Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Caption This Photo: A BangShift Approved Replica Lamborghini
Consider this a bit of a tease. Tomorrow we’re going to bring you a gallery of photos from a land speed race held in Sweden…on ice. We’ve gotten some preview photos from Swedish...
Event Gallery: 2011 Motorsports Expo – Syracuse, NY
BangShifter Jeremy George recently attended the 2011 Motorsports Expo, held at the fairgrounds in Syracuse, NY. The show featured cars and stuff from multiple genres of racing, but the most prevalent...
Event Gallery: The 2011 Pacific Street Car Association Spring Break Super Show
As we continue to assault you with galleries today, we’re going to switch gears from show to GO! BangShift reader Zach McNary attended the PSCA Spring Break Super Show, held at Fontana,...
Event Gallery: Goodguys Scottsdale 2011 – Scottsdale, Arizona
Our own Chad Reynolds serves as the announcer for the autocross events held at Goodguys Rod and Custom Association shows across the country. When on his lunch break, Chad grabs his camera and hauls...
Event Gallery: The Temecula Rod Run – Temecula, California
The Temecula Rod run is one of the neater car events that happens at this time in the year. The show, which draws over 500 cars that show, shine, cruise, and parade around the Old Town area of...
BangShift Project Spotlight: A 1972 Camaro That Stepped Right Out of a 1970s Time Warp
For ages, the looks of 1970s street machines have been scorned. Their ass high stance, too big tires, square hood scoops, velocity stacks, and gold anodized everything led to the monochromatic pastel...
The 2010 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Television Show Airs Tonight!
The Optima Ultimate Street Car Challenge is truly the premier competition amongst the best Pro Touring cars in the country, and the world. Taking place each year, the weekend after the SEMA show...
AFCO Racing Joins the BangShift Sponsor Family
We are proud and honored to announce that AFCO Racing, one of the most diversified companies in the high performance aftermarket has joined on as a sponsor of BangShift.com. With product lines...
Painful Fail Video: A Snowmobile Crosses a Creek and Eats a Tree
Here’s a video that shows how one can go from hero to bone crushing failure in about half a second. In the film, you’ll see a snowmobile launch off to skip across a creek somewhere out in...
Awesome Roadside Find: A Stepside Cadillac Eldorado
Intrepid BangShift reader Eagle Kammback was cruising the streets in his native New Jersey when he came upon what may be the single greatest roadside find in the history of the internet. This is an...
Video: A Fuel Injected Pro Stock Hemi Tuning Session on Ray Barton’s Dyno
We teased you the other day with a short video of an 1100hp full race Hemi screaming into the night through the exhaust system of the dyno at Ray Barton Racing Engines, now here’s the whole...
New Jersey Motorsports Park Declares Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
These are tough times to be running a race track in. Recently, the operators of New Jersey Motorsports Park, a multi-use racing facility in Millville, NJ declared Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in order to...
Stop and Gawk: Header Flaming Wheelstand Drag Race Photo Coolness
Kevin Blalock’s photos have appeared on the pages of BangShift before, but they have always shown cars exploding, on fire, or barfing parts. This time he sent one along that is just pure...
Racing Junk Find: A Beautiful Bonneville Racer 1955 Chevy
While there are probably a number of practical racing arguments against owning this absolutely awesome 1955 Chevy LSR machine, the non-practical reasons for owning it number in the thousands. The...