Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Breaking News: BangShift Welcomes Snooky’s Vintage Originals as a Sponsor
BangShift.com is incredibly proud to announce that Snooky’s Vintage Originals has joined our family of sponsors. Snooky’s is THE place to score killer drag racing and hot rod themed...
Guerilla Shop Tour: Chuck’s Classic Cars, AKA Mopar Heaven
When our pal Matt Graves at Cherry Bomb told us that he was stopping by a shop and was going to send us some photos we were excited to see the photos. When we actually saw what was at this place, we...
Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy Airplanes
The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to...
Drag Gallery: A Day at the Digs from Houston Motorsports Park
Our Texas based photo correspondent Charles Wickam has been a busy dude. Recently he went and took a shop tour at the School of Automotive Machinists and he also attended the drags at Houston...
American Thunder Video: A 1964 Fairlane 500 Hauls Ass on the ‘Ring
This is some of the greatest footage we’ve ever seen. This is video of a (modern) Holman Moody built 1964 Fairlane 500 being raced in Germany on the famed Nurburgring. It is in some sort of...
Resto of NASCAR 1965 Impala Proceeds at Amazing Pace
We admire guys who take on a project and then really get after it. They have the car blown apart within a week and progress gets made on a day to day basis. That’s a skill set we haven’t...
The Top 11: Best Foreign Cars to Swap Domestic V8 Grunt Into
The AC Ace would probably be little more than another entry on a list of obscure British cars if it hadn’t been for Carroll Shelby’s decision to buy them in bulk and stuff Ford motors...
Caption This Photo: Charles Sleeping on the Job Again
A few weeks back we showed you a photo of our photo contributor Charles Wickam sleeping on the wall at Bowling Green’s Beech Bend Raceway. What we failed to tell you was that there was another...
New Parts: FAST LSXr 102MM Intake Manifold For LS3 Engines
Got yourself a rectangle port LS3-style motor? Looking for a hot intake manifold to boost your power? FAST has just released the right thing for you. Their new LSXr 102mm intake manifold has proven...
Old School Carnage: Killer World-Wide Footage From the 1980’s
The 1980s were filled with lots of great racing. They were also filled with lots of great wrecking as this video shows. Taking footage from all over the world, you’ll see everything from NASCAR...
Barnstormin’: Thoughts During a Short Ride Home From the Land Speed Races in Loring, Maine
Sure the ride was eight hours, but in comparison to the vast majority of competitors at the 2010 LTA Meet at the former Loring Air Force Base, my trip home was weak sauce. Many are literally still...
RacingJunk Find: A Cool LSR 1927 Ford Rear-Engine Roadster
After spending one of the better weekends of our gearhead life at Loring, Maine last weekend in the thick of the LSR action, we’re stuck on the idea of having a car to screw around with in the...
Loring Timing Association 2010 Meet — Sunday
It’s all over. The 2010 Loring Timing Association’s 2010 LSR meet is in the books. New members of the 200mph club were announced, and the final passes were made. We’d love to give...