Riding Up Pikes Peak on the Roll Bar of a Screaming Chevy Equipped Cobra Will Make You Want To Carve Corners Today!
Randy Schranz of Colorado Springs, Colorado won the Open class at Pikes Peak in 2012 with a propane fueled, Chevy small block powered, Cobra and in the process recorded his 37th finish up Pikes Peak....
Rough Start: 1967 Ford Thunderbird – Personal Luxury, Before Brougham
I can still picture it now: brown, flat tire, shattered glass bits on the carpet, with no hope of ever running again. But it was overall complete and nobody was there to tell me why it wasn’t a...
Ride On The Nose Of A Worked Up Peterbilt Truck At The Wild Canadian Big Rig Drags In Quebec
Since I missed another awesome rendition of the big rig street races up in Quebec, Canada last year and this year is looking bad, I have been trolling through video of the event watching all of the...
Grape Warhead: Mazda MX-3 With Dual Engines Because…Eh, Why The Hell Not!
Front-wheel-drive is wrong-wheel-drive. We know this. We have them, and outside of daily-driver status, we aren’t on board. And I speak about that from a performance perspective…you can...
Watch Rich Tuthill Take This Paul Smith Designed Porsche 911 His Company Built On A Sideways Trip Up Goodwood
I know I am a freak for Goodwood but I honestly believe that it is on the level with the great automotive events in the world. From LeMans to Daytona, to Indy, to Monaco, Bonneville, the US Nationals...
Abe’s Babe: Listen To This Group A Mustang Flex It’s Muscles!
We can’t say for certain, but we’re pretty sure that a Fox-body Mustang in New Zealand is like watching a Ferrari drive through downtown Des Moines, Iowa on a Tuesday...
Nine-Second Taurus: The Blue Turd Just Keeps Getting Faster And Faster!
A nine-second 1995 Ford Taurus. Are you kidding me right now? These things were family schleppers, second cars for what seemed like the longest time, street-beaters that were barely given a second...
MAHLE Motorsports Takes A Look At Failed Pistons: How Did This Happen And How Can You Stop It?
As we have said many times, pistons get the worst of all worlds in the engine. They are enduring heat, motion, stressed in multiple directions and through it all they are largely responsible for the...
eBay: This 1967 Pontiac LeMans Station Wagon Is A Well-Cubed Cruiser
We all have an opinion on what makes a good cruiser, right? A car that is comfortable, makes the right noises, can carry a load of people on a trip, and has enough power to make the tires turn into...
Want To Learn Holley EFI? Let Stevie Fast Jackson Teach You! – Episode One Of The Fast Lane
We’ve reached the point in the evolution of aftermarket EFI systems that there’s not a whole lot of argument against their value. This is especially true if you are making larger amounts...
Unleashing The Beast: Watch A Steve Morris SMX Engine Make Four Digit Power On Low Boost
Hey everyone, we now live in a world where multiple people will make you a billet water block that’ll handle upwards of 4,500hp. What was once the realm of one-off lunatics and dreamers has...
Watch Part 1 Of The 1989 NHRA US Nationals – LaHaie and Gwynn Fly, Bonin Takes Off, Records Fall
It’s soon to be US Nationals week, otherwise known as THE BEST WEEK OF THE FREAKING YEAR. Because of this, I plan to openly annoy you with US Nationals history, coolness, and old videos galore....
NHRA Insider Podcast: Matt Hartford and Mike Kloeber Talk Success, Strategy, and Defying Expectations
The Chevrolet Performance US Nationals are next week, the NHRA Countdown is getting ready to start, and the race in Brainerd was awesome. Those are three solid facts from the last few weeks of drag...
Great BangShift Approved Gearhead Ads Circa 1966 – Cars, Gas, and More
It has been a while since we’ve delved into the archive here at the Lohnes Institute for automotive, racing, and cool gearhead stuff history so today, let’s dip our toe back in. Chad...
