The Lohnes Wreck Files: The End of Leo Santucci’s 1950 Chevy
Mar 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
For fans of GM straight-six performance, the name Leo Santucci is household. He has been a recognized authority on these engines for some time and his history racing them on the dragstrip is quite...
Safety Pioneer Jim Deist Dies
Mar 10, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Legendary racing safety pioneer Jim Deist died today, March 9th. Details of his passing are unavailable at the time of this writing. Deist was one of the absolute originators of the racing safety...
Barnstormin’: That Guy
Mar 10, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
As I was finally starting work on the Javelin the other day, I was sitting inside the car, hammering steel that had been serious defiled in the car’s previous live as a dirt-track stock car. As...
Top 11 Reasons Why We’re Thankful Spring is Coming!
Mar 09, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Here in New England we’ve just managed to string two days together with temperatures above 50 degrees. This is a sure sign that we are headed for decent weather and we’ll be able to play...
eBay Pick of the Week: 1LE Camaro Road Racer
Mar 09, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve a bit of a checkered road racing past around here. Chad has been through driving school and competed wheel-to-wheel at the 24 Hours of Lemons and I spent a couple years up to my eyeballs...
Monday Time Killer: Vintage Drag Racing Photos
Mar 09, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
While Chad is out at the March Meet working his beard off, we’re feeding the unrelenting appetite of the blog. We’re throwing a counter punch to Chad’s weekend full of retro-drag...
Charles Carpenter Wrecks in Houston
Mar 09, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Charles Carpenter is recognized as one of the godfathers of guts-out doorslammer racing. He is one of the great ones, racing 1955 Chevys throughout his career, which started decades ago. His son and...
Event Coverage: Another 198 Photos from the 2009 March Meet
Mar 09, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage
It’s been tough to sit here at the Easy Coast bureau and watch the photos roll in from afar, but it sure looks like the kickoff to the 2009 NHRA Heritage Series lit off like a barrel of TNT...
Event Coverage: 2009 March Meet Pits, Swap Meet, and Car Show
Mar 08, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage
First we brought you a photo gallery of action from Friday at the 2009 March Meet, and today we’re going to have two more sections of event coverage. This one here is all photos from the swap...
Event Coverage: The 2009 March Meet, 100 Friday Photos
Mar 07, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage
Today, Friday, March 6, was the kickoff day of the 2009 March Meet at historic Auto Club Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California. It’s actually in McFarland, but no one really cares....
Chadmouth: I Want to be the Guy with the Mullet
Mar 07, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News, ChadMouth
While walking through the Long Beach Swap Meet last weekend, I saw some guy in a tube-chassis Duster cruising the parking lot on his way to the car corral and it got me pondering the fact that you...
SEMA Scholarship Deadline Coming Soon
Mar 06, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We got this press release from SEMA today alerting us to the fact that the deadline to enter their scholarship application process is drawing nigh. If you are a student in an automotive discipline...
Cars and Skateboards Go Together
Mar 06, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It’s my opinion that cars and skateboards go together. I may get raised eyebrows for saying that but I believe it’s true, at least in Southern California. Surfing and cars work,...
Thread-Jack: Every Known Photo of the F-Bomb Camaro
Mar 06, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The old boss (David Freiburger) certainly has a collection of neat junk, but in our book, none is neater than the infamous F-Bomb. Apparently we’re not the only ones who feel this way because...
