Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
HOT ROD MAGAZINE DRAG WEEK 2013 DATES CONFIRMED
Big news kids! Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 will be contested 9/8 -9/13 with a September 14 rain date if necessary. Hot Rod has not released the tracks for Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 yet, but...
Watch A Nova Fly Through And Then Off The Course At Last Weekend’s Run To The Coast Four!
Last weekend at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California the American Street Car Series held their Run To The Coast 4 event. This is one of the premier pro touring gatherings in the...
Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?
Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some...
Craigslist Find: A 100% Bitchin LS Swapped 1978 Chevy Bonanza Pickup Truck – SO SO GOOD!
Lately our Craigslist finds have been strange contraption but this is a literally thing of beauty and it is priced right, too. We often joke about “if we had the money” but really, if we...
Carnage Photos: The Aftermath Of The Incredible Folding Plow Truck Video
Yesterday I stopped by DMC Racing in Halifax, Massachusetts to catch up on some of their bitchin’ projects, new products, and to catch a glimpse of their famously dead yard truck that we dubbed...
Video: Watch A Late Model Aussie Ford Falcon With A Turbocharged Straight Six Make 1,000hp At The Tires – Aeromotive Products On Board!
GM got the memo that the Aussies get some cool RWD cars and that we should get them too, hence the G8 and the upcoming Chevy SS. Ford still has not answered the pained cries of its fans to bring over...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Rev On The Redline – Foreigner (1979)
Here’s a good listen from the late 1970s in the form of the Foreigner tune Rev On The Redline. We’d never heard this one before digging it up completely by accident on YouTube. The song...
eBay Find: A 1967 Chevy C-10 That’s Really The Bomb!
No we really mean it, the freaking BOMB baby! With a 125-gallon gas tank mounted right behind the cab, a shortened up chassis, and some nice cab patina, this truck could become Sputnik’s cousin...
Drag Video: Watch A Sleeper Turbo 460 Ford Powered Maverick Thunder Down The Strip – Street Sweeping Perfection!
Our buddy and BS photo contributor Tommy Lee Byrd unknowingly tipped us off to his buddy’s beyond bitchin’ sleeper Maverick the other day. This thing is a pretty basic combo that is still...
Action Gallery: Tug of War, Rock Crawling, And Pit Photos From The 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog
(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Yesterday we showed you killer mega-truck action from the 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow bog and today we’re coming back with a bunch more action...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Gotsta Get Paid – ZZ Top (2012)
(Editor’s note: We highlighted this one last year, but it is stuck in my head so here it is again!) The guys in ZZ Top recently released a new tune called, “I Gotsta Get Paid” and...
Barnstormin’: These Guys OWN Low-Buck
Dave Nutting was full of questions on the way to the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog last weekend and I was full of hypothetical answers. As many of you loyal readers out there know, I love trucks....
Have You Checked Out Racing Head Service’s New Website? Do It Today!
When it comes to heads, intake manifolds, and blocks, RHS is on the bleeding edge of the market for small blocks, big blocks, and LS-engines. Their line of aluminum LS blocks has been hailed by many...
