Author: Brian Lohnes

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Awesome Video: How To Haul A Steam Locomotive Through London And Park It In A Museum Circa 1961

This is a really cool video, especially for you fans of heavy hauling and big trucks. We’re going to watch a massive steam locomotive and its tender gate hauled from the rails straight into a museum through the streets of London in 1961. The trucks are Scammel Junior Constructor models, the company is Pickford’s and […]

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100+ Years Of Work: Watch This Ancient Ruston Hornsby Engine Get Fired Up To Irrigate A Pakistani Farm

No, they don’t build them like they used to and this video sure is proof. You are going to watch a group of guys get a really big old stationary engine fired up on a Pakistani farm to run an irrigation pump and water their crop. This is a cool video on multiple levels. Firstly, […]

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Cool Video: Watch Some AHRA Drag Racing At The Old Tucson Dragway Circa 1983 – John Force and Others!

This is fun video! We’re going back to what looks like the 1983 AHRA Winternationals at the “old” Tucson Dragway which is about a 15 minute (or less) ride from the current Tucson Dragway that you likely know and love for its many appearances on shows like Roadkill, Street Outlaws, and other media. Jim and […]

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Watch A Greenwood Corvette Lose An Engine In Flaming Fashion On The Banks Of Daytona!

The most positive among us talk about how there’s “no such thing as a bad day at the race track” and while there are times that we agree with such Pollyanna vision, videos like the one below challenge that attitude. We’re sure that Didier Andre, who was driving this Greenwood Corvette when the excitement started […]

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Fun Propaganda: 1974 Film Touting The Supremacy Of Chevy Trucks Over Fords Uses Some Wacky Tests

Automakers have been creating promotional sales videos since the advent of the moving picture, right? To us, they are great because even in the darkest of times, they were all talking about how fantasticly grand their products were. Now the 1970s was not a bad time for trucks. It may have sucked for cars, but […]

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In-Car Video: Wheel-Sawing Action In The Cockpit Of A Small Block Powered 289 Cobra!

There are few cars that have the mythology, history, and downright awesome past than the Shelby Cobra. The little English car that became an American icon with the addition of a 260, then a 289, and then a 427ci Ford engine. The big block cars are their own brutal beast but the small block cars […]

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Own A 1965-1966 Mustang? Here’s How To Install A Borgeson Power Steering Upgrade Kit! Video –

Early Mustangs are cool cars that hundreds of thousands of people still enjoy cruising on a weekly bases around the country. Like all old cars though they have their shortcomings, especially when it comes to the riding and driving aspects of their existence. Our pals at Borgeson know this and they know that the factory […]

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Watch Two Mammoth 100+ Year Old Steam Tractors Have A Reunion Of Sorts – A Slow, Cool Drive

Oh if these things could talk! This fun video takes a look at two big old steam tractors as they are fired up and driven to a common location to have a “reunion”. That’s probably too heavy a word but it is the one they used in the title so I am using it here. […]

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Excellent Engine: Watch Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun Fire Up Their Scratch Built V12 LSR Engine

If you are a hardcore lover of engines and hot rodding, the name Pete Aardema is not unfamiliar. This is a dude who has built some of the most wild, interesting, over the top, and complicated engines of the last 50 years, really out of the depths of his own creative brain. Knowing that it […]

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High School Hero: This Review Of The 1998 SLP Firebird Firehawk Reminds Us How Awesome These Cars Are

As a senior in high school there was no car I wanted to own more than a 1998 SLP Firebird Firehawk. These cars with their thumping 330+ horsepower, tuned suspension, and slightly revised exterior looks were everything that any car loving kid wanted back in the day. Heck even the third generation cars were and […]

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