Speed and Sound: Watch A Late 1970s F1 Car with a Cosworth DFV V8 Engine Attack Goodwood!
Jul 29, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Speed and Sound: Watch A Late 1970s F1 Car with a Cosworth DFV V8 Engine Attack Goodwood!
It’s a pretty familiar story in the world of racing, right? Son of operator/owner of large successful company is a talented race car driver and wants to compete at highest levels, company...
Swan Song: As Mitsubishi Fades Into Oblivion, We Look Back At Their Coolest Performance Cars
Jul 29, 2020Brian Lohnes4
(By Tom Lohnes) – With Mitsubishi cutting all sales in Europe and likely here next year, I’ve decided to go into detail of the best Mitsubishi cars ever made. This once great company was...
MAHLE Motorsport Expands Power Potential for 3.0L BMWs – PowerPak Piston Kits Now Available for S55 and N55 Engines
Jul 29, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on MAHLE Motorsport Expands Power Potential for 3.0L BMWs – PowerPak Piston Kits Now Available for S55 and N55 Engines
We know at this point that the engineers at MAHLE Motorsport don’t sleep. How can they? It seems like every week they are raising the piston game with new releases, innovative products, and...
Flying Bricks! Enjoy A Half-Hour Of All-Volvo Rally Footage – Good, Bad And Ugly!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Volvos are the cars of safety, and have been for decades. They aren’t performance darlings out of the box, but are instead meant to be stronger and safer than the truck that carried them to the...
Mall Cruiser Or Mud-Bogging LuxuryLiner? Bogging In Trars In The Woods!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Mall Cruiser Or Mud-Bogging LuxuryLiner? Bogging In Trars In The Woods!
I’ve seen HMMWVs sunk up to the top of the windshield frame and LMTVs that couldn’t find any traction whatsoever in the slop. I’ve seen a K5 Blazer on 35-inch tires sunk up the tops...
Old-School Roundy-Round: Picking Up A 1938 Chevy Racer!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Is it difficult for you to picture a pre-war car as a use and abuse kind of ride? Eighty years on, most are gone, the ones that remain are either restored or modified into some kind of hot rod, but...
Rough Start BOGO: 1979 Chevy Monza 2+2 And 1980 Monza Spyder
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Finding a Chevy Monza that meets the Rough Start qualifications is a bonus to begin with. H-bodies don’t grow on trees anymore and if you can find one that is still capable of being on the...
The Famous “We’ll Have An Automobile Race” Scene From Two Lane Blacktop
Jul 29, 2020Brian Lohnes9
To the normal person Two Lane Blacktop is a horrendous movie but to gearheads it is an amazing cult classic. As you know we are gearheads and because of this fact I thought that I’d try to...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Has Been Stolen From You?
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
Thieves suck. Plain and simple, those who would rather steal from others instead of getting their own share deserve nothing more than scorn, ridicule and punishment. Not sorry in the least. Too many...
BIG Money, BIG Weekend for NHDRO at Indy – $110,000 In Payouts Including $62,000 Bracket Race!
Jul 28, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on BIG Money, BIG Weekend for NHDRO at Indy – $110,000 In Payouts Including $62,000 Bracket Race!
With over $110,000 in payout—including the $62,000 BB Racing Bracket Shootout on Saturday—and two full races on tap, NHDRO’s Big Show brings the Midwest’s biggest motorcycle action to drag...
The American Powertrain Halfway Through 2020 Sale Is ON – Save Big, Get Free Stuff, Outrun the End Times
Jul 28, 2020Brian Lohnes4
Let’s just say that 2020 has not exactly gone according to plan, shall we? Between the complete and utter disruption of every facet of American life and the ensuing impact of that on, well,...
Drag Action Photos: The PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown Brought The Best Of The Best To Virginia To Battle!
Jul 28, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Drag Action Photos: The PDRA Mid-Atlantic Showdown Brought The Best Of The Best To Virginia To Battle!
(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a hot, entertaining, and competitive weekend of PDRA drag racing action at Virginia Motorsports Park last weekend when the series fired of the 2020...
The Mallet Performance Widebody Colorado Is A 700hp, Blown, Small Truck From Hell
Jul 28, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Mallet Performance Widebody Colorado Is A 700hp, Blown, Small Truck From Hell
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new 800 horsepower Yenko-tuned Chevy Silverado 1500 is awesome with its supercharged V8 and 8-speed automatic, as well as it’s 3.8-second 0-60 time. But what if you...
The Drag Saw Rescue Is Done: Check Out The Big Finish Of Final Assembly And Running This 120 Year Old Man Eater
Jul 28, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Drag Saw Rescue Is Done: Check Out The Big Finish Of Final Assembly And Running This 120 Year Old Man Eater
This right here is some good stuff. A couple of weeks ago we posted the first part of the restoration of this 120 year old gas powered drag saw that was used by loggers to hack up trees into chunks....












