Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Junkyard Gallery: A Look at Fleming’s Junkyard in New Jersey
Intrepid BangShift photo contributor Joe Grippo recently attended the infamous Pumpkin Run car show which takes place in the totally awesome Fleming’s Junkyard located in Egg Harbor, NJ. He...
BangShift Book Review: Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers
If you are a fan or collector of old car magazines, this is one that needs to hit your shelf in a hurry. Hot Rod: All the Covers by Drew Hardin and the editors of Hot Rod Magazine tells the tale of...
SEMA 2010 Question: Crazy or Cool?
Would you buy or build your kid a half scale monster truck? While junior dragsters, quarter midgets, and small racing karts have a cute factor, this Baby Huey has a fright factor. As you can see by...
Great Read: Proving That Drag Racing is the World’s Loudest Sport
Bangshifters certainly know that nitromethane powered drag racing vehicles are the most bone chattering loud cars on Earth. Others outside the realm of straight line fever don’t, however. ESPN...
SEMA Gallery: The Friday Afternoon Show Vehicle Exodus
One of the neater parts of the whole SEMA experience is watching the myriad of cars, trucks, race vehicles, hot rods, kustoms, and other SEMA show vehicles pour out of the Las Vegas Convention Center...
Not BangShift Approved: The Corvette Body Kit to End All Corvette Body Kits
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re dropping this on you. Yesterday we showed you the body kit to convert your 2010 Camaro into a 1969 “looking” Camaro,...
BangShift Approved: MIT Kids Build Space Camera For Pocket Change
One of life’s great ironies is that simple solutions to problems are often determined by brilliant people. Such was the case when two MIT kids came up with an idea for a cheap, and we mean...
SEMA 2010: Horsing Around
Lots of serious business goes down at the SEMA show every year. Hell, we conducted some of our own. That being said, by the end of the week virtually everyone is looped out on a lack of sleep,...
Project Goliath Update: We Install All Six of Our New Firestones!
After picking our freshly refurbished wheels and newly mounted Firestone tires from the tire shop, we hot footed to the airport for SEMA 2010. Having not installed them before we left on the trip,...
Dyno Video: Everything Was Fine Until He Hit the Gas
This dyno video starts with lots of promise. Seeing what looks to be a Pro Mod style car with twin turbos bolted to the front of it guarantees some type of entertainment. There’s lots of...
SEMA 2010 Question: Is this Cool or Lame?
A company named Innovation Retrokits had two vehicles on display at the 2010 SEMA show. Both were 2010 Camaros. One wore the nose of a 1969 Camaro standard nose and the other wore that of an RS....
BangShift Approved: New Air Boxes in the Spectre Performance Pro Fab Line
The Spectre Performance booth was busier than all Hell last week at SEMA. The Speed by Spectre streamliner was on prominent display as was the huge display trailer…still connected to the big...
SEMA 2010 Video: We Tour the Cherry Bomb 1968 Disturbing the Peace Camaro
When Cherry Bomb’s Matt Graves told us about the company’s “Disturbing the Peace” Camaro at SEMA 2009 we were cautiously optimistic. Matt told us that there were several...