we have here are the Straight-Axle Mafia and some other classic-style racers that came to play old-time drags. The racing was 1/8th mile and was...
LINGENFELTER HAS FATHER’S DAY DEALS ON CAR CARE PRODUCTS THAT YOUR DAD NEEDS!
We know you love your pop and that you want to get him something neat for Father’s Day. Spoiler alert: socks, ties, shoes, shaving products, and gag gifts aren’t going to get the job...
Vintage Drag Video: What It Was Like to Be Two Regular Guys Running An Injected Nitro Car In The Early 70s
Chances are that you’ve never heard of the Best and Gordon Purple Haze A/Fuel dragster from the early 1970s. Don’t worry, you are not alone because we hadn’t either, and frankly...
2015 NHRA New England Nationals: Our Last Great Photo Collection – Drivers, Crowds, Racing Action
(Photos by Rich Pasley) – The second of a three race back to back to back stretch on the east coast for NHRA teams the NHRA New England Nationals was another success for the venerable drag...
Amazing eBay Find! This Quadruple Four Barrel, Straight 8 Powered Street Roadster Was A 1970s NHRA Killer
We see lots of cool old drag cars around here but this one is in a league all of its own. For sale on eBay is this absolutely awesome former NHRA street roadster class machine that can in the C/SR...
Hard Guys Nitro Funny Car Heads To IHRA Nitro Jam At MIR With High Expectations
After a winter of building engines, upgrading the car, and testing in recent weeks the Hard Guys nitro funny car is ready for its first true test of the 2015 season at this weekend’s IHRA NItro...
Racer With Your Social Media Game On? RynoFund Is A new Site Where Your Hard Work Could Result In Support
It is funny how life works, sometimes. Take Chad and I for example. A chance meeting at Drag Week in 2005 resulted in a friendship and it resulted in us having a mutual friend in Freiburger....
Drag Action: Our Last Blast From The Mega Mopar Action Race At Maple Grove Raceway
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – It was a great weekend of showing, racing, and hanging out at Maple Grove Raceway for the Mega Mopar Action weekend. From the SS/AH cars that blistered the strip and...
Is the Great Race Coming to Your Town? The Ultimate Route 66 Adventure Involves 2,400 Miles in pre-’72 Cars
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We cover many types of racing, but what you may not often see is “time, speed, endurance rallying”. It’s a rare form of racing, but there are a...