Belt Driven Big Rig For Sale at Hemmings
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Belt Driven Big Rig For Sale at Hemmings
Dan Strohl over at Hemmings has ROSS (Rusty Old Stuff Syndrome) just as bad as we do. Being that he works for Hemmings, Dan digs awesome stuff up that’s for sale all the time. This instance...
Craigslist Pick of the Week: Super Cool Barn Find Chevelle
Nov 13, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Craigslist Pick of the Week: Super Cool Barn Find Chevelle
This week’s CraigsList find comes from the lovely burg of Quincy, Illinois. Long story short, it’s a great 1965 Chevelle that spent a couple of decades snoozing in the back of a barn. The...
Columnist to NASCAR Fans: Stop Complaining
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Columnist to NASCAR Fans: Stop Complaining
We’ve talked about columnists and writers who were in the tank for NASCAR in the past, but we’ve reached a new level on that front with a recent column that appeared on Bleacherreport.com...
A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted: $950,000 for Concept Road Runner
Imagine if you will a world where people have massive amounts of expendable income. In this world the money flows like wine, cars sell for mind numbing prices, and virtually any and all insane...
Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Vindication! Porsche Built Tractors
My brother in this BangShift madness Chad really likes to break my chops about the unapologetic love I have for tractors. Well here’s mud in your eye pal! The Vancouver Sun recently ran an...
Speedzzter Says: BangShifting International Style is Fun
Nov 12, 2009Brian Lohnes1
“You’ve got to have a foreign taste, just to keep balance . . .”– G.T.O. , “Two-Lane Blacktop” (1971). I stood at the newsstand wondering “What in the world...
LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on LA Times Reports on Ashley Force Hood’s iPod; Weird List of Songs Ensues
Ashley Force-Hood, the NHRA nitro Funny Car pilot (and supreme hottie) who has a shot at the 2009 NHRA Championship was the subject of a recent LA Times.com story that profiled her five most favorite...
Video of the Week: Wayne Sheeley’s Bad Ass FC-170 Jeep in Action
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video of the Week: Wayne Sheeley’s Bad Ass FC-170 Jeep in Action
A while back we featured Wayne Sheeley’s crazy nuts Jeep FC-170 truck. It has been highly modified for off road action and was voted in by readers as a competitor at the wild Four Wheeler...
Muscle Car Sales Boom Against All Odds
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Muscle Car Sales Boom Against All Odds
Everyone, it seems, even the auto company executives themselves, is perplexed as to why sales of cars like the Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger continue to troop onward and upward when the rest of new...
National Dragster: How Vintage Drag Photos Circle the Web
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on National Dragster: How Vintage Drag Photos Circle the Web
Today’s online column from National Dragster editor Phil Burgess is pretty interesting. He describes how, last year, he re-posted a bunch of vintage drag racing photos that he found on the HAMB...
Incredible Barn-Load of Mopars: Daytonas, Chargers, Darts, More
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Incredible Barn-Load of Mopars: Daytonas, Chargers, Darts, More
Over at Moparts.com, a user called Devil has posted photos of his trip to Bloomington, Illinois, where some friends introduced him to a mystery man with a heart-stopping collection of rare Chryslers....
Car-Crash Fatalities are Down. Auto-Pilot Cars May Solve That.
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Car-Crash Fatalities are Down. Auto-Pilot Cars May Solve That.
According to a story on MSNBC.com, the NHTSA’s reported 37,261 auto-related deaths last year were the lowest since 1961. Considering how many more cars are on the road now compared to 1961,...
A Closer Look at Goliath: Bangshift.com’s New Project 1965 C50 Truck
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on A Closer Look at Goliath: Bangshift.com’s New Project 1965 C50 Truck
By now you have probably seen the photos of us dragging our handsome brute of a truck home from the woods of Maine. We’ve named the truck Goliath for obvious reasons. The thing is massive....
Roadside Find: 1931 Ford Model A Sedan Survivor
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Roadside Find: 1931 Ford Model A Sedan Survivor
On a summer day trip to Maine with the kids, we were minding our business, walking down the sidewalk when the wonderful sound of a low compression flattie four filled our ears. We wheeled around...












