Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Gallery: More Great Photos From the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Total Coolness
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As we said yesterday, Grippo went whole hog at the 2012 Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival with his camera and this is the second of SIX galleries...
Video: The 2012 Engine Masters Challenge Is ON and Comp Cams Is There to Cover The Action! Learn the Ins and Outs Of The Competition Here!
Popular Hot Rodding’s Engine Masters Challenge has become the defacto yearly slugfest for professional and otherwise hardcore engine builders every year. This year the folks at Comp Cams TV are...
Gallery: The Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Gallery One
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Joe Grippo attended the first ever Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival last weekend outside of Baltimore at the famed Pimlico Race Course. The...
Gallery: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, and Gassers From Goodguys Columbus
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – We’ve run a ton of Doug Garrison’s photos from the Goodguys Columbus show. If anything it highlights the total diversity of cars and trucks that show up...
Gallery: Classic Ford Hot Rods From Goodguys Columbus – Flatheads to Fat Fenders!
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Since we last left you with a gallery dominated by Tr-Five Chevrolets last week, it only makes sense that we fire a salvo back for the lovers of the blue oval. This...
Not Good: Massive Fire At Methanol and Race Fuel Company In Winnipeg, Canada – Firefighters Battling Blaze
Canada’s fickle relationship with race fuel is getting more heated by the minute…literally. Speedway International, a supplier of racing gasoline and methanol to racers all across North...
Wreckage Video: Watch A 1930 Ford Drag Car Skid, Spin, and Flip at the 2012 Jalopy Showdown
Pal o’ BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian was at Beaver Springs Dragway recently to shoot photos and video of the 2012 Jalopy Showdown nostalgia drags. Being her normal awesome self, she got lots of...
Gallery: Tri-Five Chevys and Fords From Goodguys Columbus
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – If there were one era of styling in American automotive history that we wish could be bottled up and re-released at some point, it is the middle 1950s. The chrome,...
Classic Trucks At Goodguys Columbus 2012 – Chevys, Fords, Even A Classic Van or Two!
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Like station wagons, trucks are a super popular sub-set of the hot rodding hobby. As you know from being a loyal BangShift reader, we love ’em in all of their...
Gallery: Cool Station Wagons At Goodguys Columbus 2012
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Doug Garrison recently send us a load of photos from the 2012 Goodguys event in Columbus, Ohio. Instead of dropping them all on you at once, we have broken them up...
Bob Newton – Founder of Hoosier Tire Passes At Age 85
Bob Newton, the founder of Hoosier Racing Tires has died. Newton started the company in 1957 and targeted circle track racers in the south and midwest on both asphalt and dirt tracks. The company...
Chris Economaki – Greatest American Auto Racing Journalist Who Ever Lived – Dead at 91
It is our sad duty to report that Chris Economaki, the legenadary editor and guiding force of the National Speed Sport News has died at age 91. Amazingly, Economaki began selling copies of the NSSN...
Watch Top Fuel Pilot TJ Zizzo Drive The Insano Hypermax Diesel Dragster To Its First 200mph Lap!
TJ Zizzo is a well known and well respected NHRA Top Fuel racer from the greater Chicago area. The guys at Hypermax Engineering, a business that is based around high performance diesel engines are...
eBay Find: A Very Rare K-Code, 4-Speed 1965 Ford Fairlane With Dealer Installed Tri-Power!
We’re a fickle bunch, car people. On the one hand we often fawn over rare, limited production cars, or options, or engines, or dealer installed equipment. Typically taking a car and adding a...