Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Hilarious Video: A Crazy, Dirt Track, Big Rig Race at the Webster County Fair
Talk about grassroots racing. Take an open area, throw some huge old equipment tires around the edges and center of said area, form an oval about a quarter mile in length, and allow people to race...
Crazy Video: A Turbocharged Camaro That Hates to Have the Front Tires on the Ground
This incredible video, showing Texan Kevin Cram in his twin turbo’d Camaro, beats all we’ve ever seen. Powered by a Proline Race Engines-built big block Chevy, and obviously dialed in by...
New Aluminum LS Race Block From RHS
Forgive us if there is drool on the screen. We’re slobbering over this new cast aluminum LS race block from RHS. It features all the stuff that you’d expect from a hard core cylinder case...
Edwards to Face Punishment for Wrecking Keselowski on Purpose in Atlanta
When Carl Edwards lined up his ramming sights on Brad Keselowski’s car last weekend and sent him flying in the air toward the catch fence, NASCAR was faced with its first challenge to the...
Champion Speed Shop Top Fuel Team Wins March Meet for the First Time
One of the biggest stories to come out of the 52nd Bakersfield March Meet was the epic Top Fuel victory of the Champion Speed Shop Van Dyke Motorsports team. Aside from this being the first ever...
Crazy Video: 8-second passes on a small tire and only 200ci
While it’s kind of impossible to call a race car a sleeper, we’d never guess that a Cortina packing 200ci of straight six Ford power would be uncorking 8 second lap times all day long....
Racing Junk Find: Killer 1963 Catalina Draggin’ Wagon
We’ve featured more than a couple drag race station wagons on these pages before but none have been as decorated as this killer 1963 Pontiac Catalina Super Stocker wagon. The car ran at the...
Gallery: The Mickey Thompson Display at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum
We had the chance to spend some time at the Mickey Thompson exhibit that was recently installed in the Wally Parks NHRA Museum in Pomona, California. Thompson has been called the greatest hot rodder...
Gallery: 200 Photos of Cars at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum
Since we showed you the Mickey Thompson exhibit now running at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum in Pomona, California, we thought that we’d show you the rest of the place too! We’ve added lots...
Killer Vintage Drag Footage: Pacific Raceways 1963
In less than 24 hours, BangShift.com’s live streaming broadcast of the 52nd Bakersfield March Meet will kick off, and to get you ready, here’s some vintage drag racing footage from 1963....
eBay Find: The Barris Tastee Freez T
We were tipped off to another interesting tidbit that has come up for sale on eBay, the George Barris Kustoms built Tastee Freez T-bucket. If you’re wondering what the hell a Tastee Freez is,...
Car Show Gallery: Billetproof Florida 2010
Show season is kicking off in a big way, if you haven’t noticed our recent flurry of show galleries than you’re not reading BangShift.com enough! The latest entry from the field comes...
Champion Speed Shop Team to Debut New Retroliner at March Meet
The Champion Speed Shop Nostalgia AA/FD team is best known for campaigning their small block Chevy powered slingshot. Last year, they rolled out a kick ass version with a streamlined cockpit. This...