Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
The Catallo Coupe; Beach Boys Album Car Stays in the Family
The Catallo Coupe, a 1960s customized Deuce, is one of the iconic hot rods of the era. Featured on the album cover of the Beach Boys “Little Deuce Coupe,” the car has a neat story and a...
This is What It’s All About: Original Owner of 1963 Galaxie Tells His Story
Here’s one that will make you smile. This is a story by the San Francisco Chronicle about Norm Grib and the 1963 Galaxie his dad bought him in 1963. Grib has driven the car across the country a...
eBay Pick of the Week: Former Car Craft Cover Car Nova
It’s always neat to see cars formerly featured in the print mags hit the auction block on eBay. This particular Nova from a recent Car Craft cover shoot is one tough customer. It’s...
Street Racers Say Detroit Needs a Drag Strip
Street racing in Detroit is apparently alive and well, so much so that the street racers themselves are asking for a drag strip. As is to be expected, no one is paying any attention to them. In a...
Historic and Controversial Mustang On Sale for Massive Money
If you have $5.5 million burning a hole in the bottom of your super yacht, you can own the first 1964 Mustang ever sold to the general public, at least that what’s it is according to...
Monday Time Killer: Everything You’d Ever Want to Know About the Ford 9-Inch
By nature being a gearhead lends itself to being a little geeky. We’re all into part numbers, VIN tag numbers, axle ratios, cubic inch displacement, basically lots of stuff no one else cares...
Wall Street Journal Looks at Internet Automotive Websites, Forgets Us
Our tongue is firmly planted in our cheek with that headline. Click here for an interesting story from the Wall Street Journal that talks about the number of automotive websites that have sprung up...
The LA Times is Out to Crush Your Hot Rod: This Story Will Make You Mad
Daniel Strohl over at Hemmings posted an item on their blog last week regarding an LA Times story that went after the pre-’85 exemption for the Cash for Clunkers program. It’s a maddening...
MSD’s Cash for Cruising Ends Monday: Buy Now and Save NOW
MSD’s Cash for Cruising program is the perfect foil for the worthless Cash for Clunkers mess. It rewards you, the hot rodder, with solid rebates for purchasing and using high quality MSD...
Event Galleries: Milan Dragway’s Heads Up Series and The 2009 Lonestar Rod and Kustom Roundup by MSD’s Todd Ryden
There are a multitude of reasons as to why our sponsors are the best in the industry. One of the biggest is because they’re gearheads to the core just like us, these guys and girls are at the...
It Came From the Forums: Turbo 400 Rebuild, Step by Step Photos
BangShift.com member Jeff Bradley, a professional transmission guy by trade, is currently rebuilding a Turbo 400 transmission for another of our forum members. Jeff has been cool enough to take...
Alrighty Then: Ray Evernham Marries Former Development Driver Erin Crocker; We Tie Mayfield In
Erin Crocker was a developmental driver for Ray Evernham Motorsports back between 2004 and 2007. She also became Evernham’s love interest during that time and last weekend the two were married....
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Clunkers Turning Office Workers Into Executioners
We’re still kind of stuck on Cash for Clunkers, and this NewsDay story is the reason why. Tons of cars have yet to be “killed” using the government’s mandated method of...
Craigslist Pick of the Week: Ford F350 That Looks Stock But Pulls Lots
Lots of the diesel performance guys strut their stuff on the drag strip. We’re completely entertained by 7,000lb trucks that can outrun late-model Mustangs and totally humiliate most...