Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Awesome Find: A Wild 1931 Ford Designed As A Snow Fighting Montana Mail Delivery Vehicle – Grandfather of the TRAR!
BangShift reader Bill Gantner tipped us off to this magnificent creation that he first spotted on BringATrailer.com, which is a site you should also be reading every day. The BAT boys found this...
Event Gallery: Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2012 – Gallery Two – More Great Hot Rods, Muscle, and Unexpected Treasures!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the first gallery from Fleming’s Pumpkin Run gearhead gathering version 2012. Grippo shot so many great photos of so much great stuff we...
Video: A Tire Shredding, Donut Cutting, Turbo Tractor Defies Physics and Good Sense!
This video is absolutely, 100% BangShift approved! What you are going to see below is a guy driving a modified farm tractor powered by a turbobcharged Volvo engine. Built somewhere over in...
Junkyard Gallery: Fleming’s Junkyard – Egg Harbor, New Jersey – Lots Of Neat Rusting Stuff!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Earlier today we showed you a great gallery from the famed, and yearly Pumpkin Run at Fleming’s Junkyard in Egg Harbor, New Jersey. In that gallery we showed you...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Last Week’s Answer And Today’s Inliner Challenge!
Last Friday we threw a photo out for the rabid BangShift readership to identify. We may as well have thrown some rare steaks into the lion pen at the zoo. You all knocked the snot out of that one and...
Gallery: Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2012 – One of the East Coast’s Coolest Gearhead Gatherings!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Harry Fleming is a South Jersey legend and every year in early November he and his friends put on what is quietly becoming one the best attended, unique car...
Jeff Lutz Goes 6.909/215-MPH In His 1957 Chevy at NMCA Houston, Texas Event On Saturday
(Photo by Justin Oney) – Just a quick note of congratulations this Sunday to Jeff Lutz and his son Jeffrey on their titanic 6.90/215-mph lap during the NMCA Houston event this weekend. That was...
Evan Knoll Arrested On Bond Violation Ahead Of Sentencing In Federal Fraud Case – Firearms and Intimidation Involved
Evan Knoll, the one time “king” of drag racing and the man who plead guilty to a multitude of federal tax-fraud charges was arrested on November 8, 2012 for violation the conditions of...
eBay Find: A Certified Bill Thomas Cheetah Continuation Car – Looks Perfect!
The Cheetah was a Chevrolet supported and Bill Thomas spearheaded effort to build a car that could take on the mighty Shelby Cobras that were making a huge impact on the international road racing...
Fantastic Video: Great Action, Jumps, Power Wheelstands, and Fun In Wild Machines At The Silver Lake Sand Dunes!
The Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan are a mecca to fans of sand rails, big trucks, quads, dirt bikes, and anything else that can sling sand and propel its occupants to insane speeds. This video by...
Killer Vintage Video: 1964 Ford Total Performance Promotional Film – Stock Cars, Pikes Peak, and FE Love!
Ford’s so-called Total Performance campaign of the 1960s was probably the most ambitious and widespread motorsports and competition effort of any automaker in the 1960s and possibly ever. From...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Yesterday’s Unobtanium Answer and Today’s Challenge!
Yesterday we showed you a V8 block being machined and asked you to ID it and tell us what was special about that specific mill. Quickly the Chevy W-guesses came pouring in and they were correct. That...
Friday Moment of Zen: A Never Before Published Photo of Jungle Pam Hardy In The Pits At New England Dragway In The Early 1970s
“Jungle Pam” Hardy continues to be a part of the drag racing scene today appearing at shows, nostalgia meets, and other racing events to hang out, be part of the action, and reprise her...
Project Buford T Justice Update: Drag Strip Thrash Squashed By Ma Nature – We Learn Stuff – Plan B!
We had the parts, the car, the tools, and the rough plan. Mother Nature had the upper hand. A couple of Sundays back we left well before daylight broke with Buford T Justice on the trailer, heading...