Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
2015 LA Roadsters Show: Dozens Of Cool Classic Station Wagons In SoCal
While the roadsters are the main draw and the reason for the show to have been founded more than a half century ago, there are more than 1,000 “other” cars that show up at the event every...
Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion: Photo Coverage From Beech Bend Raceway Continues
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – While it wasn’t the greatest weather weekend in the history of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, the faithful showed up to brave the elements and...
Joey Severance’s Wild Save At The NHRA Dallas Event Needs To Be Seen To Be Believed! (Video)
This here is some absolutely wild video that ends happily, against all odds. The dude you’ll see go on one of the craziest non-crashing passes in top alcohol dragster history is Joey Severance....
RideTech Father’s Day Contest! ENTER TODAY And Your Dad Can Win Some Sweet Shocks! HURRY!
Today is Father’s Day and that means it is time to honor your pop! Hopefully you are spending some time with him and maybe you even got him a gift. There’s one last thing you can do and...
This Crazy Triple Engine 1985 Custom Panther Is One LONG Cruiser – Would You Roll In It?
This is a 1985 Custom Panther that was obviously designed and conceived by a crazy person who enjoyed cartoons because how else in the world would someone dream this up? The thing literally looks...
HISTORY! Alan O’Brien’s Twin-Turbo AMC Dragster Makes 5-second Pass – Quickest and Fastest AMC Ever
There was some history made at the NHRAV Thunder Valley Nationals when Alan O’Brien charged down the quarter mile in his awesome AMC powered dragster and stopped the clocks in 5.997 seconds at...
Near Disaster Video: Another Calamity From The Legal Street Race In Oklahoma – This Time A Repair Truck Causes Chaos
(By Jason Mazzotta) – We have already seen plenty of action from the crazy legal street race on Route 66 in El Reno, Oklahoma, including the near flattening of a crewman when two cars came...
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...