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Author Archive: Brian Lohnes

Hot Rod Drag Week is Coming, Sign Up Now! Gossip Inside!

Hot Rod Drag Week is just around the corner and if you are getting your heap ready to compete, you only have a couple days left to preregister! September 10th is the final day to save some cash by...

Video Bonanza: Duesenberg Drag Racing!

Recently the Ab Jenkins Memorial Duesenberg Festival of Speed went down in Indiana. The event was a historic gathering of the magnificent American machines and it also featured a Duesenberg drag race...

BangShift Barn Find: A Survivor 1968 Camaro From Ohio

These days it is rare for a “barn find” car to actually be found in a barn, but BangShift member Stiney did just that, scoring this totally awesome 1968 RS Camaro from an Ohio barn. Like...

Book Review: Legendary Corvettes by Randy Leffingwell – Photos by Dave Wendt

The Corvette certainly has a special place in American automotive history. As the only enduring American sports car, the Corvette has carried the Stars and Stripes in the road racing world since the...

Event Gallery: The Orange County Cruisin’ Association Labor Day Cruise 2010

The show and event galleries continue to stream in from our nationwide network of rogue agents. Earlier we took you to Lead East in New Jersey and now we’re headed to Orange County in sunny...

Event Gallery: Lead East 2010

Lead East continues to be one of the most fun, and full, car shows on the East Coast. Founded by Terry Cook to be a massive 1950s party, Lead East features not only cars, but events like a drive in...

Event Coverage: The Kemah, Texas, Kruise, September 2010

BangShift.com’s unrelenting barrage of show coverage continues with this dispatch from Charles Wickam, our Texas, based photos contributor. He once again hit up the Kemah Kruise in Kemah,...

Event Coverage: The 2010 Symco Shakedown, With Fire!

After seeing event coverage from both coasts, BangShift reader Shane Hansen sent us a load of 400 photos from the 2010 Symco Shakedown that happened back in August. The event is a traditional hot rod...

Event Gallery: The Goodguys Blue Suede Cruise 2010, Norwalk, Ohio

The Goodguys Blue Suede Cruise is one of the biggest and coolest car show/drag races held anywhere in the country. Combine the true awesomeness of Summit Motorsports Park with a humongous crowd of...

Event Gallery: The Radir Wheels Dead Man’s Curve Hot Rod Party 2010

The Radir Wheels Dead Man’s Curve Wild Hot Rod Party, held at Rich Conklin Farm in Montville, New Jersey, is the unofficial kickoff to the massive Lead East car show and ’50s party in...

Be There: The Yellow Bullet Nationals Happening This Weekend

The YellowBullet Nationals are set to begin today and run through this weekend at Cecil County Dragway in Rising Sun, Maryland. The race will feature Pro Mods, Outlaw 10.5 action, Outlaw Drag Radial,...

Caption This Photo: Cherry Bomb Glasspack Undergoes Full Technical Inspection

After blowing the muffler on Goliath sky-high we sent the photos to Matt Graves over at Cherry Bomb. Being a muffler maven we thought he’d get a kick out of the carnage. He did, and then...

Extreme Wreckage Video: Sleepy Woman Drifts Jeep Into Convenience Store

Cars crashing into buildings make for good video. So long as no one gets hurt and the only wounds are suffered by bags of Cheetos and Funyuns we’re good with reveling in the carnage. This video...

Project Car Spotlight: A Mean, Green, 428 Powered, 1967 Fairlane Sedan

BangShift forum member Stage1Scott has been wrenching on his 1967 Ford Fairlane project for some time now, and the progress has been fun to watch. Scott sold a 455 powered Buick Skylark that he had...