Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
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...
Cruise Gallery: The Wings-To-Go Cruise Night – Burlington, North Carolina
(Photos by Dennis White) – Our newest addition to the BangShift contributor army is North Carolina’s Dennis White. This is the second cruise night gallery Dennis has sent over to us and...
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,...