Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
BangShift Question Of The Day: Ever Driven A Slow Car Fast?
While the may sound like a dumb question on its face, lots of people are discovering the joy that is driving a slow car fast through racing like ChumpCar, The 24 Hours of Lemons, and it has been...
Show Gallery: The 2013 Rat City Rukkus Hot Rod Show – Fun In Vegas!
(Photos by Colin Johnson) – Colin Johnson is our man on the street in the greater Las Vegas area. Recently, he attended the Rat City Rukkus car show that is held at the same time as Viva Las...
The War Horse: A 1966 Straight Axle Mustang Fast Back That Punches All The Right BangShift Buttons!
(Photos by Charles Wickam and David Reese) – When Charles called and asked if we would be interested in doing a feature on a totally kick ass 1966 Mustang fastback done in the gasser style that...
Buford T Justice Update: We Install A First Gen Chevelle Flowmaster Kit On Our 9C1 Caprice!
Well I celebrated Buford’s one year anniversary in fine style last week by finally getting back to wrenching on the car. The weather has broken, Spring is here, and I found both of my kids when...
eBay Find: A 1969 COPO Camaro With Dealer Installed L88 Power, Ultra Rare Options, Perfect Paint, And A Big Price Tag
This could be the single coolest car for sale on eBay right now! When we first stumbled upon the ad that had the words Camaro and L88 in the title we assumed it was a project someone built as a clone...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Bad Motor Scooter – Montrose (1973)
Ronnie Montrose and Sammy Hagar were the two most well known parts of the first version of the band Montrose that emerged in the early 1970s and became stadium hard rock gods by the time the decade...
Show Gallery: The 2013 Space City Cruisers Car And Bike Show – League City, Texas
(Photos by Jerrica Burke) – The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Wickam house! Charles was stuck at the office last Saturday so his daughter Jerrica scooped up the camera and...
BangShift Exclusive: Never Before Published Photos Of The Bill Thomas FIA Fast Back Novas!
(Photos from the Steve Magnante archive) – Our recent feature of Kelvin Cannon’s home-built replica of an ultra rare Bill Thomas “fastback” Nova had lots of people talking and...
Show Gallery: The 2013 Boston World Of Wheels – Some Of New England’s Finest Iron!
We were so overrun with great galleries from all over the country that I didn’t have a chance to run these photos from the 2013 Boston World of Wheels until now. This year, the show was held in...
New England’s Newest Pro Mod Is Going To Be A Tim McAmis Lightweight Bad Ass!
Very few classes in drag racing have had the kind of incredible groundswell of development and performance gains as Pro Mod has had over the last 10 years. From the technology in the suspension and...
“That Guy” Named Grand Marshall of Local Car Show
“That guy”, the annoying know-nothing who claims to know it all about cars has been named the grand marshall of a local car show. The honor was not lost on “that guy” and he...
Pushrods Sue Ford Motor Company for Discrimination
DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union will announce today that they have taken up the cause of pushrods who wish to sue the Ford Motor Company for discrimination. The pushrods believe...
Grandson of 100mpg Carb Inventor Creates 1000mpg Fuel Injection, Disappears, Foul Play Suspected
The grandson of the man credited for inventing the “100mpg carb” decades ago, has disappeared after unveiling a revolutionary fuel injection system that claimed to allow modern cars to...
BangShift Announces the Engine Failures Challenge: Worst Engine Builders in the Country To Gather for Contest
After watching the popularity and prestige of the Engine Masters Challenge grow every year, BangShift has decided to get their piece of the pie by announcing the creation of the Engine Failures...