Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Lonestar Round Up 2015: Coverage Of The Massive Texas Show Right Here!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – For 15 years, hot rodders have been gathering in Austin, Texas during the Spring for an event called the Lonestar Round Up. It has grown from a small, old timey...
The Good Stuff Is Always INSIDE! Here’s A Look At Some Of The Coolest Cars And Trucks In The Buildings At Del Mar
Sure, Chad was bragging on how cool the cars and trucks that he posted in his Goodguys Del Mar gallery were but we all know that the neatest stuff always gets put inside. The whole event was...
Duck And Cover! This Sprint Car Wreck Results In A New World Height Record For Chucking A Wing!
(By Jason Mazzotta) – Everyone involved in racing knows that is can be very dangerous for the drivers and crew but a lot of the time people sitting in the stands forget that they are part of...
PDRA Rockingham: Action, Pit Photos, The Most Powerful Door Cars In The World!
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The second event of the 2015 PDRA season took place at the historic Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, North Carolina last weekend and it brought out some mammoth...
AFCO Racing Releases New Remote Reservoir Master Cylinders
In racing there are a million different concerns when outfitting your car for competition. AFCO Racing knows this and they have just released three new remote reservoir master cylinder part numbers...
Goodguys Del Mar Photos: Muscle, Classics, And Traditional Hot Rods In So Cal
Oh yeah, we are still rolling through our expansive stack of photos from the 2015 Goodguys Del Mar show. This thing has been a staple of the So Cal hot rodding spring experience for 15 year now and...
This European Pulling Tractor Rules But What The Heck Kind Of Engine Is Making The Power?
The tractor you are going to see in this video is named “Metal Boy” and it pretty much rules. The video contains a walk around and then it shows the tractor pulling the sled successfully...
1980s Hot Rod Time Machine: Cool Cars, Big Hair, And A Great Show In Oklahoma!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Stillwater, if you didn’t know, is the home of the OSU Cowboys, Mercury Marine, Tumbleweeds, and many other things both famous and infamous. I have...
Goodguys Del Mar 2015: More Photo Coverage From The California Tradition
In the best way possible, all us car guys and girls have something wrong with us. We typically don’t like to lay on the couch, live on our electronic devices, and generally watch the world pass...
Fragola Performance Systems Releases More Part Numbers In Hose End Reducer Line
In their continuing effort to create every possible plumbing solution available, Fragola Performance Systems has expanded their already vast line of hose end reducers, adding straight and bent ends...
Watch An Angry Sprint Car Driver Walk Out Onto A Live Track And Throw A Torsion Arm At A Competitor – Have We Learned Nothing?!
We haven’t even gone a year from the sad story of Tony Stewart and Kevin Ward. Of course Ward was the driver who ventured out onto a live race track and was struck by a car that Stewart that...
This 1970 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon Is A 429 Powered Survivor That Is Priced To Sell
In 1970, if you really wanted to impress the neighbors with your upwardly mobile lifestyle, you rolled into your local Mercury dealer and ordered up a family hauler like this. The Mercury Colony Park...
Dyno KABOOM! Watch This Hot Rodded Mustang GT500 Suffer A Rod Bolt Failure At The Top End Of A Pull
While the GM guys like to throw rocks at late model Ford performance fans because the modular engines are more complex than the LS/LT series of engines, the potency of the Ford DOHC engines cannot be...
Snap-On Tools Made The 48 Hour Corvette Build Possible – This Video Is An Awesome Look At Them In Action
If you are a car guy (and we know that you are) tools are a subject near and dear to your heart. You love the best ones you have and tell horror stories about junk that you have bought over the years...