Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Aerospace Components Vacuum Pumps: A Look Inside And A Static
If there is one thing that Aerospace Components is best known for outside of their highly successful brakes, it is their equally as bad ass vacuum pumps. These can be found on engines ranging from...
Drag Action Coverage: PDRA North-South Shootout Photos From Maryland International Raceway
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – It was hot as blazes for days on end in Maryland last week but that did not stop the PDRA from cranking out another awesome event that was populated by some of the...
A BangShifter Done Good: One Of Our Contributors Has Gone Into The Classic Car Business – Check It Out!
Editor’s Note: It is always cool when a BangShift Alumnus goes on to do something neat with cars and such is the case with Kaleb Kelley. A former contributor to the site, he’s now in the...
Barnstormin’: Winners and Losers – The World Needs Both, Even If You Cannot Admit It
The most basic concept of a race is that someone wins the race and someone loses the race, right? That’s the whole freaking reason that any sort of event like racing, sports of all types, etc...
See The Historic And Restored Shelby Super Snake Fuel Dragster Roar To Life With Prudhomme At The Wheel! Burnout Too
There are restorations, there are recreations, and then there’s whatever this counts as because it is a restoration as performed by the guys who built the car in the first place. Seriously. Don...
This 1958 Anglia Is One Of The Most BangShift Approved Things We Have Seen In Some Time!
Little cars have been a staple in the world of hot rodding since the whole thing began. It was basic sense that had guys in the 1930s and 1940s repowering little cars with engines from larger...
Ride With Todd Paton As He Resets The Lancaster Dragway Speed Records In His Top Fueler
Todd Paton’s name is no stranger to the electronic pages of BangShift. We have seen Todd through his work at Racepak, through the piloting of funny cars, and most notably though the driving he...
Nitro Anglia: Watch The Lil’ Bit 1948 Anglia Throw Fire And Then Shimmy Like Crazy
When is a gasser not a gasser? That would be when it runs on nitromethane! Oklahoma’s Tod Barker has a 1948 Anglia that casual drag racing fans would look at and call a gasser. They...
Watch Tim Savell’s Horrifying No Prep Wreck From Kennedale, Texas – Amazingly He’s OK
Up until the other day, Tim Savell was having one hell of a year. His daughter had recently graduated from high school, he and the Bankston racing team are leading the NMCA pro mod points, and the...
Watch Jay Cox Suffer A Big Wreck At The PDRA North/South Shootout – He’s OK, Car Is Not
If you follow the world of door slammer drag racing you know that some of the most colorful personalities in the sport pilot those cars. Two of them are “Stevie Fast” Jackson and Jay Cox....
Video: Watch A Human Powered Helicopter Fly Beautifully And Crash Violently – Wild Stuff!
With headlines that love to talk about binge drinking, immoral activity, and other craziness at colleges and universities around the country, it can be easy to forget that there are lots of brilliant...
Drag Action Coverage: More Killer Stuff From Cars and Stars At Empire Dragway In Leicester, New York
(Photos by Jose Ferrer) – Yesterday we showed you some killer Mike Brooks photos from Empire Dragway and their Cars and Stars event. Well, we’re back with more ace lens work. This time...
Drag Action Photos: A Hot Night At Beaver Springs Dragway With Big Names and Cool Cars
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we showed you the first batch of photos from Joe Grippo’s camera featuring the action and the cars at Beaver Springs Dragway a weekend ago. It was an...
Momentous: Drag Racing’s First Live National Network TV Broadcast Was 61 Years Ago – The Loop Closes Next Weekend In Denver
(Thanks to Bret Kepner for the big time assist on this one) – November 13, 1955 was a very important day in the history of drag racing and there are very, very few people who remember why. On...