NASCAR Investigating a Large Drop in TV Ratings
It seems that NASCAR’s television audience is vanishing at a rather rapid rate and the sanctioning body has put some super sleuths on the case to find out why. It’s being reported that...
Video of the Week: When Nitrous Goes Bad
Nitrous, like fire, can be man’s best friend or worst enemy when it goes wrong. Consider this video as going as wrong as it can possibly go. The drag car in question suffers a flaming nitrous...
New CNC-Ported Iron Heads from RHS
There is still a place in the world for cast iron small-block Chevy heads. Lots of racing classes mandate iron cylinder heads and frankly, these puppies will probably outwork the lower-end aluminum...
The Day the Bottom Fell Out
There has been nary any good news in the automotive realm for a while. The bad news has been moving at a fairly steady stream, but on Tuesday it came out in a raging torrent. This was an amazingly...
Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Drag Kart!
Yep, admit it. The first thing you thought was WTF?! The second thing you thought was, “How do I get one of my own?” I’d recommend asking this guy, who happened to be running the...
NBC Sues Championship Off Road Racing (CORR)
Thanks to our pal D2 for the tip on this one. The NBC television network is suing CORR for breach of contract as CORR has stopped paying the network for timeslots it had committed to buying to air...
Site of the Week: Ultimate Source of Old Shop Manuals
Shop manuals aren’t exactly the most stimulating reading in the world, but we cherish them more than dad’s Playboy collection, plus they’re more useful when it comes time to work on...
Andretti Wads Up the Petty Indy Entry
It was a tough day at the Brickyard for John Andretti and the Richard Petty Indy 500 team on Sunday as the car suffered a bad case of concrete poisoning coming out of a turn. The team was trying...
GM May Leave Detroit?
According to new General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson, it’s a distinct possibility that the company could leave Detroit as all options to save the massive company are being looked at. It seems...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: Captain Jack McClure’s Rocket Go-Kart
This not exactly a race car, as it was an exhibition vehicle, but what a little piece of craziness it was! This tiny terror made Jack McClure a living for three or four years in the early 1970s and,...
Book Review: The Reckoning
This book is a commitment. The version we read sat about four inches thick and came in at about 800 pages. It’s The Reckoning by David Halberstam, a book that parallels two companies, Ford and...
2009 SEMA Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
The SEMA Hall of Fame is the Cooperstown of Hot Rodding and the automotive hobby. Every year they induct a small class of new members and recently this year’s class was announced by SEMA. See...
The Lohnes Wreck File: The Altered-Crushing Dragster
You’ve always got to be paying attention at the track, even during the times where it seems nothing could possibly go wrong, like in the staging lanes. One racer got way too good a look at a...
Barnstormin’: Racing and Drugs are a Bad Combo
With the recent news of NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield failing a random drug test, it has brought to light a debate among racing fans, journalists, and competitors about the merits of drug testing in...
