Car Feature: Gary Harris's Killer 1965 Ford FalconBy Brian Lohnes Posted 07/8/2010
When we were prowling the pits at Beech Bend Raceway looking for feature cars during the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, one of the first cars we needed to find was this 1965 Ford Falcon owned by Gary Harris. The car is immaculate and reeked of ultra-quality on the strip. We were blown away when we actually got up close to it. This is one of the most well thought out race cars we've ever seen. Read More >
Mini-Feature: Hubert Platt's Georgia Shaker III 1965 Ford Falcon A/FXBy Brian Lohnes Posted 06/24/2010
Hubert Platt's Georgia Shaker III is one of the more interesting door slammers to come out of the mid-1960s. Platt was a southern match-bash star who had tasted the sweetness of a factory deal in the early 1960s with Chevrolet. It was then that the legend of the Georgia Shaker name was born. The first was actually a 1963 Z-11 Chevy. Platt's name is linked to Fords and that... Read More >
Mini-Feature: Ohio George Montgomery's 1969 Mustang Turbo GasserBy Brian Lohnes Posted 06/19/2010
Ohio George Montgomery is one of drag racing's Gasser Gods. He was a driving force in the class from its earliest days right up until it moved back toward the realm of the Competition Eliminator sportsman ranks in the early 1970s. His introduction of late model body styles is blamed by many for the class's fall from prominence, but in reality, it was the only evolutionary step left for gassers. On display here at the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, is his 1969 Mustang featuring a twin turbocharged Boss 429 engine, it is amazing. Read More >
Bad Ass: Up Close and Personal With Carl Tasca's 2010 Mustang Cobra JetBy Brian Lohnes Posted 02/24/2010
When we heard that 2010 Cobra Jet #27 (of 50) was at Tube Chassis Designz for the installation of a parachute, we dropped everything and headed over to check out the car. The 2010 edition of the Mustang Cobra Jet has several mechanical improvements over 2008s, and in our eyes, is the coolest freaking thing any domestic manufacturer currently sells. It is an 8-second car that arrives 'caged and turn-key from Ford. Add that to the fact that this one happens be to owned and raced by the dealership that invented the 1968 Cobra Jet, and you've got even more magic happening. Read More >
Bangshift Mini-Feature: BigfootBy Brian Lohnes Posted 11/20/2009
Every BangShifter out there has one vehicle that strikes at the heart of his gearhead self. For us, that vehicle is Bigfoot 1. Unbeknown to us, Bigfoot 1 and a 35th anniversary Bigfoot truck were on display at the SEMA show, and we spent oodles of time with them. Throw rocks at us if you want, but we'd say that no list of influential vehicles in the history of American motorsports can leave Bigfoot 1 out of one of the top three spots. It is the only vehicle to literally invent a genre of motorsports. Read More >
Car Feature: King Komet 1968 Mercury Cyclone Drag Race SurvivorBy Brian Lohnes Posted 10/15/2009
There's a lame saying about old drag cars and how they never die. That it is total crap. Old drag cars get bent, wrecked, blown up, burned down, hacked up, and restored to factory condition all the time. That's why one that survives with the total package of history, coolness, a winning pedigree, and a brighter racing future is special. The King Komet 1968 Mercury Cyclone is so special it's nearly sublime. Read More >
Car Feature: Jim Sartori's 10-Second, Aluminum FE Powered 1940 Ford Deluxe CoupeBy Brian Lohnes Posted 09/4/2009
If the guys bootleggin' moonshine back in the day got their mitts on Jim Sartori's 1940 Ford, they never would have been caught. Thanks to power from an all-aluminum, 485ci Ford FE motor that made more than 600 horsepower on the dyno, the G-Men would have been a distant memory. This car is flat out amazing in every respect. Where do we begin? Read More >
Car Feature: 1967 Mustang in Modern Trans-Am TrimBy Brian Lohnes Posted 05/28/2009
Dean Westmoreland has three NHRA championships and 27 national event wins as a crew member with John Force Racing, plus an IHRA championship with Don Lampus, and he's now pulling crew-chief duties on Rob Moore's 1960 Chevy AA/Gas nostalgia racer. With all that quarter-mile experience, you'd expect his personal ride to be a Pro Street car built to the hilt. Nope. Read More >
The Zany Thunder FliteBy Freiburger Posted 11/22/2008
If you browsed my most recent El Mirage gallery you had to have noticed photos of this wild custom '62 Thunderbird. The Rocket Birds are kind of an acquired taste, and I happen to dig them to death; Lohnes, meanwhile, thinks the whole lot of 'em should find Titanic-adjacent parking. Yet even he had to admit that this car has a certain something. When I first saw it I thought... Read More >
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