Best of 2012: Zorro’s Charger – A Patina’d 1960s Gasser That Goes 10s and Takes Our Breath Away
Posted in Car Features December 28, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This is not a Jaguar, this is not a Cheetah, this is not a Devin, and unless you know what the heck a Kellison is, you’re never going to guess. When Chad and I saw this car roar down the strip at Beech Bend Raceway last weekend we nearly leaped off of the scaffolding and [...]
Best of BangShift 2012: TheThump Truck – A 23,000lb Kenworth That’s About to Run 13s (w/video)
Posted in Car Features December 21, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting and Brian Lohnes) – This thing is truly insane. A 23,000lb behemoth making 1,000hp at the tire that defies logic, the known laws of physics, and all levels of common sense. On the day photog Dave Nutting and I met Leon Smith, the owner of this 1998 Kenworth T-800 truck, it was [...]
Deathmobile: RX7 With A Blown 383 Chevy That Destroys Tires At 70 And Will Kill You (w/VIDEO)
Posted in Car Features March 14, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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(Photos by Dave Nutting – Words by Nutting/Lohnes) – This is a car that makes a big block Shelby Cobra look like the most sensible thing since the GEO Metro. It is by far the nastiest, gnarliest sounding street car I have ever heard. It is not “safe”, it is not comfortable, technically it is not [...]
SEMA Show 2012 Featurette: The Thunder Taker 1960 Cadillac Custom Hearse by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods
Posted in Car Features November 1, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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It is 8,000lbs of subtle metal work, flawless paint, a passenger compartment that’ll seat a football team with room to set up a train set inside, one of the largest sun roofs installed on any car in history and it rolls on the largest most heavy duty frame Art Morrison has ever built. This 1960 [...]
Best of BangShift 2012: The English Brothers With Their Jag and MG Drag Machines – Feature!
Posted in Car Features December 26, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Few classes were weirder and wilder than the old NHRA Modified Sports Car ranks. The Modified Sports classes had their own rules which were similar to the gas classes and the resulting creations dreamed up by drag racers are the stuff of legend. Bob Ida’s “Hemi Healy”, Ed Sigmon’s “Snarpeezel”, and a host of others [...]
Roadside Find: A 2003 Unimog That Is Set Up As The Ultimate Blizzard Fighter!
Posted in Car Features March 4, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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While cruising home from a feature car shoot with Dave Nutting yesterday morning, my dad called to let me know that he stumbled upon an auction site that listed a 2003 Unimog U500 for sale. I thought that was a neat thing to hear until pop said that the truck was at a location roughly [...]
Mini-Feature: Barb Hamilton’s 1937 Willys Gasser
Posted in Car Features May 13, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Barb Hamilton is a woman who truly blazed a trail for females in drag racing. As much credit as Shirley Muldowney gets for “running with the boys” and becoming the first female to challenge the sport’s elite racers, there may be no Muldowney story without Barb Hamilton. Hamilton was the first woman granted a competition [...]
Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]
Posted in Car Features February 20, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this kick ass dragster he spied in the staging lanes. He wasn’t the only one who was smitten by the big block [...]
Bonneville Feature: Mark Warrick’s Flathead Powered, Soncy Road Speed Shop Special, Belly Tank XF/ Fuel Lakester
Posted in OTHER August 16, 2012 by Chad Reynolds
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While on the salt at Bonneville, we were lucky enough to grab some photos of pretty cool cars for features here on BangShift.com. We had heard about this little car before getting to the salt, but the details were a bit fuzzy so we’re glad we got to see it in person. We happen to [...]
eBay Find: A Vintage Jet Funny Car Available for Fun and Profit
Posted in Car Features April 4, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Now that Nostalgia Funny Cars are sweeping the nation like some sort of nuclear powered wild fire, it seems about time for the same thing to happed with Jet Funny Cars. Yes, we know that is a crackpot assumption, but it is the reasoning that we’d use when trying to convince our wife that we [...]
Progress Continues on Ridetech’s Killer Factory Five ’33 Build
Posted in Car Features March 20, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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As you know, the guys and girls at Ridetech are always up to something awesome. Whether it is buying or selling cars at auction, thrashing their stuff on road courses and autocrosses across the country or building their next world beater, they really know how to have fun. The crew at Ridetech is closing in [...]
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