Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
2015 OPGI Classic Car Show: Our Photo Coverage Continues – Some Of The Best Looking Cars Detroit Ever Built
Our photo coverage of the 2015 OPGI Classic Car Show continues. OPGI is in a pretty interesting business. They are in the replacement parts side of the industry and they specialize in GM models that...
The Ripsaw EV-2 Is A Hot Rod Tank From Hell – Watch It Drift, Plow Through Trees, And Jump!
They guys from Howe and Howe Technologies up in Maine have outdone themselves again. The company is in the business if building specialty vehicles for use in all different arenas. They have built...
The Face Of Freight To Come? Freightliner’s Supertruck Is A 5 Year Project That Delivers 12-MPG
Improving the efficiency of over the road trucks has long been a pursuit of not just the truck makers themselves but also of the government, who have shoveled out grants and money for engineering...
Insane: Watch The ProCharged, Lingenfelter Powered AWD Hurst/Olds Destroy All Four Tires At ONCE!
We’re 100% sure you know this car and we’re 100% sure that if you don’t you think the guy has smoked the motor in it. We 100% sure that if you think that, your skull may explode...
Proof That New Englanders Are Lunatics: Watch This Ariel Atom Drag Race A Snowmobile On An Ice Runway In New Hampshire
So there are a few things here that you need to be made aware of. First, Ace Performance Systems is the New England region Ariel Atom dealer and they are located in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. They...
The Ugly American: This Hotchkis Built 1976 Dodge Dart Lite Was Completed To FIA Specs Because It Is Going To Need Them
The name Kevin Wesley is no stranger to BangShifters. Wesley is the guy who owns and drove the famed “Autocross Taxi” 1970 Plymouth Satellite. The car has transported hundreds of...
Got A RZR? RacePak Is Brining Cool New Stuff To Market Just For You!
There was literally no way to predict the explosive development of the side by side/UTV market when these things started popping up 15 years ago. Initially intended for work around the farm or on...
The Texas Mini Farm Truck Rules! Watch This LUV Run 9s, Throw The Bed Cap Lid Open, And Act Like Its Big Brother
Of all the cool rigs we saw in Charles Wickam’s coverage of the Houston Performance Trucks event at Royal Purple Raceway last week there was one that stuck out and you know the one we’re...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Last Week’s Mystery Block Identified
Nothing seems to escape the long arm of the BangShifter knowledge vault. Last week I posted a bunch of photos that I shot at Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts of an old block and...
Event Coverage: The 2015 OPGI Classic Car Show – A Dazzling Array Of Coolness In Seal Beach, California
Last weekend was a beautiful one in Southern California (who would have guessed!?) and that was a good thing because it was also the weekend of the annual OPGI Classic Car Show. The event is held...
The 2015 Houston Performance Trucks Shootout – Here’s Our Last Blast Of Action From The Race
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Well, we’re finally at the end of our run of great Wickam photos from the 2015 Houston Performance Trucks shootout at Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, Texas....
Here’s 15 Wild Wheels Up Launches From Memphis – Which One Is The Craziest?
The Outlaw Street Car Reunion that was recently held at Memphis International Raceway (formerly Memphis Motorsports Park) was widely covered for the three second radial action, some nasty wreckage,...
2015 Buffalo Motorama: Old Iron, Cool Iron, and Neat Stuff At The Big Show In Buffalo
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – We were not kidding when we joked that Mike Brooks literally lost the use of his shutter button finger after the adventure he had at the 2015 Buffalo Motorama. The...
