Author: Brian Lohnes

Want to talk about a window into a world that no longer exists?! This is some really spectacular footage that seems to have been made by a local Coca-Cola bottler/distributor a long, long time ago. Showing the delivery drivers at work in the Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin area during the WWII era, we not only see […]

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Now here’s the cure for the common bad day. Every moment of this video below is filled with someone who was having a worse day than you about 30 years ago. From Mike Dunn wrecking the Hawaiian so hard that the motor falls out of the chassis to Eddie Hill, Don Garlits, and others experiencing […]

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(By Greg Rourke) – In the rental business we have customers that we’re sure could f up an anvil. It turns out that can actually happen. Here we have the New England Blacksmiths anvil repair workshop helping a blacksmith repair his 19th century anvil. I used to think if i’d been born 100 years earlier I […]

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There’s something awesome about saving old tools and equipment and that’s why I love this video that shows the step by step restoration of a 70-year old Blackhawk bottle jack. This is a five ton model that has certainly done its fair share of work over the years and as you will see in the […]

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You know, we all have goals. I have been to over 150 drag strips both living and dead around the USA and Canada but there are hundreds more I ma dying to see and one of them is Hal-Far Raceway on the island of Malta. This drag strip is awesome because (1) it is highly […]

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Listen, I am a simple guy to please. I like large cars that can handle and make great horsepower. There are more of them available now than there ever has been but back in 1990, the idea of a larger sports sedan was not exactly common. In fact, outside of Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and Infinity, […]

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This is the best thing you will watch today. This documentary shows the debut of the Porsche 917 at Mosport in 1972. The car was far afield of what most fans were used to seeing in the series and it would ultimately be the race car that broke the half decade long dominance of the […]

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Today is 4/09 and that means it is time to recognize one of the great Chevy mills of high performance lore. Of all the engines that have risen to legendary status long after their production run ended, the Chevy 409 stands in rare air. This engine, which was the lead in to the traditional big […]

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There are few tracks in the world of drag racing that have the history, the feel, and the outright awesomeness of Great Lakes Dragway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. Sure the place may be a little rough around the edges now but it was never the Texas Motorplex. It has always been a facility that has […]

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They are the iron giants that transformed farming over a rather short periods more than 100 years ago. The massive steam tractors that first showed up on large American farms were cantankerous, slow, hard to manage, and dangerous by today’s standards but by the standards of early 20th century farmers they were like something sent […]

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