Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Watch a Blown Vega Wreck at the 100-Foot Drags in Lethbridge, Canada
Lethbridge, Canada is a city located out in the Alberta Province of the Great White North and it plays host to an event called, “Street Machine Weekend” each summer. As you’ll see...
Slap Fight: Brian Vs Chad – We Insult Each Other Over Turbos and Nitrous
(Editor’s note: Welcome to Slap Fight! We’re going to try and make this a weekly part of the BangShift blog lineup. Long story short, this is a space where Chad and Brian take the...
Buford T Justice, Our 1987 9C1 Chevy Caprice Goes Through Final Testing Before the Upgrades Begin!
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Take a good long look at this wallowing sad sack. It is the last time you’ll see ol’ Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice in stock form. Because we are...
Epic Photo Sequence: First Time Pro Daredevil Jumps His Daily Driver Lincoln Over a Bunch of Vans!
(Photos by Chuck Clark) – This is total greatness. Ohio native Michael “Madman” Porter recently jumped a 1980s Lincoln over a bunch of vans at the Crawford County Fair, which was...
RacingJunk Find: A Turbine Powered 1983 Datsun 280zx
Historically, the only Datsun Z-cars we have cars about were the one jammed full of snotty small block or rumbling big block engines. We can now add another variation to that theme with the finding...
Roadside Find Gallery: Vintage Stock Cars and Ancient Doodlebug Tractors
(Photos by Jeremy George) – Today we’ve been showing you all kinds of high zoot, race car stuff in the galleries but this one is proof that there is still some damned awesome stuff living...
Nostalgia Drags Gallery: Mo-Kan Dragway’s 50th Anniversary Race – Hot Rod, Wheelstanders, and More!
(Photos by Steve Wilson) – Mo-Kan Dragway in Asbury, Missouri is one of the neatest old strips in the country. The local racers, fans, and track management celebrated the track’s 50th...
Event Gallery: The 2012 Motor State Challenge – Pro Touring Bad-Assed-Ness!
(Photos and words by Bob Chiluk) – Lane Automotive in Michigan probably had no idea that a few years ago if they sponsored an event if it would fly.Well fly it did and like they could not...
Gallery: The York US30 Reunion and Muscle Car Madness – Historic Drag Cars and Bitchin’ Muscle!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The York US30 Reunion and Muscle Car Madness show has become one of the biggest and coolest nostalgia drag racing and car shows in the country. The event celebrates the...
Question of the Day: Are You Doing Anything BangShifty This Weekend?
We’re smack dab in the middle of the summer and that means that we’re smack dab in the middle of “car season” for those of us not lucky enough to live in climes that are...
Someone Finally Made an RX-7 Cool…By Shoving a Jet Engine Up Its Backside (w/Video)
Mazda recently announced that they were finally putting a bullet into their rotary engine program, marking the beginning of the end for the weirdo little engines. We know that they can be made to run...
RacingJunk Find: A 1965 Coronet Packing A Naturally Aspirated Keith Black Hemi!
When we saw this 1965 Coronet drag car for sale on RacingJunk it struck us as a cool and very clean nod to the cars that terrorized drag strips in the middle 1960s with modern touches. It obviously...
Tune In: Live Streaming Sportsman Drag Racing This Weekend – The World Footbrake Challenge!
This weekend the World Footbrake Challenge goes down at Bristol, Tennessee. Thunder Valley will have a field of nearly 400 of the deadliest, most cold blooded footbrake drag racers in the world and...
