Roadside Find: 1968 Mercury Convertible
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
When this big, purple Mercury showed up on the side of the road for sale a couple weeks ago, we didn’t think much of it. Then it kind of struck us that had never laid eyes on a fullsize,...
Vintage race Car of the Week: The 1972 Olds Cutlass Banshee
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Off-road racing back in the ‘60s and early ‘70s was filled with all kinds of wild and wacky machinery. One of the wildest pieces of iron to mix it up in the dirt was the Banshee, a...
Book Review: Dean Jeffries, 50 Fabulous Years in Hot Rods, Racing & Film
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ll admit to being a little behind the curve on getting you the word on Dean Jeffries: 50 years in hot rods, racing, and film by Tom Cotter, as the positive reviews have been showing up...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Rollover Contest at Riverhead
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
My friend Dave Bernstein once entered a 100-car enduro race at Long Island’s Riverhead Raceway. The facility, a quarter-mile banked oval originally built in the late 1940s, is one of the last...
eBay Pick of the Week: 2009 Cobra Jet Mustang
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Well that didn’t take long. 2009 Cobra Jet Mustang number 26 is up for sale on eBay for a starting bid of $100,000. The car is being sold by an Ohio exotic car dealer and we’re keenly...
Ashley Force Hood Claims Second Funny Car Win at Houston
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Boy this is shaping up to be some year in the NHRA Nitro Funny Car class. We dropped you a line when Bob Tasca III snared his first win a couple weeks back, but now another one of the young racers in...
SEMA’s Already Fired Up About “Clunkers”
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
With President Obama throwing his support behind so called “cash for clunkers” programs to help drive car sales here in the US, SEMA has wasted little time in getting the message out that...
Barnstormin’: Why the Martin M4 Pro Mod Bugs Me
Mar 31, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
With the IHRA Spring Nationals a few weeks off and the press machine working up to speed to promote the race, I got to thinking about Harold Martin’s M4 Pro Mod. The car made its debut at the...
BangShift.com Event Coverage: 2009 Goodguys Pleasanton, 351 Photos!
Mar 29, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
We’ve attended Goodguys shows all across the country, but our favorites are at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California. We are there this weekend, March 27-29, for the 27th...
It Came from the Fab Shop: An Old Truck Project Changes Paths
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
(By Loren Krussow) – I’d been looking forward to checking out a project truck that a friend was going to pick up as part of a trade, an early-‘50s Chevy half-ton that was said to have...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: California May Ban Black Cars
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
There are not words to describe the idiocy that has come to define California’s approach to saving the world. The state that each day creeps a step farther and farther toward actually being...
The Art of the Con: Tesla Unveils Sedan to Know-Nothing Media Outlets
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Tesla Motors, the wunderkind maker of electric cars (right now only the Tesla Roadster) unveiled its new “flag-ship” model to a horde of journalists on Thursday and managed to brainwash...
Crane Purchase Still On According to Scorpion
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We have just spoken to Scott Reynolds, VP of Marketing for Scorpion Performance and he confirmed with us that the company still intends to buy Crane Cams along with its assets and put employees back...
Crane Cams Assets to be Sold at Auction
Mar 27, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Word has come that Crane Cams is officially toast. All of the company’s assets and property, physical and intellectual will be sold at auction, ending the run of the storied camshaft supplier....
