NHRA Insider Podcast: Clay Millican, Jack Beckman, and Bruno Massel Talk Nitro, Pro Stock, and All The Indy
Jul 30, 2020Brian Lohnes1
With little more than a week before the NHRA Mello Yello drag racing seres returns to action at Lucas Oil Raceway Indianapolis, I thought it would be cool to talk to some of the movers, shakers, and...
Corner Carving Wallet Basher: Meet The New Lamborghini SCV12 – A Track Monster By Any Measure
Jul 30, 2020Brian Lohnes1
(By Tom Lohnes) – Lamborghini, a company behind the screaming, V12 powered supercars and racecars, have finally brought you something different. Oh wait, no they didn’t. Meet the Lamborghini...
Beef Your Rear: Mark Williams Enterprises Introduces Their Corvette C2-C3 Rear Axle Improvement Kit
Jul 30, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Beef Your Rear: Mark Williams Enterprises Introduces Their Corvette C2-C3 Rear Axle Improvement Kit
The C2/C3 Corvette platform has not been more popular than it has become at this moment in the aftermarket. What that means is not just restorations but people taking these cars and upgrading them...
American Bad Ass: The Story Behind The Story Of Andrew Alepa’s Corvette Making More Than 5,200hp On The Hub Dyno
Jul 30, 2020Brian Lohnes3
When the big book of drag racing is finally written, the chapter on “Radial vs The World” will be one of the most entertaining to read. By far the most insanely advanced cars in the sport...
Foose Does The XJ: Check Out This Cool Video As Chip Foose Sketches Up His Own Personal Dream Jeep
Jul 30, 2020Brian Lohnes1
One of the things we have loved about this series of Chip Foose videos on the Hagerty YouTube channel is that he takes these iconic cars and kind of breaks down their basic design elements while...
From The Inside Out: This Look Into How TJ Zizzo Made His First NHRA Top Fuel Final Round Is Awesome
Jul 30, 2020Brian Lohnes4
He is one of the “good guys” in the world of top fuel drag racing and he now stands on the precipice of doing something he has dreamed about his entire life. TJ Zizzo has finally made a...
High Roller: The 1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé That Ran The Paris-Dakar
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
What made a desert run to the southern point of the Baja Peninsula work? It wasn’t sponsorships and a ton of advertising dollars, but a desire to push man and machine to the limit on...
Cool Vanilla: 1990 Dodge Ram D150 Muscle Truck, As It Should Have Been
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
Rewind back to 1990 for a minute. The truck of the moment, as it had been ever since it debuted, is the updated GM C/K pickup truck. Lifted, slammed, name it, GM trucks were killing it. They were the...
When Giraffes Fly: Cleetus Takes The Controls Of A Cessna For The First Time!
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
When I left the Army in 2010, my plan was concrete: I was going to go to school and I was going to learn to fly. I had managed to push through the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration and the...
4WD To Front Wheel Drive In A Snap: Street Gas 4×4 Trucks At Berryville
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 4WD To Front Wheel Drive In A Snap: Street Gas 4×4 Trucks At Berryville
Much like a test-and-tune night on No-Prep Thursdays, or a “public welcome” spectator drags event that ends with broken headlights and someone beating the tar out of someone else in the...
Rough Start: 1968 Dodge Dart Sedan – The Yellow Brick Road To Fun
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
In the 1990s, Mopar Action magazine built up a 1969 Plymouth Valiant four-door, dubbed it the “Green Brick” and proceeded to road-race the dog snot out of the car. It competed at many...
Pitchin’ Mustang: This 1988 Ford Mustang GT Has Some Interesting, If Not Mysterious Road Racing History
Jul 29, 2020Brian Lohnes9
For the asking price, this seems like one heck of an awesome car. The way that prices are rocking up on Fox platform Mustangs these days, to get one with a 13:1 compression 371ci stroker small block,...
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...












