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Boneville Speed Week 2010 – Sunday – Presented by Spectre Performance
Aug 16, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Boneville Speed Week 2010 – Sunday – Presented by Spectre Performance
As we predicted, the crew at Spectre Performance rocketed into the record books on Sunday with a two run average of 324mph to shatter the existing A/BGS record by a large margin of nearly 50mph. The...
The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.
Aug 13, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: Power Shifting Four Gears Down Main St.
As we prepare to bring the Bonneville coverage thunder this weekend and into next week, we’re leaving you with a short but entertaining Parting Shift this week. It is a Chevelle with a...
The Top 11: Best Foreign Cars to Swap Domestic V8 Grunt Into
Aug 04, 2010Brian Lohnes1
The AC Ace would probably be little more than another entry on a list of obscure British cars if it hadn’t been for Carroll Shelby’s decision to buy them in bulk and stuff Ford motors...
RacingJunk Find: A Cool LSR 1927 Ford Rear-Engine Roadster
Aug 03, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Cool LSR 1927 Ford Rear-Engine Roadster
After spending one of the better weekends of our gearhead life at Loring, Maine last weekend in the thick of the LSR action, we’re stuck on the idea of having a car to screw around with in the...
Barnstormin’: Heading to Loring, Lobster, Hot Rods, and Maine State Troopers
Jul 30, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Barnstormin’: Heading to Loring, Lobster, Hot Rods, and Maine State Troopers
Well, we’ve arrived at Loring, Maine. We’ve sipped our first beers, ate a bunch of lobster, oogled a trio of cool hot rods, and skirted a huge speeding ticket due to the good graces of a...
Great Read: A Look Back at the Career of Ohio George Montgomery
Jul 26, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Great Read: A Look Back at the Career of Ohio George Montgomery
There are few living drag race legends that have the resume of “Ohio” George Montgomery. He was one of the primary movers and shakers of the gasser era, led the class in many evolutionary...
Event Coverage: The Spectre Performance 341 Challenge
Jul 09, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Event Coverage: The Spectre Performance 341 Challenge
The first ever Spectre 341 Challenge is in the books and the results surpassed anyone’s expectations. More than 24 cars ranging from exotics to muscle cars to a 1952 DeSoto made many trips up...
Hauling Ass: Bugatti Runs Nearly 270mph on Closed Course
Jul 07, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Hauling Ass: Bugatti Runs Nearly 270mph on Closed Course
Love it or hate the multi-million dollar Bugatti Veyron will go down in history as one of, if not the baddest ass production car ever created. Just days ago, a Veyron Super Sport, which sports a...
Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Dodge Daytona in the A2 Wind Tunnel
Jun 17, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Dodge Daytona in the A2 Wind Tunnel
Gary and Pam Beineke’s series of 1971 Chrysler wing cars are all based on early 1970s Chrysler documents that showed the company had tested scale models of aero ’71 cars in the wind...
Angry Elephant: Dyno Video of Lee Sicilio’s Hemi Daytona LSR Car
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Angry Elephant: Dyno Video of Lee Sicilio’s Hemi Daytona LSR Car
Our buddy Scott Clark, known as DieselGeek on the BangShift.com forums spends some of his free time tuning fuel injection setups on all different kinds of machinery. He’s messed around with...
Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s K&K Insurance 1971 Daytona Clone Flying at Maxton
May 25, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s K&K Insurance 1971 Daytona Clone Flying at Maxton
Bobby Issac and Harry Hyde famously bombarded the Bonneville Salt Flats with a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona stock car in September of 1971. Chrysler had chopped its racing budget and the wing car was...
The World’s Fastest Motorcycle is For Sale
May 25, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on The World’s Fastest Motorcycle is For Sale
The BUB Seven Streamliner is the world’s fastest motorcycle. It gained that title by hauling nearly 400 mph of ass at Bonneville in 2009 during a FIM and AMA sanctioned motorcycle land speed...
Indiana State Troopers Get Hemi-fied
May 05, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Indiana State Troopers Get Hemi-fied
In what seems to be a growing trend among police forces across the country, the Indiana State Police have opted to purchase a bunch of Dodge Charger police package cars for their officers. The...
Cool Drag Car Gallery With Video: The MegaSquirt Guys Do a Drag Pak Challenger
Apr 20, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Drag Car Gallery With Video: The MegaSquirt Guys Do a Drag Pak Challenger
The guys at DIYAutoTune.com are the mad geniuses who developed and brought to the world the diabolically accessible MegaSquirt EFI system. By using commonly available parts, basic mechanical skills,...