Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Order Up! Ford Racing Opens Order Window For 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jets – Factory Drag Goodness!
The 2014 Cobra Jets can now be ordered as per the announcement from Ford Racing. We were hoping to see a turbocharged option for 2014 but it doesn’t seem like it is in the cards although a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Closest Racing Facility To You And Do You Support It?
The earlier item we ran with the cool old drag racing video from Missouri and Iowa in the late 1960s featured two tracks that are currently dead and gone. It got us to thinking about our local...
Vintage Drag Video: Gassers, Door Slammers, Altereds, Dragsters And More From The Late 1960s In Missouri and Iowa
Old drag strip home movies are good for the soul, we’re convinced of that. This nearly 12-minute clip that was originally made by Carl and Char Hirst back in the late 1960s at Mid America...
Racing Junk Find: A Road Racing M3 Packing A FAST And Holley Equipped Stroker LS6 Engine! Do Want!
We’re not going to lie, BMW M3s are always sitting somewhere on our “want” list. Anyone who wants to make claims as to how the BMW M3 isn’t awesome to drive can suck it,...
Cruise Gallery: The Fort Oglethorpe Cruise In – Georgia
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – On his way home from Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip’s first Heads Up race of the season, Tommy Lee Byrd stopped by the Fort Oglethorpe (Georgia) Cruise...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Panama – Van Halen (1984)
Lots of people think that Van Halen’s 1984 hit (off of the album 1984) is about a country. Those people are wrong! Panama is a car song, believe it or now. David Lee Roth said that he saw a car...
Hot Rod Magazine Homecoming Car Show This Weekend! BE THERE! 300+ Former Cover and Feature Cars On Display At Pomona!
This weekend is the Hot Rod Homecoming Car Show at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California. Saying just that is selling it way short. The Homecoming is the greatest gathering of former feature and...
Rare Clone: A Perfect Recreation Of Drag Racing’s Ultimate Misfit Nova
While rolling around the pits during the 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green last summer something strange caught my eye. It actually caught my entire body as I executed a full...
Show Gallery: The 2013 World of Wheels – Omaha, Nebraska
(Photos by Jay Oviatt) – BangShifter did last weekend what I plan to do this weekend, which is to attend the local “World of Wheels” indoor car show. The same company that puts on...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is The New Delta Wing Coupe Super Cool or Too Weird?
The Delta Wing race car has been running at tracks across the world for a couple of seasons now. Originally designed as a replacement chassis for IndyCar, the innovative machine was not chosen for...
Powermaster Performance Sponsors The Chattanooga Cruise-In – April 6,2013 – Looks Like A Blast! Be There!
If you are in the greater Chattanooga, Tennessee area on April 6, 2012 and you are not at the Chattanooga Cruise-In, you officially fail. The event is put on right in downtown Chattanooga with Coker...
Bitchin’ Rods Gallery: The St Patty’s Day Bash At Murray Kustom Rods – Ft. Worth, Texas
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles worked his ass off during the weekend he spend at the Goodguys show. Between harassing Chad, shooting a couple of upcoming feature cars, making autocross...
Videos Of Win: A Twin Turbo Olds 455 Cutlass Sleeper Runs 10s – Plus A Crafty Home Made Solution To Modifying Pistons At Home For Full Floating Wrist Pins!
You know that above pretty much all else around here, we love sleepers. When said sleepers are home built using good old fashioned hot rod ingenuity they get our full attention and admiration, like...
