Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
A Year In Photos: David Whealon’s Photographic Highlights of 2018 (Part 3)
(Photos by David Whealon) – In this third installment of David Whealon’s photographic year in review we get a look at everything from top fuel championship dragsters, monsters trucks on...
Wow! There Is A Legit 1969 ZL-1 Aluminum Big Block 427 Chevy For Sale On Ebay Right Now
There are certain things that still have an aura about them from the muscle car era, more than a half century after they first appeared. In terms of righteous Chevrolet performance engines, the...
RideTech Comparo Video: Bone Stock, StreetGrip, and Coil Over A-Bodies On The Test Track
Over the years we have watched RideTech grow and evolve into one of the premier suspension companies in the automotive aftermarket. From their days as an air-specific company to their development of...
A Year In Photos: David Whealon’s Favorite 2018 Images (Part 2)
(Photos by David Whealon) – We’re back with more images from the lens of David Whealon. This guy stalked the Southeast like a photographic jungle cat last year blasting images of NHRA...
Kentuckiana Truck Pullers Association Action! Hookin’ and Pullin’ With Trucks and Tractors
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Do you want to hear one definition for ‘idiot’? Go to a truck and tractor pull at a county fair to take photos just one week after having bladder...
Over, Under, Sideways, Down: A Year Of Launches, Close Calls, Tire Smoke, and Wheelies!
Our pal Tommy Lee Byrd is an awesome writer and photographer. During the 2018 drag racing season he decided to up the ante and shoot video and many of the events he attended. As Tommy gets around his...
The Year In Photos: David Whealon Picks His Finest Images From 2018 (Part 1)
(Photos by David Whealon) – As we continue to melt your eyeballs with killer photos from our pool of BangShift contributors, it is time we turn our attention to the varied work of David...
A Year In Photos: Benoit Pigeon Shares His Favorite Images From 2018 – Great Stuff!
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – We’re pounding you with the killer 2018 year in review photo blogs from our contributors and that’s the way we drew it up. Coming back off of our...
A Year in Photos: Joe Grippo Shares His Favorite Images Of 2018 – Great Stories As Well!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – It is a few days before Christmas as I tap out this post which means we have BangShifted our way through another 12 months. Now it’s time to take a glimpse...
Best of 2019: This Awesome Chart From COMP Cams Compares Valvetrain Life Cycles In Different Applications
Hot rodding is a numbers game, right? Whether we are talking horsepower, drag strip numbers, heck, even the price of parts. Numbers rule our lives when it comes to cars. But there are some numbers we...
Crushing Video: Watch A Varied Pile Of Old Cars Meet Their End With Hydraulic Pressure – Ouch
Ya know, a part of me really struggled with this. Should I share a video from a channel that has a load of them that depict the workings of a wrecking yard car crusher? Does this run against every...
Photo Highlight Reel: Mike Brooks Picks His Favorite Photos From The Year That Was
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Mike Brooks is one of BangShit’s most stalwart contributors. He and his Cadillac 500 powered C10 really get around during the season and when it is snowing and...
Best of 2019: Watch The Awesome ‘Ole Tater Hauler 1951 GMC Wheelstander Make A Wheels Up Rip At The Dragstrip
There are some things that are better left unchanged. Your grandmother’s recipe for mashed potatoes that requires three pounds of butter, and original hemi engine inside a 1960s muscle car, and...
