Tuesday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com
Sep 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Tuesday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com
We’ve been following Drag Week with the diary of racer Jay Brown in his SOHC-motored 1964 Galaxie. We think he’s the only person to have raced at every single Drag Week since the start...
More Affordable Belt Drives from Jesel
Sep 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on More Affordable Belt Drives from Jesel
Wayne Jesel is one of the coolest guys we see at Bonneville, and this year he got his brother Dan into the 200 MPH Club. Dan runs Jesel Valvetrain Innovations. He must be cool, too, because the...
Australian Guy Drives For 50 Years Without a License, Then Gets Busted
Sep 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Australian Guy Drives For 50 Years Without a License, Then Gets Busted
Life is a funny thing. We have friends who had their licenses taken due to um, agressive driving and got caught about thirty seconds after they decided to slip behind the wheel before getting it...
Site of the Week: Yenko.net
Sep 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Site of the Week: Yenko.net
During the horsepower war of the 1960s in Detroit, Ford, GM and Chrysler were cranking out high performance cars that ran harder and faster than anything previously built. That was good enough for...
Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set
Sep 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set
We would have never caught this one if it were not for the guys at CarDomain. It seems they surf TMZ.com more than we do, which is never. That celebrity-stalking site posted this way back on...
Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 2, Martin, Michigan
Sep 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 2, Martin, Michigan
Day 2 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors, is done. There are three days of racing left for the competitors in this wild event that has cars racing at five drag strips in...
Video: 7-Second Pro Street Firebird at Drag Week 2009
Sep 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Video: 7-Second Pro Street Firebird at Drag Week 2009
Here’s a video of Eric Yost in his Pro Street Power Adder third gen Pontiac Firebird at Martin, Michigan, on the second day of Drag Week 2009. This pass shows an 8.29, but this car ran 8.11 on...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 Day 2 Results are In
Sep 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 Day 2 Results are In
Right now it’s the end of Day 2 at Hot Rod Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors. This is the week-long event with drag racing every day, and the cars have to drive on the street from track to...
Michigan Track Sets Crappy Record
Sep 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Michigan Track Sets Crappy Record
Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan, has set a new track record. For rainouts. The track is suffering its worst year (in terms of weather) in its nearly six-decade existence. Adding pressure is the...
Video: ZZ572 Powered Jeep CJ
Sep 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: ZZ572 Powered Jeep CJ
This Jeep is in Denmark…we think. Where ever it is, we want it. V8 powered CJ Jeeps have a certain air of coolness about them, but one packing a GM Performance Parts ZZ572 crate motor with...
Canadian Street Racing Law Deemed Unconstitutional
Sep 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Canadian Street Racing Law Deemed Unconstitutional
A Canadian street racing law that deemed anyone driving 50 kph above the posted speed limit as “street racing” has been deemed unconstitutional by an Ontario judge. The ruling came on the...
New Zealand Grandmother Has a Bitchin’ Hot Rod
Sep 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on New Zealand Grandmother Has a Bitchin’ Hot Rod
This is some kind of cool. A New Zealand grandmother, and former drag racer, has recently been cruising her killer blown-Hemi-powered 1934 Ford hot rod around the streets of Lincoln, New Zealand....
The Dodge Caliber SRT-4 is Dead
Sep 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on The Dodge Caliber SRT-4 is Dead
Chrysler’s lone exciting small car is dead, according to a report from AutoWeek. No specifics were given on why the car was knocked out of the lineup, but if they’re killing this one, we...
Free Download of the New Mopar Performance Catalog
Sep 15, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Free Download of the New Mopar Performance Catalog
Mopar Performance has released a new catalog with lots of the old V8 parts still in place and with many all-new parts for the modern cars. It is free to download here at the Mopar web site. Also,...












