Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Drag Gallery: Action From The Strip At The Mickey Thompson Street Machine Shootout – Ozark Raceway Park
(Photos by Cory McMahon) – Missourri’s Ozark Raceway Park is a cool facility that hosts a number of shootout events over the course of the season. The track is an older facility and they...
Beautiful Bonneville Video: James Hoegh Talks About Riding the Confederate X132 Combat On The Salt – Beyond Awesome
As gearheads, we’re all a little weird. We see the world in a different way than the average person on the street. There’s a reason that the tears flow like water at the awards ceremony...
Car Show Gallery: Super Run 2012 – Henderson, Nevada – Cool Cruise and Killer Cars!
(Photos by Colin Johnson) – BangShifter Colin Johnson recently attended a really neat event in Nevada called the “Super Run”. This yearly event is a four day affair held in...
Video: Watch the Preview For the Upcoming Optima Faceoff TV Mini-Series on SPEED
With the onset of fall and the approach of the SEMA show, we’re also getting ready to start looking forward to the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational which is held each year in Pahrump,...
Race Gallery: ChumpCar Action Photos From Shelton, Washington – 100% BS Approved Low Buck Fun!
(Photos by D.V. Klenak) – If you have not heard of the ChumpCar World Series, you must be living under a rock. The low buck, high fun, racing series has been around for years and they run races...
Chrysler Shaking Down Dealers For $25,000 In Order To Sell Viper – Exclusivity Is Expensive!
The word surrounding the upcoming 2013 Viper has been “exclusive”. Chrysler is trying to move the car upmarket in image from it’s hairy, Cobra like roots and will do so in several...
Video: More Than Five Minutes of Fires, Crashes, and Explosions From Aussie Burnout Contests!
Showing this video to a person not familiar with the level of insanity that pervades Aussie burnout contests would probably put them into a state of shock. After all, how often do you see a car smoke...
Update: Hotchkis Suspension & AFCO Bushings Transform Our 9C1 Caprice
Well we can officially say that Project Buford T Justice is underway and the transformation from a sad sack, 196,000 mile ex-police vehicle into a fun to drive tire shredder is under way. Using basic...
Video: Watch Lingenfelter Performance Engineering’s COPO #19 Make The Quickest COPO Run Ever At Norwalk
Of all the awesome stuff I saw at the inaugural Lingenfelter Performance Nationals last weekend, it was the run you are about to watch below that stole the whole show. It was the combination of Kurt...
eBay Find: A Crazed, Maniacal Gasser Project That Needs Finishing (And Someone Brave Enough to Drive It)
BangShift reader Dustin Salsi gets credit for tipping us off to this totally wild 1956 Ford gasser project that is currently for sale on eBay. The wild engine set back, the suicide spring front end,...
Roadside Find: A Mopar Trar Built Tough With Ford Stuff
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Greg is quickly becoming the king of discovering oddities here at BS. Last week we showed you the jet powered mobility scooter that he spied and shot photos of and...
Watch A Wild Australian Drag Wreck – Firebird Literally Takes Flight! (Driver OK)
BangShift reader Johnny Gaudette tipped us off to a cool YouTube channel that belongs to an Aussie dude who shoots drag races. In rolling through some of his clips, we stumbled upon this crazy video...
Roadside Find: A 1973 Plymouth Wagon With Garlits History That Isn’t Exactly What It Seems to Be
When BangShift reader Bruce Bridges sent us an email that said he had seen a cool old Plymouth wagon at a large used car dealer out in the California desert we thought it was interesting. When he...
Roadside Find: A USA Built Mobility Scooter That Could Whip The Ass Of the 70 MPH British One!
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Yesterday we showed you video of a modified personal mobility scooter running 70mph with the help of a motorcycle engine and transmission. That was all fine and dandy,...