Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Here’s The Answer To Our “What The Hell Is This” Challenge From Yesterday – Tons of Info and Photos!
Yesterday we showed you photos of an odd looking like trucklet thing. Well, the owner of that odd looking little trucklet thing is one Brian Earp and Brian was kind enough to send us a ton of info,...
Photo Highlight Reel: Bob Chiluk’s Favorite Photos From 2012 – Top Fuel, Pro Touring, and Barn Finds!
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – My interest in cars and anything with wheels always presided over my interest in photography. But those grade school days reading Hot Rod magazine and seeing...
BS Daily Tune Up: Crawlin’ From The Wreckage – Dave Edmunds (1979)
Dave Edmunds’ 1979 ode to automobile wreckage didn’t make the charts in the United States, but it did manage to climb to the number 59 spot on the British charts that year. Some claim...
eBay Find:A 1974 Vega Racer With A Full Boogie Suspension, Built Up Cosworth Motor, And History!
Sweet mother of cone crushing, apex clipping, slaloming, coolness. This 1974 Vega is set up to rip, has a totally documented and cool racing history, a Cosworth engine that was run at Bonneville on...
Gallery: Burnouts! A Collection of Cool Burnout Photos From The BS Photo Archive
(Photos by BS staff and contributors) – Boiling the bolognas, frying the hides, laying patch, doing a smoke show, etc. The practice of roiling your rear tires goes by many different names and...
Question of the Day: Do You Know What The Hell This Thing Is?
BS reader Brian Earp recently sent us an email with a photo of his truck and thought it would be fun to try to stump the rest of you out there in reader land as to what in the hell it is. He gave us...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Scott Liggett’s Favorite Photos of 2012 – Road trips, Wrenching, and the Drags!
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Brian texted me just before Christmas to send in some of my favorite pics that I took over the last year, I was a bit worried because I didn’t...
BS Daily Tune Up: Beep Beep – The Playmates (1958)
Life was pretty darned good for The Playmates in 1958. The group has just signed on to Roulette records, cracked into the Top 40 with two tunes off of their first album. Adding to that was the...
Gallery: The Cordova Dragway Park 2013 Hangover Nationals – Drag Strip Action At 14-Degrees! BRRR!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Cordova Dragway Park in Cordova, Illinois again hosted the Hangover Nationals. Held on New Years Day for the past 14 years, they plow snow off the track,...
Video Bonanza: U-Haul trucks Getting Thrashed
We’ll admit right off the bat that we have beaten down a U-Haul truck or two in our day. We got a V10 powered model high sided on a pile of tires one time. It’s kind of a long story, but...
1962 Plymouth Fury With 777 Original Miles – A BangShift Exclusive!
(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working...
Watch a Rear Axle Failure Completely Destroy The Back Of 1968 Camaro Drag Car
We’ve all seen the videos of rear ends completely breaking free from drag cars, launching them into the air and smashing back down to Earth. This video is different from those in the fact that...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Greg Rourke’s Favorite Photos From 2012 – Autocross, Drags, and More!
(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Not long ago I would try to get access to the wall at drag strips to take photos. The answer was always “no”. Then I started sending a few...
RacingJunk Find: Bobby Allison’s 1980 IROC Championship Winning Camaro – When Stock Cars Were Cool!
For many years the IROC (International Race of Champion) Series was a big deal to both racers and fans. Drivers from all different disciplines of racing were pitted against one another in identically...