Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Project Car UPDATE: Pro Stock Bike Champ Eddie Krawiec’s Drag Radial 2000 Camaro
ABOUT EDDIE KRAWIEC’S DRAG RADIAL 2000 CAMARO 2008 NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Eddie Krawiec and DMC Racing have teamed up to build a bad ass 2000 Camaro for Drag...
Caption this Photo: Go Halves on a Duster?
Mike Janis debuted his newest “Widow Maker” Pro Mod at the first ADRL race of the season. Janis runs the machine in the ADRL’s Pro Extreme class and it was built by Andy McCoy Race...
eBay Find: 1962 Pontiac Catalina Super Duty That’s Nearly All Original
In the early 1960s, if you wanted to be the fastest guy on the block, you ponied up for a Pontiac. If you wanted to be the fastest guy in the county you went to the biggest Pontiac dealer you could...
Roadside Find: A Killer 1953 Dodge Dually Truck!
Yesterday, as Chad was recovering from his exhaustive video work at the rain delayed 2011 March Meet, we loaded up the kiddos and our wife, setting off for a Sunday cruise in our daily driver pickup....
BangShift Question of the Day: Do You Have a Personalized License Plate?
We were out on a Sunday cruise this past weekend and saw a bunch of personalized license plates adorning everything from street rods to weenie hybrids. Some were good (like the one in the lead photo)...
Event Gallery: The 2011 Keystone Nationals Truck and Tractor Pull
We’ve been all over the country already today with event and show galleries, and now we’re headed north to Pennsylvania. This is a gallery of photos from the 2011 Keystone Nationals...
Collection Gallery: The Jim Henderson Collection – Mobile, Alabama
BangShift member Charles Schryver has a bad ass little six cylinder Falcon. He’s also a member of the Falcon Club of America which was having their Southern Regional meeting in Pensacola,...
Show Gallery: The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Car Show
We’re continuing our galleries from all corners of the country today by taking you to an Arizona car show held at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. BangShift forum member Joe Haber, who is an...
Massive Drag Gallery: The 2011 ADRL CarSafe Dragapalooza – Houston, Texas
Drag racing season in the USA is officially in full swing with the ADRL’s opening race having gone down last weekend. The 2011 CarSafe DragaPalooza VII was a strong opening shot for an ADRL...
The Parting Shift Rerun: The Coolest Job in the World, Driving an F1 Engine and Trans on a Test Stand
We’ve seen some awesome automotive jobs in our day, but the guy featured in this video has the best one hands down. The video is from the early 1990s and it shows a Renault V10 Formula One...
BangShift Poll: What’s Your Favorite Brand of American Car?
We’re unabashed fans of American iron here on the pages of BangShift and we know lots of you out there in reader land are, too. While we’re not brand loyalists in the classical sense,...
Project Car Update: Killer Fabrication and Progress on the Pro Street, 1948 Chevy Fleetline
BangShift member Pro Fleetline may not have been ultra creative with his forum handle, but boy is he talented when it comes to rod building. His project, a wicked 1948 Chevy Fleetline, jumped off of...
BangShift Will Broadcast the March Meet Finals This Saturday!
With the biblical weather that descended on Bakersfield last weekend, the final competition rounds of the March Meet were postponed until this weekend. We’re here to tell you that BangShift,...