Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Why Does This Awesome Not Happen More Often: 1955 Ford Steel Body On Stock Car Chassis
Doesn’t it seem like, especially with the popularity of nostalgia drag racing that there would be nostalgia stock car racing going crazy all over the country? For as many disaffected NASCAR fas...
This Hand Made Steam Engine Took 30 Years To Build And Now It Can Be Yours
Hot rodding is really a singular activity. We all enjoy hanging out with other hot rodders but the things that we do individually, we do for ourselves. Maybe other people like them, maybe they become...
Live Out Your Altered Wheelbase Fantasies With This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere!
This is so freaking awesome we can hardly stand it. You are looking at an altered wheelbase 1965 Plymouth Belvedere that is street legal and packing a cross-ram equipped hemi for power. The inside of...
Holley Releases 500 CFM Marine 2-Barrel Avenger Carb – Tuned and Tested For Salt and Freshwater Environments
We know that there are loads of BangShifters out there who like to have fun on the water when they are no in their land locked hot rods. Holley knows that feeding your boat fuel is as (actually more)...
Nicest One On Earth: This 1966 Ford F-260 (yes, 260) Truck Is Incredible
Sometimes you have to hate your friends. I have been searching for a project/old hunk of something for a little while now. I’ve been in this mindset of finding a cool, old four wheel drive...
Aeromotive Named the Official Fuel System for Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School
It is always neat when two great teams get together for their mutual benefit. In this case it is the team at Aeromotive and the team at Frank Hauley’s Drag Racing School. This is a great deal...
Bob Tasca Jr’s Tunnel Port 427 Powered 1968 Torino Surfaces Ater 35 Years Of Slumber!
There’s something to be said for being the son of a legend, especially when said legend is at the height of his hot rodding powers. Bob and Carl Tasca are the sons of the late “Big...
The American Powertrain Tuesday Shift: A Supercharged Straight Eight, A Clutch Pedal, And A Hill Climb
We live in an exceptionally neat age where things we see on a magazine page will suddenly roar to life in front of our very eyes in video form. That’s exactly what you are about to watch. The...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Embarrassing Mechanical Mistake You’ve Made?
For all you yukksters out there, skip answers like, “Buying a Ford/Chevrolet/Dodge” that’s not the intention of this question. No, we want to know a screw up you have made while...
Hover Torquer: This Video Feature Of A Wildly Low Slung 1958 Ford C550 Is Awesome – Cummins Power, Burnouts, More!
This is one wild truck. It has the visual impact of a sledgehammer and the truck has a cool backstory and build story as well. The 1958 Ford C550 cab was found intact in a junkyard and the cab along...
This Little 1970 Datsun U521 Crew Cab Truck Is Rare, Weird, and Kind Of Awesome
As we speed toward our 30,000th blog item here at BangShift there are some things that continue to surprise us. Firstly is seeing a car or a type of car that we have never seen before or never knew...
Watch This Awesome Saab Sonnett Bonneville Record Holder Make A Dyno Pull With Its 3-Cylinder 2-Stroke Engine!
The Saab Sonnett was a minuscule sports car offered by the Swedish company in three different generations. Small, light, front wheel drive, and fun to operate, they were not sold in huge numbers here...
Got A 2015-2018 Polaris RZR 900 or 900S? You Need This New Flowmaster XDR Bolt on Exhaust
The world of side by side and UTV performance is expanding at a rate faster than the galaxy is. These things have become a hot rodder’s dream with stout engines from the factory that can be hot...
Want To Build The Coolest Small Block Ford You Can? Buy This Gurney-Weslake Top End Package – Vintage Power!
We know, we know. Modern heads make more power. Modern heads move more air. Modern heads have decades and decades of development behind them. All thats fine but there ain’t a modern head that...