Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
This 1958 Buick Caballero Century Estate Wagon Is Complete And Ready To Lead A Second Life – Amazing Car
Of all the awesome, bold, and completely over the top styling work that Detroit cranked out though the 1950s one of the most beautiful and short-lived among them was the hardtop station wagon. Lots...
ECTA Ohio Mile Coverage: So Many Combos and So Many Ways To Go Fast! Here Are Some Great Ones
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Remember this – land speed racing is still one of the most pure forms of motorsport because there is no money in it. There is no check at the end of...
Watch DeWayne Mills Incredible NMRA/NMCA Superbowl Clinching Win! NMCA Finally Wins One!
It took a couple of years but the NMCA finally scored a dramatic team victory over the NMRA at the 2016 Nitto NMRA/NMCA super bowl of street legal drag racing and the winning run is featured in the...
Watch What Has To Be The Closest Grudge Race of 2016 – Apocalypse VS Fade2Black For HUGE Money
This video is cool on a couple of levels. For starters we have a legit big money grudge race happening right in front of us. There’s the Mustang known as Apocalypse and the Regal known as...
This Hupmobile Hot Rod Has Hemi Power, A Four Speed, And A Huffer – A Cool Oddball
This round ball of orange caught our eye the other day when trolling eBay because it is an interesting shape and because it it has a blown baby hemi in it…and a four speed…and a Dana 60....
Racepak “We Are You”: Meet Todd Paton – BangShifter, Top Fuel Driver, Racepak’s Operations Manager
We are really digging the Racepak “We Are You” campaign because it is giving people glimpse into the company in a very personal way. Often it is tough to relate to people you are dealing...
Nostalgia Dragsters, Straight Axle Gassers, And Killer Old School Drag Cars At Shakespeare County Raceway In England!
(Words and photos by Dennis Vos) – On the same weekend as the Main Event was held, I received a warm welcome while attending the Shakespeare County Raceway during their Public Track Weekend...
Monster Mopar Coverage: Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park Was Filled With Chrysler Power!
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Frequent Bangshifters will know that while I embrace any hunk of metal that burns gas and spins tires, my heart truly lies with Mopars. As a result, this...
BangShift Approved! Watch This Stick Shift, Vortech Blown, Coyote Powered Mercury Capri Mangle All Comers!
Our pal John Puckett is a drag racing fool. We mean that in the best of ways of course but we see him at Drag Week and we love catching videos of his car because it is a stout piece that has the...
Oh Man, The Van! We Found An Awesome And Semi-Mashed Custom Van For Sale On A Salvage Site
Well this is rough! I was poking around looking for something interesting to see on the International Auto Auctions website and saw the typical stuff. Mashed up pony cars, rotted cruisers, Corvettes...
FIA Drag Racing Coverage: Action Photos And Pit Shots From The Main Event At Santa Pod!
(Words and photos by Dennis Vos) – The official start of the 2016 FIA Drag race championship happened during the last weekend of May and was for one time not plagued with the typical...
Video: Alexis DeJoria Suffers Fractured Pelvis In Sonoma Wall Banger Crash – 2016 Return Questionable
Last weekend at the NHRA Mello Yello series national event in Sonoma, California, Alexis DeJoria who drives the Tequila Patron nitro funny car suffered a pretty nasty wall banging wreck which...
Ohio Mile Coverage: From 150mph Station Wagons To 120mph Crosleys We Caught It all
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The white, Canadian Pontiac Strato Chief wagon ran itself right past the 150 mark to a 151.4mph best. We dig the classics and Steve Robey’s ’55 is...
