Car Feature Re-Run: The King Komet, A 1968 Mercury Cyclone Drag Race Survivor

Posted in Car Features April 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > > 0 comments

There’s a lame saying about old drag cars and how they never die and 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 [...]

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Mini-Feature Re-Run: Ohio George Montgomery’s 1969 Mustang Boss 429 Twin Turbo Gasser

Posted in Car Features March 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > > 5 comments

(Editor’s note: On Monday we are running a story about a bunch of old school turbo drag cars that you have probably never heard of before. This is one of them. We ran this little mini-feature a couple of years ago when we saw the car at the Holley NHRR. Here’s another look. There were [...]

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Car Feature – Boss Hoss: A 1969 Pro Street Mustang Powered by 604ci of Alan Root Headed Ford Hemi

Posted in Car Features March 20, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > > 9 comments

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Lately we have been featuring sleepers here on BangShift, so consider this our way of breaking that trend. This car is a sledgehammer, both visually and mechanically. It would be impressive enough to tell you that the car was powered by a 604ci Ford engine, but that would be selling [...]

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1967 Shelby GT500 Barn Find – Amazing Car Found in Death Valley California

Posted in Car Features March 15, 2012 by Brian Lohnes > > 30 comments

When we got the call from our pal Jon at Tube Chassis Designz that we needed to get down to his shop to see something cool, we jumped in the car and went. We were greeted with one of the coolest single cars we have ever seen. This is a factory stock 1967 Shelby GT500 [...]

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Mini-Feature – The Incredible 1960 F100 by Two Brothers Custom Trucks

Posted in Car Features November 7, 2011 by Brian Lohnes > >

Of all the vehicles I saw and crawled over at the 2011 SEMA show, none hit me harder than this 1960 F100 truck, built by 2 Brothers Custom Trucks of Springfield, Illinois. Cool from every angle, sporting a twin turbocharged, stroked, Y-Block engine, and a manual transmission, it is stunning. Sure, the big wheel look [...]

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Quick Peek: A 572ci, 1130hp, Naturally Aspirated Kaase Big Block Ford Powered 2004 Mustang Mach 1

Posted in Car Features April 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes > >

We’ve been spending a fair amount of time at our local neighborhood chassis shop, Tube Chassis Designz lately. Jon and his crew have been replacing the cab floors in Goliath, and recently we installed a MSD Power Grid into his race car. We’ll be running our Power Grid install story in the coming days. One [...]

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Bangshift Mini-Feature Re-Run: Bigfoot

Posted in Car Features April 11, 2011 by Brian Lohnes > >

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 a couple years back, and we spent oodles of time with them. Throw rocks [...]

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Mini-Feature: Hubert Platt’s Georgia Shaker III 1965 Ford Falcon A/FX

Posted in Car Features March 15, 2011 by Brian Lohnes > >

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 [...]

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Car Feature: Jim Sartori’s 10-Second, Aluminum FE Powered 1940 Ford Deluxe Coupe

Posted in Car Features March 7, 2011 by Brian Lohnes > >

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 [...]

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Best of BangShift 2010: Up Close and Personal With Carl Tasca’s 2010 Mustang Cobra Jet

Posted in Car Features December 31, 2010 by Brian Lohnes > >

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 [...]

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Car Feature: Gary Harris’s Killer 1965 Ford Falcon

Posted in Car Features July 8, 2010 by Brian Lohnes > >

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 [...]

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Car Feature: 1967 Mustang in Modern Trans-Am Trim

Posted in Car Features May 28, 2009 by Brian Lohnes > >

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 [...]

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The Zany Thunder Flite

Posted in Car Features November 23, 2008 by FREIBURGER > >

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 [...]

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