Author: Brian Lohnes

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The Snowmobile Wrecker Is The Coolest Thing Canada Has Made Since Maple Syrup

We’ve got to thank Brian Frieburg for sending us the images of this incredible snowmobile wrecker that was built from scratch up in Canada. We only really know the fact that this machine exists in Northern Ontario. After that? Well after that we’re just reveling in the fabrication, the layout, the functionality, and how much […]

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Video: Sprayed Or Not? Either Way This Hot Rod Garden Pulling Tractor Is Gnarly!

There are motorsports in this world that many people laugh at but in actually are brutally awesome. Modified garden tractor pulling is one of them. These guys make ridiculous power out of factory based engines and machines like the one in the video below really drive the point home. The title of the video claims […]

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Killer Old Drag Video: Check Out This Cornucopia Of Drag Awesomeness From Deer Park Raceway In The 1970s –

Deer Park Drag Strip was a staple of the straight line scene in the Spokane, Washington area from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. It began life as an airfield as we understand it today the place is back to doing what it was intended to do in the first place, deal with airplanes. […]

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Did You Know That Ford Sent Two Guys To Drive Around The World In 1957? Here’s the Video Of Their Trip

The world was a vastly different place in 1957 and when you watch this video of an event that took place 60 years ago, you’ll agree with us. 1957 was the year that Danny Ames and Phil Remington were sent on at trip to drive around the world by the marketing department of the Ford […]

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Watch This Tractor Tire Equipped Unimog Haul Logs Through Impossible Muck

We love a good Unimog video around here and any good Unimog video includes one of these unstoppable machines conquering the wilderness and doing something that seems impossible at first blush. In this video that task is acting like a log skidder and hauling some massive logs out of the woods. The only thing that […]

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Watch This Guy Pull Every Gear Like A Master In A 1964 Mack With A Triplex Transmission

It has been a while since we have features someone getting after it in an old big rig with a multiple stick transmission. In this case the truck is a 1964 Mack B-61 and the driver is Bob. We don’t know Bob but Bob sure as hell knows how to run this gearbox. Man, you […]

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Sport Sedan 90s Style: This Motorweek Review Of The 1995 Mercedes-Benz C36 AMG Is A Neat Slice Of History

The idea of a sports sedan is something that has been present and accounted for in the modern sense of the American automotive market for about 40 years at this point. The BMW M3 broke the mold, the Taurus SHO brought it to the common man, and Mercedes was comparatively slow to enter the came, […]

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Fun Big Rig Video: Jamming Gears in an Ultra Rare 1973 Dodge 900 Big Rig

Not many people remember that Detroit’s Big Three were heavily involved with the Big Rig business in the 1970s. Dodge was in the mix along with Ford and Chevy/GMC. In some sense, they were out almost as quickly as they were in. Dodge was done producing big rigs by 1976. Few of them remain today […]

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Ride Along In A 258mph Firebird At Bonneville – Three Minutes Of Full Throttle SCREAM!

One of the least understood and most difficult places to drive really fast on planet Earth is Bonneville. The surface itself is salt and can best be described as feeling like someone coated a concrete floor with buckets and buckets of salt. Cars are never fully “hooked up” on the salt nor are they ever […]

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Crash, Bang, BOOM Video: These 1990s Era Nostalgia Drag Racing Wrecks Are Nasty

Nostalgia Drag Racing today in the year 2016 is a far different animal than the activity that began back in the 1970s and then really caught fire in the 1990s. If you had told someone in the middle 1990s that someday there would be “nostalgia” funny car running mid fives at over 250 mph they […]

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