Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
eBay Find: This 1947 Dodge Power Wagon Wrecker Is The Height Of Vehicular Perfection
My love for Power Wagons is only superseded by my love of tow trucks so when I found this 1947 Dodge Power Wagon wrecker for sale on eBay I naturally broke down in tears at the sheer perfection of...
More Great Coverage From The 2014 Hunnert Car Heads Up – Nostalgia Drag Racing Perfection
(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Yesterday we dropped the first of a few galleries that we’ll have from the 2014 Hunnert Cars Heads Up nostalgia drag race. This event has been...
Our Last Batch Of Cool Cars For Sale At The June Pomona Swap Meet – Supremely Cool To Sublime, They Are Here!
Yesterday we came to the end of the cool truck photos that we had taken at the June 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. Today we reach the end of the line with the cool car photos that we took at the same meet....
Burned Up Motor Leaves Garlits Short Of 200 On Second Round Of Testing In Swamp Rat 37 Electric Dragster At Bradenton
It wasn’t easy 50 years ago and it isn’t easy now. Don Garlits and the entire operation behind the SR-37 Quest dragster hit a snag in testing yesterday when one of the electric motors...
Barnstormin’: The Triumph Of Showing Up
(Motorcycle photo by Tanya Timberman) – If there were ever truer words spoken than, “90% of success is just showing up,” I have never heard them. Ask anyone who has ever done...
2014 Hunnert Car Heads Up Coverage: Raw, Fun, Cool Drag Racing The Way It Used To Be – Big Fun!
(Words by Greg Rourke – Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – The Chrome Czars were back at historic Great Lakes Dragaway last weekend for the fifth annual Hunnert Car Heads Up. This...
Out On Power Tour? Go See Matt Graves And The American Powertrain Boys In Their “C-Heap C10” – It Rules
Let’s consider this a sneak peek because in the coming weeks we’re going to be giving you the blow by blow build story of the truck that the American Powertrain boys are our cruising this...
Here’s Our Final Pomona Swap Meet Truck Coverage – This Includes One Of The Coolest Car Haulers We Have Ever Seen
We’re finally to the end of our coverage of the great trucks that were on display and for sale at the June 2014 Pomona Swap Meet. In this group of photos we take you to all ends of the spectrum...
Eastern Outlaw Pro Mods And Other Crazy Stuff From The Bristol NOPI Event
(Words and Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – I had never been to a NOPI event so when they joined with EOPM for the Bristol, TN event at the famed “Thunder Valley” strip, it was a no...
Watch The Wild Doorslammer Wreck At The 2014 Fuchs Winternationals That May Have Ended Ben Bray’s Career
Thirty year old Ben Bray is second generation drag racing royalty in Australia. His dad, Victor Bray is their country’s John Force. The guy is known in all corners and his career arc is much...
Watch An Aussie Comp Eliminator Survive A Nasty Wreck At The 2014 Fuchs Winternationals
There’s an old saying that “even a bad day at the race track beats a good day at the office.” Under normal circumstances when we’re talking about a first round red light or a...
Listen To A Live Audiocast From The Ohio Mile Today! Live Streaming Audio Of All The Action On The Track Starts At (About 8am EST)
Are you working in the shop today, maybe doing some stuff around the house, in the yard, or going on a long drive? Heck, maybe you have no friends and you’re just a hermit looking for something...
Zorro’s Charger – A Patina’d 1960s Gasser That Goes 10s and Takes Our Breath Away
(Since we’ll be live broadcasting the 2014 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion from Bowling Green next week, we decided to run some of the coolest car features we shot at the race over the...
Video: A Russian Truck Driver Improbably Escapes Sure Death – Falls Through Windshield During Wreck – Walks Away
We know today has been like video-palooza, but they’ve all been so good the deserve to be seen! We were tipped off to this amazing Russian dash-cam footage of a big rig wreck by Matt Cramer. As...