Gearhead Destination: Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry
Feb 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Located in Chicago, Illinois, the Museum of Science and Industry is a wondrous place that any wide-minded gearhead would love. Featuring exhibits like an actual German U-Boat captured during WWII,...
More Info Coming Out on Brett Stevens’ Drug Arrest
Feb 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Brett Stevens, the Australian drag racing mega-star who was recently scooped up in a police drag net against illegal drugs seems to be in some major league trouble. First, he shocked the drag racing...
Video of the Week: 7 Minutes in Can-Am Heaven
Feb 05, 2009Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
After writing about the Lola T70 and thinking about the sheer awesomeness of the old Can-Am series, we remembered that there are probably lots of people who’ve never seen those wild old cars in...
Rad New Nitto NT05: A Big, Sticky Tire for Guys Who Need Big, Sticky Tires
Feb 04, 2009Chad ReynoldsNew Products
Nitto’s latest offering is a summer max-performance tire that immediately caught our eye when the guys from the tire company revealed it to us last week. This tire is for the guy who really...
Site of the Week: Good Old RVs
Feb 04, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
This is cool. We thought we were the only ones who thought there was a certain coolnees to old ’70s motorhomes and campers. Perhaps it’s because they are the only ones we could afford if...
Hot Rod Magazine 2009 Drag Week Schedule is Here!
Feb 04, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Well, it’s time to put on your daddy pants again and start preparing for the most brutal test of man and street-legal (barely in some cases) machines ever devised: it’s Hot Rod Drag Week...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Penske/Donohue Lola T70 Mk3B
Feb 03, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
You know what they say about the really beautiful girls. They’re temperamental, flighty, unpredictable, and often times, more trouble than they’re worth, but damned it if we aren’t...
Video Review: The Young Racers
Feb 03, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
This week, we suffered through The Young Racers for you. You’d think that a Roger Corman flick made in 1963 with that title would offer some B-movie greatness, but alas, this one’s mostly...
Lynn Wineland Not Doing Well
Feb 03, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve just received word that Lynn Wineland has entered the hospital in grave condition with myoplastic anemia, a bone disease. Lynn is one of the Petersen Publishing greats, having stared as a...
Pioneering NASCAR Official Robert “Hoot” Auton Passes
Feb 03, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
There’s another golden generation of people slowly leaving us, and that’s the people who were working and guiding NASCAR through its age of glory and growth back in the day. One of those...
Breaking News: Saleen Sells Off All Its Assets
Feb 03, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Wow. We knew that Sallen was shopping for a buyer but this one hit us upside the head. MJ Acquisition was the purchaser and they are already in the high-performance industry, overseeing the operation...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Litton at Epping, 2006
Feb 03, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It seems that lots of guys dug the stories of racing accidents that I have witnessed from last week’s Barnstormin’ column so I am going to profile a wreck or odd occurrence I’ve...
Barnstormin’: Sidekicks
Feb 03, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Most of the stuff that happens in the world of cars and hot rodding is not just the handiwork of one person. Normally, it’s at least two people who have designed, created, or fabricated...
Deep Inside Darren Tedder’s 654ci, E85-Burning, 1,261HP Hemi!
Feb 02, 2009Chad ReynoldsENGINE, Tech Stories
Darren Tedder owns what’s probably the cleanest 8-second ’71 Cuda ever. He was a Top 10 finisher in the 2006 Hot Rod Pump Gas Drags, where we got to know him a little, and had his car...
