New 3.7L V6 is the Base Engine for 2011 Mustangs
Jun 17, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Mustang News is reporting that the base engine for the 2011 model year Mustangs will be a 3.7L V6, replacing the ancient and stodgy 4.0L mill that currently fills the engine bay of non-GT...
LS9 Powered Camaro from Henessey Performance Engineering
Jun 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Well that certainly didn’t take long. John Hennessey has shoved a blown LS9 motor into the front of a new Camaro, creating the nastiest ever Camaro that’s based on factory parts. It has...
Survey Shows Americans Love Manufacturing, Just Hate Actually Doing It
Jun 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
A new survey conducted by the firm of Deloitte LLP and The Manufacturing Institute shows that Americans understand that industrial manufacturing is a vital part of the economy but also shows that the...
Automotive Advertising on Television Hits the Skids
Jun 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
It’s no shock that auto manufacturers have massively scaled back on advertising as their bank accounts have dwindled into overdraft protection status. It probably follows the logic chain that...
Pony Cars Coming to NASCAR
Jun 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Man this is some good news! Thanks to to a tip from KNN (The Kris News Network) we got ahold of this story that confirms that pony cars are on the way to NASCAR. They’ll hit the Nationwide...
That’s a Wrap: Veale/Brown Motorsports NHRA Joliet Divisional Wrap Up
Jun 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
The two-week-in-a-row marathon at Joliet, Illinois’ Route 66 Raceway is finished for 2009. Both Jeff and Andrew Veale stayed at the track in between events, buttoning up some things on the...
Event Coverage: 46 Photos from the Long Beach Swap Meet, 6/14/2009
Jun 16, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, SWAP MEETS
The swap meet held in Long Beach, Califoria, by Topping Events is nearly as famous as the one in Pomona. I have to admit that I like this one much better than Pomona. Yes, it’s smaller in size,...
Barnstormin’: Finding Your Spot
Jun 15, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
My wife has this theory that everyone has a couple specific places, like actual, physical places that when you’re there, you simply belong. Normally such thinking lends me to ask her if...
A/Fuel Tech Part 4: The Nitro Dragster Clutch
Jun 15, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This is Part 4 of our A/Fuel Dragster Tech Series. We started off with an introduction to injected nitro racing. In Part 2, you saw the crazy intake and fuel systems on the Fuel Hemi cars, and Part 3...
eBay Pick of the Week: 1981 Corvette Sleeper
Jun 15, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This 1981 ‘Vette caught us totally off guard. After all, the cars of this era were saddled with weak suck small blocks that made 190 hp on their best day. Outwardly, this one appears to be a...
Event Coverage: 40 Photos from Danvers Ford car show
Jun 15, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Here’s a gallery to start off your work week. It’s 40 photos from a local show we hung out at. It was hosted at Danvers Ford in Danvers, Massachusetts, and the show had a smattering of...
Cruising Van Nuys Blvd: It’s 1977 in San Fernando Valley Again.
Jun 13, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
300 plus muscle cars, street machines, and customs cruised Van Nuys Blvd in San Fernando Valley for the first time in decades, and we were there for all the action. What started as a grassroots...
Found! Lost Photos of Rusty’s Chassis Swap
Jun 13, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Dudes! We found some old pictures of Rusty, our 1956 Chevy Bel Air Wagon, as it was going together back in 2000. Chad’s Dad, Walt Reynolds, found them this week and sent them over. He’s...
Reminder: Tune in to Hear Lohnes, Nitro Funnies, Pro Mods, and More Tomorrow Night!
Jun 13, 2009Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Lohnes didn’t want you guys and girls out there on the interwebs to forget that he’s going to be rocking the mic tomorrow night at New England Dragway for their “Funny Cars Under...
