The New Z-Car Is On The Way – What’s The Power, What’s The Price? We Take Our Best Guesses Here
Jun 12, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The New Z-Car Is On The Way – What’s The Power, What’s The Price? We Take Our Best Guesses Here
(By Tom Lohnes) – After 12 years on sale, the Nissan 370Z is finally being replaced. That’s right, Nissan just put a teaser image up for a new Z car, a new Frontier pickup, and what appears...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Happens When You’ve Reached The End Of Your Talent?
Jun 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
Let’s get the basic questions out of the way now. That is a three-foot-long steel spike that is bashed through the piston of a Chrysler 400. If you go back to the Raven Imperial build, around...
CPG Nation Towing Sale: Get The Parts You Need To Make Your Hauling This Summer A Breeze
Jun 12, 2020Brian Lohnes1
You have been waiting for months to race, you have changed your plans, rearranged your calendar, setup your car to its most perfect state, and it’s almost time to hit the road. Don’t give...
Move Over Raptor: The Ram Rebel TRX Is Coming And Hellcat Is Coming With It!
Jun 11, 2020Brian Lohnes5
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Ram Rebel TRX is going to take the Ford Raptor by storm with 707 horsepower, Baja tuned suspension, and a high 3 second 0-60 time. Named TRX (an abbreviation for...
2020 PDRA East Coast Nationals: More Action Photos From The Season Opener Of The Doorslammer Series!
Jun 11, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on 2020 PDRA East Coast Nationals: More Action Photos From The Season Opener Of The Doorslammer Series!
(Photos by David Whealon) – Yesterday we showed you our first batch of killer PDRA photos from the 2020 PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT Motorsports Park. Shot by David Whealon,...
Great News: Centerforce® Clutches – Now Available at American Powertrain! The Perfect Way To Complete Your Trans Swap!
Jun 11, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Great News: Centerforce® Clutches – Now Available at American Powertrain! The Perfect Way To Complete Your Trans Swap!
American Powertrain has been the go-to industry stop for transmissions, transmission swap kits, and all the components associated with those things for years. The company continues to expand the...
Penske On Indy 500: We Will Run It Only With Fans – August Race Date Could Become October If Necessary
Jun 11, 2020Brian Lohnes5
Some would say that Roger Penske made the biggest mistake of his life by buying IndyCar before the 2020 season. Those people aren’t seeing the fact that this Penske is basically the only person...
Pre-Rocket Bunny: 1977 Chevrolet Monza Widebody – Can You Hear The Screaming Small-Block?
Jun 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
The Chevrolet Vega might have been tainted goods after the rust started to appear and the engines started to go boom, but that didn’t mean that the whole platform was bad. Chevrolet just needed...
On This Day: The Horrific 1955 Le Mans Disaster
Jun 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on On This Day: The Horrific 1955 Le Mans Disaster
It happened in the blink of an eye. Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar pulled out in front of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey, who swerved into the path of Pierre Bouillin (aka Levegh)....
Classic YouTube: The 1988 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Test By MotorWeek
Jun 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Ever hear someone talk about the visceral feel of a car? How a good car can embed parts of itself into your senses, where you can hear, feel, see and smell it? Yeah…meet my visceral car. I have...
The Unstoppable Monster: Check Out The Big N Sexy S10 Monster/Mega Truck In The Mud, The Swamp, and On The Water!
Jun 11, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Unstoppable Monster: Check Out The Big N Sexy S10 Monster/Mega Truck In The Mud, The Swamp, and On The Water!
It seems like the more that the “Mega Truck” movement evolves the closer they become (in some sense) to the modern monster truck. What makes them cooler though is the fact that they are...
Barely Breathing: Uncle Tony Gets To Work Diagnosing The Trouble With The Turbocharged Slant Six Dart!
Jun 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
Uncle Tony has his hands on a customer’s 1972 Dodge Dart that has a draw-through turbocharger setup raided from a Pontiac 301 hooked to a 225 Slant Six. Interesting combination, to put it...
This 427ci FE Engine Has The Recipe For Fun: Torque and LOTS Of It!
Jun 11, 2020Brian Lohnes1
While the sexy way to make it into a sports hall of fame is to have some incredibly prodigious numbers that are stacked up (sometimes) over a short period of time, the quieter way to make it in is to...
Money No Object: 1970 Dodge D300 – Working Never Looked So Good
Jun 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
I’ve always been drawn to the idea of a work truck. Blame my father for instilling that stereotype of “the truck is for work, the car is for everything else” into me when I was...












