Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Funny Car on a Pole
Lebanon Valley Dragway is a great dragstrip in eastern New York State. It’s got a great history as a track that all the great touring professional racers hit during their barnstorming trips...
Site of the Week: Junkyard Jewels
Looking for a collectible that fits your style a bit better than a Dubs or Whips die-cast? Well, for those of you with taste that leans toward patina and iron oxide, we’ve found the ultimate....
Gary Anderson, Founder of Soffseal Inc, Passes
We were hit with more bad news today with the announcement that Gary Anderson, the founder of Soffseal Inc., has passed away. If you are a drag racing fan you can’t help but think back to the...
Event Coverage: 2009 Detroit Autorama at Cobo Hall, 66 Photos
Last weekend was the Midwest’s official icebreaker for the car season, the Detroit Autorama at Cobo Hall. While most indoor car shows are not our speed, this one brings out all the real hot...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: 1960-1965 Birdcage Maseratis
Some cars, like the Gurney Eagle that was profiled last week are just cosmically right from the moment of conception. The Birdcage Maseratis were born of a company that had tried and largely failed...
Book Review: How to Keep Your Muscle Car Alive
How to Keep Your Muscle Car Alive by Harvey White Jr. is a brand new release from Motorbooks and is part of the Motorbooks Workshop series of technical titles. This book is a neat reference material...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: The End of Leo Santucci’s 1950 Chevy
For fans of GM straight-six performance, the name Leo Santucci is household. He has been a recognized authority on these engines for some time and his history racing them on the dragstrip is quite...
Safety Pioneer Jim Deist Dies
Legendary racing safety pioneer Jim Deist died today, March 9th. Details of his passing are unavailable at the time of this writing. Deist was one of the absolute originators of the racing safety...
Barnstormin’: That Guy
As I was finally starting work on the Javelin the other day, I was sitting inside the car, hammering steel that had been serious defiled in the car’s previous live as a dirt-track stock car. As...
Top 11 Reasons Why We’re Thankful Spring is Coming!
Here in New England we’ve just managed to string two days together with temperatures above 50 degrees. This is a sure sign that we are headed for decent weather and we’ll be able to play...
eBay Pick of the Week: 1LE Camaro Road Racer
We’ve a bit of a checkered road racing past around here. Chad has been through driving school and competed wheel-to-wheel at the 24 Hours of Lemons and I spent a couple years up to my eyeballs...
Monday Time Killer: Vintage Drag Racing Photos
While Chad is out at the March Meet working his beard off, we’re feeding the unrelenting appetite of the blog. We’re throwing a counter punch to Chad’s weekend full of retro-drag...
Charles Carpenter Wrecks in Houston
Charles Carpenter is recognized as one of the godfathers of guts-out doorslammer racing. He is one of the great ones, racing 1955 Chevys throughout his career, which started decades ago. His son and...
