Classic Footage Of “Diesel Louie” Kenworth Wheelstander At Work!
Oct 04, 2012Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic Footage Of “Diesel Louie” Kenworth Wheelstander At Work!
We love wheel standers. We love big rigs. Wheelstanding big rig? Don’t worry, we will have someone check on Lohnes to make sure he is alright. What you’re looking at is...
Barnstormin’: Drag Week Scrambled My Brain and Other Memories From A Great Week On The Road
Oct 03, 2012Brian Lohnes10
Oh what a difference eight years makes. Drag Week has certainly come a long way from the quaint little get together it was in 2005 when less than 40 cars pulled out of the now dead Kansas City...
CraigsList Find: A One of None 1988 Caprice Two Door Wagon! Optimistic Pricing Inside!
Oct 03, 2012Brian Lohnes6
BangShift reader Rich Hintze tipped us off to this custom built 1988 Caprice wagon for sale on CraigsList. The car is located in North Carolina and it seems as though it may stay there for a while...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Name The Application For This Mechanical Fuel Pump
Oct 03, 2012Brian Lohnes7
Yesterday, I had occasion to drop in on my pal Mike Casella who was hard at work in the machine shop at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. We’ve done some neat stuff with the...
Gallery: The 38th Annual Lyon Farm Car Show – Yorkville, Illinois
Oct 03, 2012Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Grippo was not the only guy pounding the pavement with his camera last weekend, Greg Rourke ventured out to the 38th annual Kendall County Historical Society Lyon Farm...
Gallery: More Great Photos From the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Total Coolness
Oct 03, 2012Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: More Great Photos From the Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Total Coolness
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – As we said yesterday, Grippo went whole hog at the 2012 Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival with his camera and this is the second of SIX galleries...
Video: The 2012 Engine Masters Challenge Is ON and Comp Cams Is There to Cover The Action! Learn the Ins and Outs Of The Competition Here!
Oct 02, 2012Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: The 2012 Engine Masters Challenge Is ON and Comp Cams Is There to Cover The Action! Learn the Ins and Outs Of The Competition Here!
Popular Hot Rodding’s Engine Masters Challenge has become the defacto yearly slugfest for professional and otherwise hardcore engine builders every year. This year the folks at Comp Cams TV are...
Video: Chasing The Dream: Dick Eytchison Does More With More… Doors That Is…
Oct 02, 2012Chad Reynolds1
We’ve been watching Dick Eytchison drive his super cool Crew Cab Chevelle for the last couple years, and if you pulled up next to this thing on Mulholland while driving something Italian,...
Video: Autocross Action From Indy – Watch The Jet Hot Chevy II Get Thrown Around
Oct 02, 2012Chad Reynolds1
Nobody on the planet sees more autocross action than we do, but we still love it. When we were at the Indy Goodguys show we thought the course was great, and even drove a rental car around it a few...
Gallery: The Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival – Gallery One
Oct 02, 2012Brian Lohnes6
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Joe Grippo attended the first ever Rodders Journal Vintage Speed and Custom Revival last weekend outside of Baltimore at the famed Pimlico Race Course. The...
Gallery: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, and Gassers From Goodguys Columbus
Oct 02, 2012Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, and Gassers From Goodguys Columbus
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – We’ve run a ton of Doug Garrison’s photos from the Goodguys Columbus show. If anything it highlights the total diversity of cars and trucks that show up...
Gallery: Classic Ford Hot Rods From Goodguys Columbus – Flatheads to Fat Fenders!
Oct 02, 2012Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: Classic Ford Hot Rods From Goodguys Columbus – Flatheads to Fat Fenders!
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Since we last left you with a gallery dominated by Tr-Five Chevrolets last week, it only makes sense that we fire a salvo back for the lovers of the blue oval. This...
Not Good: Massive Fire At Methanol and Race Fuel Company In Winnipeg, Canada – Firefighters Battling Blaze
Oct 02, 2012Brian LohnesComments Off on Not Good: Massive Fire At Methanol and Race Fuel Company In Winnipeg, Canada – Firefighters Battling Blaze
Canada’s fickle relationship with race fuel is getting more heated by the minute…literally. Speedway International, a supplier of racing gasoline and methanol to racers all across North...
Wreckage Video: Watch A 1930 Ford Drag Car Skid, Spin, and Flip at the 2012 Jalopy Showdown
Oct 02, 2012Brian Lohnes1
Pal o’ BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian was at Beaver Springs Dragway recently to shoot photos and video of the 2012 Jalopy Showdown nostalgia drags. Being her normal awesome self, she got lots of...












