Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
1967 Buick Funny Car Returns Home
A member called musclecarjohn over at Pro-Touring.com has posted a thread describing the bad ass and very unusual Buick Funny Car that his dad ran in 1967. What’s really odd is that the car was...
Video: One Bad Mother Hill Climber
We need to get ourselves to a hill climb some time soon. We don’t mean the European style, winding road up a hill, hill climb. Nope, we mean haul ass up a sand or dirt hill with a blown big...
Guzzler Sales Soar; Kelly Blue Book is “Embarrassed for the American Buying Public”
A story on MSNBC.com, via Forbes, reports that sales of poor-gas-mileage cars have risen in past months, mostly thanks to gas prices that are lower than they were at this time last year. Big news...
Former HealthSouth CEO’s Shady Car Dealings Come Out in Court
Richard Scrushy is the former CEO of healthcare provider HealthSouth. He was ordered by a judge to pay $2.8 billion in damages because of the role he had in massive amounts of fraud that involved the...
The SEMA Show is Coming Next Week: Make BangShift.com Your Stop for Coverage
Next week, the annual SEMA show descends upon the fine city of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the yearly gathering of the automotive aftermarket where companies introduce products, showcase project cars,...
Ebay Pick of the Week: 1956 Chevy 3100 Panel Truck with Napco 4WD Conversion
This 1956 Chevy 3100 panel truck would have qualified as an eBay Pick of the Week even in 2WD form, but with a NAPCO 4WD conversion, this was a no-brainer. It’s wild to think about an era when...
Video: Monster Wheelstand!
We have to thank BangShift.com member KSJ1 for posting a link to this amazing wheelstand video in our forum. The wheelstand shown in the video below is incredibly badass, and the the YouTube...
How the NHRA is Weathering the Financial Storm
We would not exactly be breaking news if we told you that the economy sucked like a dealer lot full of mini-vans. When stuff is rocky like this, the strong, creating, and innovative survive. We came...
Mayfield on ESPN: Takes Shots at NASCAR, Admits Career is Over
Jeremy Mayfield appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Sunday morning. It was his first nationally televised one-on-one interview since being suspended indefinitely from NASCAR for failing a...
Monday Time Killer: The Massive Photo Gallery at RacingSportsCars.com
If you are a fan of sports car racing in all of its myriad of forms, chances are you’ve checked in over at RacingSportsCars.com, as it’s a wealth of info on the subject. Our favorite part...
Friday Excuse to Go Home and Drink: Drinking Leads To Inventing Stuff
For years we’ve bought into the theory that drinking does not exactly increase your level of smarts. There have been a couple incidents involving injuries and fire to back up that line of...
Another Shelby-Licensed Something-Or-Other Sells For $330,000
This week, BangShift.com has had a frenzy of talk about special-edition Mustangs. Well, here’s another one, and to be honest, we can’t really tell what it means that it’s “the...
Great Read: A Short History of the Snake and the Mongoose
You certainly do not need to be a drag racing geek to have heard of the great rivalry between Don “The Snake” Prudhomme and Tom “Mongoose” McEwen. The two were part of what is...
eBay Pick: 1985 El Camino Sporting a Caddy Bum
This is a confusing piece. isn’t it? Normally people turn stuff into El Caminos by adding a truck like bed. Few people actually modify the Elky to be more car like. The seller of this creation...