Gearhead Destination: The Long Beach Swap Meet
Feb 12, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
The Long Beach Hi-Performance Swap Meet, held at Veteran’s Stadium in Long Beach, California, on 14 different Sundays per year, is often looked at as the little brother to the world famous...
Video of the Week: SCCA Trans-Am Action Circa 1970
Feb 12, 2009Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
We’ve done the Can-Am thing so we thought we should do the Trans-Am thing in this week’s featured video item. We’re taking you back to SCCA 1970 and some footage from what seems to...
Cool Helmet Auction Coming Up at Amelia Island Concours
Feb 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Amelia Island Concours is a very high-falutin’ car show held every year at The Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach. As most car shows are, this one benefits charities and helps to...
Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: The Engine Tree
Feb 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Here’s another memory from the wild and wooly days at college. What you see hanging from the tree on a come-along is a 350, 700R4 transmission, and transfer case from a mid ’80s K5 Blazer...
2010 Camaro to Pace the 2009 Daytona 500
Feb 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It has been announced that the 2009 Chevy Camaro will pace the 2009 Daytona 500, breaking a two-year streak of Corvettes handling the official duties. It’s the first time since 1969 that a...
Site of the Week: All About Buick Performance
Feb 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
While neither Chad nor I own a Buick, we were both chatting about the greatness of BuickPerformance.com the other day. I mean this place has everything that a die-hard Bu’ lover would ever...
Anderson Backs It Up with a 211.13-MPH Pro Stock Lap!
Feb 10, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Greg Anderson ran 210.97 in NHRA Pro Stock earlier today at the Winternationals and then backed it up with a 211.13 6.528 which is the quickest and fastest in history!
Greg Anderson Makes the Fastest Pro Stock Lap Ever!
Feb 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Literally minutes ago, Greg Anderson blasted his way to the fasted Pro Stock pass in history. Let the record show that Anderson was the first guy to clear 210 mph in an NHRA legal Pro Stocker. Chad...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: The 1961 Ferrari 156
Feb 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
With the rumblings of a startup F1 effort here in the US coming along, we thought about the only American guy to ever win the F1 championship, Phil Hill. He won it while driving for Ferrari and he...
Book Review: Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots
Feb 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is one for any fan of the ‘80s road-racing scene in the US. It’s an autobiographical tale about Sam Moses, a Sports Illustrated writer who gets a shot...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Bruce Allen and Kenny Koretsky at Ennis, Texas, 2005
Feb 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This was the worst racing accident I have ever seen, bar none, end of story. No one said it in the press room where I was sitting but everyone thought Bruce Allen was dead. The tricky, all-concrete...
Barnstormin’: And This Is Normal To You?
Feb 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
That was the question posed to me by my good friend Dave Bernstein about a week ago when I was telling him about the Red Ball Express and the improbable cross-country journey that an old dirt track...
Little Old Lady Chevelle Sighting!
Feb 09, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
We’ve all heard stories, seen ads, or have witnessed the proverbial, “one owner, little old lady” car. Most of us want the one that has only been driven to the market and then...
The Top 11, Guest Submission Edition: TheSilverBuick’s Favorite Stories From His Leg of the Red Ball Express
Feb 09, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Red Ball Express has come to a close, with our ’68 Javelin having been relayed across the country by a string of volunteers. Each leg of the trip brought some fun stories and memories for...
