Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Would You Have The Guts To Keep Your Foot In It Like This Logging Truck Driver? (Video)
When it comes to tough driving jobs, hauling logs is one of the hardest. The roads are often very treacherous, the weather in mountainous regions can be terrible, and the sheer weight that these...
This 1966 El Camino Promotional Video Is Crazed 60s Chevy Propaganda At Its Finest
There’s nothing like some wacky 1960s manufacturer propaganda to get our blood going on a Friday. In this video we see a big block 1966 El Camino compared to a 289 powered Ranchero, then...
2018 NHRA Auto Club World Finals Photos: Sportsman Action From Hardcore Thursday At Pomona
(Photos by Wes Allison) – It is the beginning of the end of the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season with the kick off of the 2018 NHRA Auto Club World finals at Auto Club Raceway in...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2019 Mustang GT Convertible Continues The 50+ Year Tradition of Fun
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Yawn you say, scroll on by. A drop top, automatic Mustang. Boring. While this adult version of the Mustang perhaps lacks the wanton fury of the 8,000 RPM GT350R, it...
COMP Performance Group Flexed Their Muscles At SEMA 2018 – Massive Array Of Products and Parts!
When it comes to the mightiest names in the high performance aftermarket, the COMP Performance Group is among the top. They have a collection of product lines that covers everything from blocks to...
SEMA 2018: Aeromotive Wins SEMA Manufacturer Of The Year Award
Longtime BangShift sponsor Aeromotive Fuel Systems won what can be argued is the most prestigious award that SEMA gives out, Manufacturer of the Year at the 2018 show. The company received this award...
This 1960 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon Is Probably The Nicest One In The World
There are certain cars that stand as reminders of just how bad ass Detroit was in the golden age of the car business. The 1960 Mercury Colony Park station wagon we found for sale on eBay is amazing....
American Powertrain Parting Shift: A Turbocharged 13B Rotary And A Sequential Trans Make This An 8-Second Street Car
There’s someone about old, vintage Japanese cars that we dig around here. The styling is reminiscent of American muscle cars, their power plants were mostly weaklings but sometimes cool, and...
2018 SEMA Photo Coverage: The Last Blast From The Camera Of Lohnes
(Photos by the author) – From rat rods to OEM offerings, the SEMA show really has everything you’d ever want to check out as a gearhead. For years it was just Ford up front, Chevy in the...
Watch Robert Hight’s Crazed Trip Into The Net At The 2017 NHRA World Finals
Robert Hight enters the 2018 NHRA World Finals as the second runner in the fuel funny car points chase. If you think that worries him one bit, you missed the memo on what he did in 2017. The murky...
This $1,000 Nissan Pulsar Seems Like A Barrel Of Fun In The Dirt – The Cure For The Quarter Million Deusey
Life is about balance and on a day when we showed you a $250,000 clone Deusenberg we felt that there needed to be an appropriately BangShift palate cleanse to follow it. This car stands as a perfect...
How Much Is Enough: This Duesenberg Clone Has An Asking Price Of $249,000 – Crazy or Not?
Clone cars are nothing new, there’s a booming market for them all over the place but some of them are certainly in a different league than others. That can be a good thing or a bad thing....
Seems Legit: Watch This Wheel Horse With a CBR 1000 Motor Run 12s At Santa Pod
Now THIS is awesome. A a proud former Wheel Horse owner, I can tell you that they are great little tractors that can do a myriad of jobs around the house but I can also tell you that a fast walk is...
McLeod Has New Products, Expanded Offerings For 2019 – Shifters, Flywheels, Clutches, and Automatic Kits!
It is always great to stop by and see the people at McLeod Performance Engineered Driveline Solutions, especially at SEMA because as time has shown, these guys and girls are always working on...