Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
This 1962 Studebaker Gran Turismo Hawk Is An Amazing Study In Cash Strapped Car Design
In 1962 things were not good for Studebaker. They had teamed up with Packard by that time and the two companies were limping towards their eventual grave together. That being said, in ’62 they...
The New Mark Williams Enterprises Catalog Is Out! Download A Free One Or Order A Printed One Here!
Catalogs are the life blood of the high performance aftermarket and racing parts world. Whether we’re talking the modern electronic versions or the tried and true paper variety, these things...
Awesome Nostalgia Video: Watch The Fuel Burning Olds Powered Little Honker Rip Down The Strip At Beaver Springs
When you put a blower on top of a classic Olds engine and then feed fuel through its veins you are living right and that’s what we can say about the Little Honker, the car featured in this...
The DeMarco Radial vs The World Buick Is For Sale – Want A Proved 3.80s Commodity?
If you love G-bodies and you love Radial vs The World or other forms of small tire racing, the literal car of your dreams is for sale. David DeMarco has decided to sell the Buick Grand National that...
Project Weapon X Update: Some Unexpected and Unwanted Curveballs Strike The Build
(By Robert Williams) – 6 weeks into the Weapon X build and here’s where it stands… After writing and sending Part 1, I lost my work assistant Craig, due to a serious injury to one...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst American Car Of The Last 50 Years?
So this one should bring the carving knives out. I was in a conversation with a guy the other day and this question kind of came up. There are a million ways to approach it because there have been...
Amazing Historic Videos: Turbonique Company Promotional Films
The internet is good for a few things. One of them is causing familiar topics to bubble up time and again in different places. One of the common topics of discussion that always rears its head when...
This 1994 Twin Turbo Supra Is As Unicorn As It Gets – 100% Factory Stock and Less Than 30,000 Miles?!
So this is something else. For your youngins out there, in the mid to late 1990s Toyota sold a legitimate muscle car that was rear wheel drive, had a stick, and could really wallop guys in Mustangs...
This 1974 Video Called Patrol Vehicle Operation: Emergency Driving Is Great – Recognize The Location?
We love these old cop car driving videos. Not because they provide some incredible level of entertainment through the narration but because videos like this one called Patrol Vehicle Operation:...
Holley LSFest West 2017 – Here’s Our Last Look Back At The First One Ever!
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) – The best thing about a multi-faceted event like Holley LSFest West 2017 is the fact that you can show up with a car you have done one automotive activity in a bunch...
Thinking About EFI? Now’s The Time To Consider EZ-EFI For Your Project
FAST EZ-EFI has been a stalwart name in the world of aftermarket EFI for more than half a decade and if you are in the market to make the switch, now’s the time. Thousands of hot rodders around...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: SS396 — Paul Revere and The Raiders (1965)
Paul Revere and the Raiders were one of the great bands of the 1960s whose style morphed and changed throughout the decade. This song, an ode that was bought and paid for by Chevy as a promotional...
This 1968 Coronet Has A 650hp Hemi, A Great Father And Son Story, And 10-Second Time Slips
I always think of myself as kind of a “non-denominational” car guy. I like lots of different things including but not limited to muscle cars of all different makes, trucks of the slow...
Is This 1965 Plymouth Belvedere The Perfect Non-Numbers Matching Mopar For Beating On?
While we have always preached bout there being no sacred automotive cows around here, but let’s be honest. Some stuff is easier to justify beating on than others and this 1965 Plymouth...