Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Best of BangShift 2010: Up Close and Personal With Carl Tasca’s 2010 Mustang Cobra Jet
When we heard that 2010 Cobra Jet #27 (of 50) was at Tube Chassis Designz for the installation of a parachute, we dropped everything and headed over to check out the car. The 2010 edition of the...
Best of BangShift 2010: Insane Icelandic Hillclimb Action
Icelandic hillclimb racers must hate gravity. There’s just no other way to explain why they attempt to race their tube chassis Jeeps and trucks up near vertical cliff faces, often with...
Best of BangShift 2010: Jason Calderon Climbs the Ladder in a Beautiful Chevy II
One of the great benefits of drag racing in New England is the fall weather. Cool air and moderate temperatures create situations where motors can be set on kill and the track hooks like it is coated...
Video Bonanza: Hurst Drag Racing Film Collection – The Best Set of Old Drag Racing Movies We’ve Ever Seen
We think we’ve found the end of the internet in terms of vintage drag racing videos. This nearly hour long compendium of videos was produced by the Hurst Company and it chronicles the US...
Video: The Mystery of the Psycho Pulling Truck Has Been Solved, Sadly
Long about a year ago, we ran an item on the blog about George Stinnett’s legendary Psycho pulling truck. The old Ford Econoline truck became famous for dragging the sled with the front...
PHR’s Johnny Hunkins Releases Rock and Roll Album…and it Actually Rocks!
Most musclecar guys are familiar with the name Johnny Hunkins, the editor of Popular Hot Rodding magazine. Each month PHR endeavors to bring us a steady stream of industry and product news,...
Epic Drag Video Bonanza: The 1980 Popular Hot Rodding Championships
This is the longest and most complete set of videos we have ever found on YouTube with respect to a single drag race. It’ll blow your afternoon up and you will thank us for it. Run at US 131...
NEWS: George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip is Up For Sale
In news that really hit us out of nowhere, George Ray’s Wildcat Drag Strip in Paragould, Arkansas is for sale. The historic track has been in operation since 1961, when the late George Ray...
Project Car Spotlight: A Clean 1967 Camaro Goes From Mild to Wild With Blown LS Power
BangShift member c6matt may have set the speed standard for documenting the build of his killer 1967 Camaro. Within the span of a few hours after joining up he had the whole life story of his Camaro...
Book Review: Chevy Powered Drag Racing by Lou Hart
Lou Hart is on a hot streak. We were enthralled with his Pro Stock history book, which we reviewed last week, and here we find ourselves heaping praise on another title, his ode to Chevy power....
Racing Junk Find: The Wildest Jeep in the West
Man, we have to find a way to hit the sand dunes some day. Why? Because bat poop crazy stuff like this Jeep packing a 600ci big blog is there. This baby must be able to throw sand grains into low...
Video: A Bitchin’ 1961 International Dump Truck Commercial
When we watched this old International truck commercial from 1961 it made us kind of sad. Why? Mainly because we live in a world where we’ll never see another ad for a “personal”...
eBay Find: A Very Old, Very Cool, Scotty Fenn Built Slingshot Dragster
There are lots of old dragsters out there for sale, but few have the cool factor this one has. Based around an original Chassis Research K-88 chassis, the car was built in 1958 and has a worked over...