SEMA Not Happy with Recent Progress of Cash For Clunkers
May 06, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
As it seems we are creeping toward a national “cash for clunkers” program here, SEMA has ramped up its efforts to work the legislation into something that makes a lick of sense and may...
New Mustang Cobra Jet Flies With AOD Trans
May 06, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We got dropped a note from the boys at FB Performance Transmissions letting us know that Brent Hajek decided to bolt in one of their Ford AO3 Stage-2 Transmissions in place of the venerable C-4 that...
Cole Coonce Talks About His New Book, Live Online Tonight
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Fans of drag racing journo Cole Coonce know his book, Infinity Over Zero, as a tribute to land speed racing, but now he has a new project in print called Top Fuel Wormhole: The Cole Coonce Drag Strip...
Champion Speed Shop Dragster Hauls the Mail at Dragfest
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Rod and Kulture Dragfest, held last weekend at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, combined a hot rod event with some hot match races on the dragstrip. It sounds like a good time was had...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: Ford’s Lotus Cortina
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Here in the USA, the factory race cars that got the big headlines back in the 1960s were mostly the drag-package cars. Relatively stripped down and bolstered with equipment to aid in straight-line...
Video: A Brilliant Take on Domestic vs Import Buying Habits
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
This one comes to us from Rob over at CarDomain. He found and posted this video that’s a takeoff on the classic 1980s “I learned it from you dad!” anti-drug commercial. This is just...
Book Review: GTO, Pontiac’s Great One
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Timing is everything in life and the upcoming release of GTO: Pontiac’s Great One by Darwin Holmstrom by Darwin Holstrom with photos by David Newhardt, could not have come at a better time for...
1971 Mustang With 619,000 Miles On It! Clean One Owner.
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Thanks to Blazerteam on the BangShift.com forums, we were alerted to this New York Times online story about an inventor who bought a 1971 Mustang brand new and has subsequently put over 619,000 miles...
Video: A Bus Made From 50 Smashed cars
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Our gearhead minds totally missed the point of this anti-car marketing scheme and focused simply on how cool it is that these guys built a model of a bus out of 50 smashed Swedish cars that we really...
Mopar Hemi Challenge to be Contested at National Hot Rod Reunion
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Word comes from the Wally Parks Museum that one of the three legs of the Mopar HEMI Challenge, a heads-up shootout for the peeved Pachyderm powered SS/AH 1968 Darts and Barracudas, will be run at the...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Two-Time Monster Truck Crash
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Lightning can strike twice in the same place, even a year apart. Lightning in this case was a 15,000-pound monster truck called Backdraft. I’m blanking on the year, but I know the event was...
Barstormin’: The One Favorite Car
May 05, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
After hearing about the death of Pontiac and drawing a heavy breath, I, like lots of us car guys took a few minutes to think about my experiences with the fabled and now doomed brand. My thoughts...
eBay Pick of the Week: Magazine Cars
May 04, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
For this week’s eBay surfing, we decided to just search cars and trucks that had been in magazines. Usually that turns up an insider or two looking to flip a car and make a buck, but this time...
Monday Time Killer: Arizona Racing History
May 04, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
If you’re even a little bit like us, then you get really turned on by old racing images and history, even if the cars and the stories are not from your local area. That’s why we loved the...
