Pomona Swap Meet Coverage: More Cool Cars and Trucks From The Nation’s Biggest Regular Swap Meet!
Jan 22, 2020Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re back with more potential, more hopes and dream, more heartache and bad decisions. Yes, we are back with more swap meet coverage from the massive Pomona Swap...
Watch This Pontiac Wheelie Into The Fog At Lights Out 9 – Craziness!
Jan 22, 2020Brian Lohnes1
We are just a few weeks away from Lights Out 11 and it always makes me start to think about my memories from some of the previous events I have done in this incredible series. Lights Out 9 was a...
Watching Old Engines Being Brought Back To Life Is Awesome
Jan 22, 2020Brian Lohnes1
There’s something about seeing an old engine being brought back to life, right? It is a fun deal and something that is kind of tough to describe about how it makes you feel. I’ve done it...
Ruh-Roh: Meet The Rotary Burnout Microvan That Cleetus And Crew Built!
Jan 22, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Ruh-Roh: Meet The Rotary Burnout Microvan That Cleetus And Crew Built!
In the grand scheme of things, this might be one of the most unsafe things that Cleetus and his friends have ever done. Keep in mind that we are talking about the guy who’s claim to fame...
Livin’ The Dream: 1972 Ford LTD – Big, Brash And Beautiful
Jan 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart9
I blame you, BangShift. I don’t think that I would’ve given early 1970s full-size Ford products any more than a passing glance had it not been for you introducing me to a movie I never...
Random Car Review: 1984-88 Ford Sierra XR8
Jan 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
So, here’s a bit of a brain tease for you: It’s a four-door 1980s era Ford product, wearing wheels you might see on an all-wheel-drive Tempo, sporting a bit of the Aero look that Ford was...
Your Science Lesson For The Day: Seeing The Inner Workings Of A 9-Cylinder Radial Solenoid Engine
Jan 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Ever since the advance of jet engines for aircraft, radial engines have declined to being something of a niche powerplant. Classic aircraft, certain stunt aircraft, and model airplanes are pretty...
Video: A Heads Up Drag Race Between A 4-Speed 340 Duster and a 455 LeMans!
Jan 22, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: A Heads Up Drag Race Between A 4-Speed 340 Duster and a 455 LeMans!
This week’s American Powertrain Parting Shift is awesome both for what it is and what it isn’t. What the video is, we love. A heads up drag race between a 4-speed, 340 powered Duster and...
Wintertime Daydreaming: 1961 Chrysler 300G – Springtime’s Siren Song
Jan 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Days like today are why I detest winter months. I wake up, I look outside and I see beautiful, clear skies, sun forever, birds attacking the feeders in flocks. It’s a reprieve from the wet, the...
There’s A Dick Landy VW Supercharger Kit For Sale On eBay Right Now – It Might Be The Last Brand New One On Earth
Jan 21, 2020Brian Lohnes4
It’s sometimes tough to think that there can ever be a “last” or “only” of anything related to cars, right? Someone ALWAYS has something stored, saved, hidden, or...
January 2020 Pomona Swap Meet Photo Coverage: The Fairplex Was Packed With People, Parts, and Cool Stuff!
Jan 21, 2020Brian Lohnes3
(Photos by Wes Allison) – At the end of the day all of us who love cars and trucks have a few things in common. We are attracted to the stuff we like for reasons of emotion, style,...
Eating Dirt: Serious Mud-Romper Mangling Footage From All Over The Place!
Jan 21, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Eating Dirt: Serious Mud-Romper Mangling Footage From All Over The Place!
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” That’s the quote, right? The big dude in the corner who usually gets by on sheer intimidation factor alone can get walloped by the...
Because GM Wouldn’t Do It: 1979 Pontiac Grand Am With A 455
Jan 21, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
If you look back at some of my musings of Pontiac in the late 1970s, you will often see me refer to a civil war kind of mentality within the GM division. On one hand you had those who were all about...
The Speculator: This 1973 Olds Omega Is For Sale, The Asking Price Is Optimistic, The Information Is Hopeful
Jan 21, 2020Brian Lohnes11
We actually kind of dig this guy’s angle. If we were in the position to be selling a brown-ish 1973 Olds Omega with a decent number of options we’d be pulling out all the stops as well....












