Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Limo Demo Derby Action Video! Watch Every Chauffeur’s Dream Played Out In Real Life!
(By Greg Rourke) – We’ve featured a Trans Am stretch limo and a Corvette stretch limo recently, and managed to piss off about 75% of BANGshift readers. Now you can wash your eyes out...
Stevie Fast Talks NHRA Pro Mod, 2017, and How He Plans To Attack The NHRA’s Toughest Class
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple of months you well know that this weekend at the 2017 NHRA Gatornationals, “Stevie Fast” Jackson will be making his...
This Commercial Featuring Legendary Driver Sir Jackie Stewart Cements His Place As One Of The Coolest Guys Ever
Sir Jackie Stewart was one of the best race drivers of his era, he was a tireless advocate for improvements in safety for racers, fans, and tracks, he’s a freaking knight, and he was also a...
Watch The Finals From The Wild And Wet 1977 NHRA Gatornationals
Thursday I make a break for Gainesville, Florida to be part of the announcing staff at the 2017 NHRA Gatornationals. The weather is looking iffy which stinks but it certainly isn’t the first...
Awesome Video: Watch A Rarely Seen McLaren M6GT Roar Around The Mt. Tremblant Course In Canada Circa 1970
The McLaren M6GT is an interesting study in how racing can be a fickle mistress to creative people like Bruce McLaren. The basic premise behind the M6GT was to build a run of 50 road going versions...
Suspension Install: This 1971 Chevy C10 Gets A Stance, Handling And Fun Upgrade With RideTech StreetGrip!
We’ve been working hard on our Win A Classic Sweepstakes C10 these last couple weeks, so we thought we’d bring you an update on the build’s progress. To start off, we did a breakdown of our...
One More Blast: Fresh 2017 Good Vibrations March Meet Action Photos
(Photos by Wes Allison) – As I am typing this a blizzard is roaring toward New England and that means it’ll be time to bust out the snow shovels and battle the snow for the next day or...
Speedy’s Newport Drag Strip No-Prep Highlight Video – Lots of Crazy Fun Here
With no guard walls, no frills, and the surface literally being part of an old air base runway or taxiway, Speedy’s Newport Drag Strip in Newport, Arkansas seems to be about the perfect place...
Pro Mod Video: A Look At The Upcoming 2017 J&A Service Company NHRA Pro Mod Class With Lewis and Brian
The J&A Service NHRA Pro Mod Series is back and better than ever for 2017. With an expanded race schedule bringing the number of races to 12, revised rules that allow the nitrous cars to weigh a...
This 1967 Mustang Is A Legit Shelby Built, Trans-Am Raced Hunk Of Rolling Ford History
Shelby was a fan of Trans-Am, Ford were fane of Trans-Am and because of this, they both got along great. Shelby was building cars for Trans-Am classes in 1966 and he continued for more than a couple...
The Curious Case Of The Crumpled Star Chief – Check Out This Oddly Damaged Old Pontiac
(By Greg Rourke) – Why do I like living in northern Illinois? I have no answer for that. Snow, cold, road salt, prisons full of our former governors, rusty cars, tornadoes, hot humid summers,...
Rig Rod Feature: This Detroit Diesel Powered Rod Started Life As A Fire Truck!
(Words and photos by Mike Bradford) – Jay Ouellette is the owner of Bumper to Bumper Auto Repair in Twin Mountain NH and like many of us grew up reading Hot Rod and other similar magazines...
Watch These Miners Put A Massive Dump Truck Back On Its Wheels In Amazingly Gentle Fashion – 100% BS Approved!
It is funny how different occupations and jobs force human beings to be good at stuff many people outside of that particular industry have no idea about. We’re not miners. We know that is...
Remember When Jay Leno Drove A Pro Stock Car In The 1990s? (And Blew The Clutch Out Of It?)
Recently there was a big deal made about Jay Leno’s first episode of the CNBC version of “Jay Leno’s Garage”. In one part of the show he went to the Frank Hawley Drag Racing...