Tag Archive: spotlight
Hellacious Dyno Video: Watch Lee Sicilio’s Turbo Barton Hemi Powered Beast Spin the Rollers!
May 31, 2012Brian Lohnes5
Our pal Scott Clark is an EFI tuner that lays his hands and lap top on lots of different cars across the country. There are high performance street cars, drag cars, and land speed cars as well. The...
Watch an Off Road Racing Truck Jump and Land Directly on Top of Another Truck During a Race!
May 29, 2012Brian Lohnes1
Jeremy McGrath cut his teeth in the tough and crazy world of motorcross in the 1980s and 1990s. He moved to off road racing trucks several years ago and has proven himself to be just as gnarly a...
Drag Wreckage Photo Sequence: Jason Brown’s Massive Wreck From the Throw Down in T-Town
May 21, 2012Brian Lohnes4
(Photos by Steve and Gary Wilson – Wilson Motorsports Photography) – The Throw Down at T-town is one of the most hard core and bad ass door slammer races in the country. This year Steve...
“Big Willie” Robinson, Larger Than Life Drag Racing Supporter and Crusader Has Died
May 19, 2012Brian Lohnes30
We reported yesterday that “Big Willie” Robinson, the massive mountain of a man and huge force behind the street legal drag racing scene in the Los Angeles area was in poor health. Word...
AutoTrader Find: A Real Deal Original 1962 Pontiac Catalina Super Duty
May 16, 2012Brian Lohnes4
Back in 1962 if you really wanted to dominate the action on the drag strip, this was the car you needed to have. A 421ci Super Duty Catalina with all of the lightweight aluminum body components, a...
Carroll Shelby, American Racing and Sports Car Titan is Dead
May 11, 2012Brian Lohnes16
News is just breaking that Carroll Shelby, one of the largest figures in American racing history and high performance American cars has died. We have heard for a couple of weeks that Shelby was in...
Watch John Hall’s Massive and Scary Pro Mod Crash From NMRA Bradenton Earlier This Year
May 11, 2012Brian Lohnes1
Back in March, Pro Mod racer John Hall suffered a massive wreck during the NMRA race in Bradenton, Florida. Hall was there testing his nitrous Camaro in preparation for the then upcoming ADRL season...
eBay Find: The Nicest 1981 Yenko Turbo-Z Camaro on Earth
May 09, 2012Brian Lohnes8
The 1981 Yenko Turbo-Z Camaro marks the final effort from muscle car legend Don Yenko to take a normal factory high performance car and elevate it to “super car” levels. Starting with...
Watch the 2013 GT500 Mustang Make Hot Laps of The Nurburgring Ring in Germany
May 08, 2012Brian Lohnes7
The hotly awaited 2013 Ford Mustang GT500 has been spotted and captured on video making laps around the famed Nurburgring in Germany. The car sounds 100% bad ass when wailing along, that is for sure....
Project Buford T Justice Hits the Dyno and Goes KABLOOEY! CARNAGE VIDEO INSIDE!
May 08, 2012Brian Lohnes39
After we ran Buford T Justice at the strip and the 4,000lb tank shocked us with elapsed times in the 15-second range, we were immediately intrigued as to the actual power output of the 185,000 mile...
Buford T Justice Hits the Chassis Dyno Today…Guess the Rear Wheel HP!
May 07, 2012Brian Lohnes52
So color us obsessed if you want, but after our 15-second stock drag romp with Buford a little more than a week ago, we were really interested in putting this car on a dyno to get a rear wheel hp...
Watch Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger Drive a Lingenfelter Tuned Camaro ZL1 202mph!
May 06, 2012Brian Lohnes4
Like everyone else, we saw the announcement the other day from Hot Rod Magazine, that Freiburger ran a ZL1 tuned by Lingenfelter Performance Engineering to a terminal speed of over 202mph at the...
FREE LIVE Streaming Video From Battle at the Banks Starts Saturday Morning
May 04, 2012Chad ReynoldsComments Off on FREE LIVE Streaming Video From Battle at the Banks Starts Saturday Morning
SCHEDULE UPDATE SCHEDULE UPDATE: WE WILL BE LIVE BY 7:45 AM DUE TO A SCHEDULE CHANGE HERE AT THE EVENT RATHER THAN 7AM. If you want to see what is arguably the coolest Pro Touring Event on the...
Heartbreaking News: EJ Potter, “The Michigan Madman” is Dead
May 01, 2012Brian Lohnes25
Elon Jack Potter, better known to hot rodders the world over as “EJ” or “The Michigan Madman” died on April 30th, 2012 in Ithaca, Michigan. EJ was 71 years old. Normally I...





