The Lohnes Wreck Files: Stop!
Apr 21, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It turns out that Honda Civics skip like small stones when driven into a sand trap at their terminal velocity. This little tidbit was discovered on a Wednesday “street night” at New...
Castroneves Acquitted of Tax Evasion
Apr 21, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Sure it happened at the end of last week, and that’s like 23 years in blog time, but we wanted to give you some closure on the saga of Helio Castroneves and his tax evasion trial. It took the...
Barnstormin’: The Last Days of Chrysler
Apr 21, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Is Chrysler done? That’s a question which has been posed before, several times actually. Chrysler has nearly bought the farm a couple times now, coming the closest to collapse in the early...
eBay Pick of the Week: Annoying Guy With Kick-Ass Firebird
Apr 20, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Some people simply do not know the definition of “soft sell.” The dude selling this awesome 1971 Firebird Formula 455 is one of them. The text in the ad is not all that bad, but the...
Monday Time Killer: Remote Control Drag Racing
Apr 20, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Down in the dumps that you don’t have the cashola to build that gnarly drag race machine you’ve always dreamed about? Think you’re going to be stuck running your mom’s minivan...
610 HP LS Crate Engines from Wegner Motorsports
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesNew Products
This new series of crate engines from Wegner Motorsports are pretty stout. Available in a bunch of different trim levels from short-block all the way to turnkey motors, there’s something in...
Rig and El Camino Stolen from Spectre Performance has been Recovered!
Apr 17, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
On the 13th we reported that a truck and trailer and a radical El Camino had been ripped off from Spectre Performance. We just got word that the stuff has been found! Here’s the email text from...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: GM Axing 1,700 Dealerships, and Fast
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
As GM’s management thrashes to meet the June 1 restructuring deadline imposed by the U.S. government, word was leaked on Thursday that the company will be terminating the franchise agreements...
SEMA Says Lots of Pontiac Owners Race
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
SEMA recently polled owners of classic Pontiacs and discovered one in three of them were planning on racing at some point in the next year. This is in stark contrast to a recent survey of new Buick...
CraigsList Pick of the Week: Signed Earnhardt Sr. Fender
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This week’s pick comes from the great state of Texas and is a truly cool piece of memorabilia related to Dale Earnhardt. The man selling the piece worked for the SCCA at Laguna Seca Raceway as...
New Spec Motor for Top Fuel Cars?
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
A new Top Fuel engine rule? That’s what Jeff Burk is saying in a piece over at DragRacingOnline. Burk claims that the NHRA is working with a couple of people/teams to develop a spec engine that...
New Big-Block Chevy CNC Heads from RHS
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesNew Products
Big-block Chevy engines are the weapon of choice for the majority of fast sportsman drag racers out there. Yes, all three makes are represented in some form, but walk though the staging lanes at an...
Celebrity Drivers at this Weekend’s Long Beach Grand Prix
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It’s that yearly ritual that lets us know Spring has arrived, the Long Beach Grand Prix. It’s also the same weekend that the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race takes place. This event has been...
Photo Gallery: 31 Cool Buicks
Apr 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
We’ve been collecting up photo galleries of all sorts of car that we see during our car-guy travels, and this time it’s a gallery of 31 Buick photos. We would have liked to have more, but...
