This 1969 Dodge D300 Open Road Camper Is So Cool We’re Nearly Speechless!
Jan 29, 2015Brian Lohnes3
I actually fear for what will happen to Chad when he sees this blog item. The guy is going to make some weird gasping noises, clutch his chest, maybe swallow his beard, and just go down like a ton of...
2015 Grand National Roadster Show Coverage: Hot Rods And Vintage Drag Race Iron You’ll Love
Jan 28, 2015Brian Lohnes1
It seems impossible but I’m starting to run out of photos to post from the 2015 Grand National Roadster Show. After the hundreds and hundreds I have posted this week, I am going to need to tag...
Drag Week Heroes And Exotics At The 2015 Pittsburgh World Of Wheels – Neat Stuff Abounds
Jan 28, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Drag Week Heroes And Exotics At The 2015 Pittsburgh World Of Wheels – Neat Stuff Abounds
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – As we continue to make our way through Mike Brooks’ awesome photos from the 2015 Pittsburgh World of Wheels we came upon an awesome chunk that are centered...
Ride Along In A Vintage 1963 Pontiac Stock Car At Hickory Speedway – Nostalgia Stock Car Racing Rules
Jan 28, 2015Brian Lohnes2
As much as we love our nostalgia drag racing around here, the expanding popularity of vintage stock car racing has us pretty excited. Guys are dragging out period correct cars and they are also...
Historic Race Cars And Hot Rods From The Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs
Jan 28, 2015Brian Lohnes3
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – An area was set aside at this event for survivor cars and cars with real history. This isn’t ‘nostalgia’. This is the real deal stuff. It’s...
Ebay Find: Anyone Want A Super-Huge Super Duty?
Jan 28, 2015Bryan McTaggart9
Say you have eight thousand dollars and a thing for huge trucks. What do you do? Sure, there’s tons of big pickup trucks on Craigslist, but that just isn’t big enough. Well, allow me to...
This Kelderman Built 2015 Ford F-350 King Ranch Tops The Charts In Size, Capability, And Comfort
Jan 28, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on This Kelderman Built 2015 Ford F-350 King Ranch Tops The Charts In Size, Capability, And Comfort
(Words by Kasey Sutherland – Photos by DWS Photography) – When you see a truck that catches your eye, sometimes you just have to have it. When Todd Peverill came across a Super Duty on...
Ebay Find: 1969 Jeep Gladiator, Powered By 500 Cubic Inches Of Cadillac Power
Jan 28, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
You have to love a Jeep truck. M-715, J-10, Gladiator…call it whatever you want, but the basic premise is there: it’s a bulletproof tank of a truck that’s dead simple to work on....
Watch In-Car Video of a Pinto Drag Car Pull a Vertical Wheelie and Taco the Front End
Jan 28, 2015Brian Lohnes2
Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park (formerly Norwalk Raceway Park) in Ohio is one of the fastest, nicest, and hardest hooking drag strips in the country. We’ve been there back when it was...
This 1950 Power Wagon Will Kill The Purists But It Is One Capable And Gnarly Off Road Machine
Jan 28, 2015Brian Lohnes10
This is one of those trucks that will have people cranked up pretty wildly in both directions. The purists will bemoan the chopping up and modifying of a sweet 1950 Dodge Power Wagon and the heathens...
Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Excuse You’ve Ever Heard Anyone Give For Not Liking A Car?
Jan 28, 2015Bryan McTaggart26
The video of the guy from Vehicle Virgins who listed why he disliked the 2005-era Ford GT drew some sharp fire. While I wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, the rest of you went straight...
Wild In Car Video Of What It Is Like To Make A Pass At The Merrill Ice Drags – Full Throttle On The Frozen Eighth Mile!
Jan 28, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Wild In Car Video Of What It Is Like To Make A Pass At The Merrill Ice Drags – Full Throttle On The Frozen Eighth Mile!
So just because the glaciers come in and swallow everything during the winters in Wisconsin doesn’t mean that hot rodding has to stop. Sure, if someone from California set foot on a frozen lake...
Strip Trip: A Peek Inside The Frozen Remains Of Pocono Drag Lodge – One Of The Best Known Lost Strips In The Country
Jan 27, 2015Brian Lohnes20
So I am finally getting to this series of drag strip visit stories from our family road trip in December. I am going to run them mostly in the order that we visited but I may mess with that a little...
The Edelbrock Dual-Quad Hemi Manifold Blows The Competition Away And Looks Awesome Doing It
Jan 27, 2015Brian Lohnes4
If we have a common failing here at BangShift it is the complete lack of hemi ownership in our past and present. That’s a sad deal that we need to get handled and we were reminded of our dearth...












