Happy 6/4! To Celebrate Crank The Volume And Listen To This Blown 604ci Chrysler Wedge Make 1,800hp
Jun 04, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Happy 6/4! To Celebrate Crank The Volume And Listen To This Blown 604ci Chrysler Wedge Make 1,800hp
While most of the world does not celebrate June 4th, we do around here because 604 happens to be a good displacement for stroker big block engines and rather than just show you come low compression...
Enter to Win Holley’s Twin Supercharged LS Engine Giveaway! – It’s Easy and Free!
Jun 03, 2020Brian Lohnes10
What’s that? You don’t need a free, twin-blown, 427ci LS engine from Holley? You don’t think that you want that much horsepower? You’re not sure? Please leave. Go ahead and...
The Other Guy: How The Mercedes E53 Coupe Stacks Up In The World Of Performance Cars – Now With An AMG Edition!
Jun 03, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Other Guy: How The Mercedes E53 Coupe Stacks Up In The World Of Performance Cars – Now With An AMG Edition!
(By Tom Lohnes) – For the old men out there that think the Corvette Convertible or Porsche 911 Cabriolet are too mainstream, there has always been the Mercedes E-class Coupe and Cabriolet....
Radical Rambler: This 1968 Rambler American Is A Tube Chassis, Center Steer Link To A Type Of Drag Racing No One Does Anymore
Jun 03, 2020Brian Lohnes3
This is the coolest drag car we have seen on eBay in years and that’s really saying something because we have seen a few. What makes this car so cool? The fact that literally no on builds them...
Classic YouTube: Check Out This 1957 Chrysler Corporation Training Film – Nine-Way Car Battle With Buick, Olds And Cadillac!
Jun 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
This Chrysler Corporation training film might have been showcased as a nine-way vehicle test, but let’s be quite honest: no, it’s not. In the Fifties, the manufacturers were cut-throat...
Lambo Doors On A C8? Not Just No….HELL NO – Just Because You Can Does Not Mean That You Should
Jun 03, 2020Brian Lohnes3
(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want to take a brand new C8 Corvette and ruin it? Well, for $3,000 hard earned dollars you very much can with scissor doors for the new-for-2020 mid-engined Corvette....
The “WTF?” Files: The Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet Fire Truck Conversion
Jun 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
“Form follows function” simply means that the aesthetic shape of something (normally a building) should be dictated by the function or purpose of the design. Ergo, that’s why a fire...
V-12 Fun: Ride Along In An Awesome Jaguar XJR-5 Road Racer At Daytona, This Thing Hauls!
Jun 03, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Now this rules. Back when I was a kid on the living room carpet, IMSA road racing was shown with some regularity on television and I remember watching the wild GTP category with great interest. These...
Screw Tarmac: This Holden Commodore SS Rips Up A Rally Stage
Jun 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Screw Tarmac: This Holden Commodore SS Rips Up A Rally Stage
If you have never taken a powerful car and threw it around on dirt, you ain’t living right. You’re basically telling me that every 1970s movie, The Dukes of Hazzard, and every other bit...
Watch This 434ci Small Block Make 1,440hp With Twin Turbos – New Zealand Hot Rodding, Baby!
Jun 03, 2020Brian Lohnes2
We’ll save the jokes about the turbochargers spinning in the opposite direction for another day because this little small block is a meanie! Build in New Zealand and packing a set of...
Carnage, Indeed: Here’s The Damage When A Tailshaft Disintegrated On The Dyno!
Jun 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Carnage, Indeed: Here’s The Damage When A Tailshaft Disintegrated On The Dyno!
If you haven’t been following the Buick V6 build that Street Machine has been putting together for their Holden Berlina, then you might have missed the note that it’s being built for a...
Retro-Review Fun: This 1994 Look At The Then Current Acura NSX Is A Reminder Of How Strange These Cars Were
Jun 03, 2020Brian Lohnes3
I remember being a kid when the Acura NSX came out. I remember reading the magazine stories, seeing the stuff on the various car related TV shows, I watched, and talking about it with my fellow car...
Loaded For Bear: 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix SJ 400 4-Speed, With Almost Every Option On It
Jun 03, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
The Pontiac Grand Prix’s game through the late 1980s was sporty luxury. Neutral ground between the Trans-Am freaks who wanted the raging party of 1970 to live on forever, and those who wanted...
QuarantinePiece Theater: This Documentary About Supercharged Grand Prix Cars From The 1920s and 30s Is Fascinating
Jun 03, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on QuarantinePiece Theater: This Documentary About Supercharged Grand Prix Cars From The 1920s and 30s Is Fascinating
You all know that we’re freaks for racing history around here, but how far back does it go? I have recently become obsessed with grand prix racing in the 1920s and 1930s leading up to WWII and...












