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Author Archive: Brian Lohnes

This 1955 Chevy Gasser Is No Recreation It Is The Real McCoy And We Can Personally Vouch For It

I may not be so good at remembering the names of my wife and kids but man I can’t forget race cars, especially cool ones and that is the reason I can personally vouch for what the seller of...

This Hilarious Craigslist Ad Is The Best Listing For A Riding Lawnmower Ever – Pure Genuis!

The art of the hilarious craigslist ad is fickle. Often times we get tipped off to these things and they turn out to be complete rip off/copy cat postings that someone else came up with. Other times...

Watch Thomas Fletcher’s Incredible Top End 360 In A Stock Eliminator Camaro From NHRA Epping 2014

(Editor’s note: This weekend I’ll be up in the tower calling the action at the NHRA national event at my home track in Epping, New Hampshire. The craziest thing that happened up there...

Bobby Johnson’s Mid-Engined 1970 Mustang With Ford GT Power May Be The Most Awesome Car On Power Tour

(Photos by Jeff Lee/HammerHead IRS) – When people decide to do unnatural things to classic cars it normally doesn’t turn out the way they (or anyone else) wanted. It takes some...

Event Coverage: The DFW Performance Trucks Shootout At The Texas Motorplex – Bg Speeds, Big Fun

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Whether they had the wheels up or they were cruising the pits low and slow, the trucks of the 2015 Dallas-Ft. Worth Performance Truck shootout were cool. The event...

Ride In The Cab With Rob MacGregor In His Famed Hellboy Truck – A RideTech Equipped Terror!

The 1968-1972 Chevy C10 is one of the hottest commodities in the pro touring world right now and Rob MacGregor is one of the guys you can blame for that. Rob was on the bleeding edge of the truck...

Missouri Police Respond To Plane Crash Only To Find Shockwave Jet Peterbilt – This Is AWESOME

In a news story that we literally could not have made up ourselves, concerned neighbors contacted the authorities when they thought a plane had crashed on a local Missouri farm only for the...

Pulling Coverage: The NTPA Mule City 300 Was A Blow Out Good Time (Maybe Not For This Guy)

(Photos by David Whealon/DW Photos) – Yesterday David Whealon dropped all kinds of results and knowledge on us about who won each class at the 2015 NTPA Mule City 300 held on the grounds of...

2015 Gasser Reunion and Nostalgia Drags Coverage – Great Cars And Action From Thompson

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – For more than a decade now, nostalgia drag racing and gasser fans have flocked to Thompson, Ohio for the gasser reunion each Spring. This year was no different and we...

Weirdest Swap Ever? 1947 Lincoln Model H On A 1989 Cadillac Allante Chassis! Bizarro World

In the realm of the strangest vehicle mashups ever, this one has to be a top ten player. For starters, both of the cars are reasonably rare. Lincoln only made less than 20,000 cars total in 1947 so...

The Bone Shaker 1957 Ford Gasser Is For Sale! Injected Boss 429, Four Speed Trans – Perfection!

One of the coolest 1950s Fords ever built is for sale. This is the 1957 Ford known as the Bone Shaker and it is an injected 541ci Boss powered, four speed shifted, straight axle piece of hell and you...

The Newest Dodge Ad Features Charger/Challenger Burnouts And The Dodge Brothers Killing Tires In Touring Cars

Chrysler or FCA or whatever the hell the company is called at this point announced a while back that they were going to position Dodge as the performance brand of the group. This would be a brand...

Watch This Corvette Take Down A Pole And Nearly Hit A Tank At A Drag Race On The Public Street – CRAZY!

Yesterday we showed you a guy nearly getting squashed between two cars during a drag racing event being held on a public street in Oklahoma. This was not an illegal street race as local authorities...

Gasser Reunion Coverage! Pit Shots From The Gathering Of Cool Gassers and Vintage Drag Racing Iron In Ohio

(Photos by Mike Brooks/Gasoline Images) – 13 years ago my wife and I drove from Massachusetts to attend the gasser reunion at Thompson Raceway Park in Thompson, Ohio a couple days after we...