big red

Watch the Totally Bitchin’ Trailer to a Documentary About the Famous Big Red 1969 Camaro of RJ Gottlieb

Posted in HISTORIC May 7, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  9 comments

Big Red is one of if not the single greatest road legal 1969 Camaro in history. Built by Dan and RJ Gottlieb and used to compete in dozens of different events, the car can run 220mph flat out during the Silver State Classic, clip 215mph at the Texas Mile, and haul the mail up a mountain [...]

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Project Car: The Ridetech ’33 Ford Coupe…IT’S ALIVE. SEE VIDEO HERE…More to Come

Posted in FORD May 1, 2012  by  Chad Reynolds > >  1 comments

Ridetech’s ’33 Ford Coupe, which started life as a Factory Five kit, is almost ready for it’s debut and we’ve got video of it’s first sounds of life! You’ve been with us throughout the build which started with Ridetech asking you to design the paint scheme. Well, in typical Ridetech fashion, it’s going to look [...]

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brake test

Watch the Most Hellaciously Bad Ass Brake Test on Earth – Incredible Forces at Work

Posted in MISC April 10, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

We saw lots of hot brakes and clamping forces at work during the 2012 Run to the Shore, but even the big binders on the pro touring cars have nothing on the stoppers air liners use. Hauling all that weight down to a stop in the amount of time you have before running off the [...]

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maverick

Project Update Video: Jason Lewis’s Viper V10 Maverick Project Moves Closer to Completion

Posted in FORD April 6, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  5 comments

Jason Lewis is a crazy talented video guy and he’s also a hard core hot rodder. A while back, we showed you a unique and very cool project car he was building, which is an old Ford Maverick with a Viper V10 in the front of it. There has been tons of metal fabrication and [...]

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raunchero

Watch Freiburger and Finnegan’s Nomadic Ranchero Adventure Around the Western United States

Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 22, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  3 comments

Remember the one about the two guys who left for Alaska and ended up at the Grand Canyon by way of Utah and Colorado? Those two guys were David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine and that whole adventure was filmed for an episode of Roadkill, the web tv show that both guys headline. [...]

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log van

Wild Photos and Video: A Log Impales a Mini-Van – Driver Miraculously Survives

Posted in MISC March 9, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

Well this would certainly get your attention! A guy driving down the highway, minding his own business in Mississippi had the close call of a lifetime yesterday when a logging truck was involved in an accident and flipped over, sending the whole load flying through the air like a bunch of huge javelins. Once of [...]

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detroit runaway

Watch an Old Guy Shut Down a Runaway Diesel Engine While His Youthful Helpers Panic and Run for the Hills!

Posted in FUNNY STUFF March 7, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  12 comments

Ever see those t-shirts with the slogan, “Old guys rule” on them? We never really got that whole deal until we watched this video. You need to fast forward about two minutes in to see the true magic start. What you’ll see is three guys working to get an old 1950 GMC truck started. More [...]

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Video: Is This the Largest Group Burnout of All Time?

Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 27, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  1 comments

Australia’s Street Machine Summernats celebrated its 25th anniversary this year and they certainly did it in style. Rather than just fly some banners and sell some anniversary t-shirts, they did what wild Aussie’s do at car shows…a massive burnout. This wasn’t your typical blown street machine spinning Aussie burnout. Nope, this was a static job, [...]

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merlin rod

Watch a Merlin Tank Engine Powered Street Rod Tool Around!

Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 22, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

Since I am hung up on engines today, here’s a video highlighting a street rod project that is using a massive Merlin tank engine for power.The build, as you would expect, seems  to be totally one off and by the looks of it, the finished car is going to be bitchin’, and correctly proportioned to [...]

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nitro harley

BS Approved Video: Watch a Nitro Harley Get Built in a Home Shop

Posted in MISC February 20, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

Our pal Chuck Noble has been on the electronic pages of BangShift before. He’s the guy, we featured running a nitro motorcycle that had iron heads and carbs on it. Well, Chuck was using that bike as a trainer model to get himself familiar with both sitting atop a stupid fast two wheeled terror and [...]

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roadkill

Watch the First Episode of Roadkill – Freiburger and Finnegan’s New Show!

Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 17, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > >  8 comments

By now we’re sure you’ve heard that David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine are going to have a monthly web tv show called Roadkill. The first episode went live today and you can watch it below. We already took a sneak peek and found it to be pretty entertaining! Each month the [...]

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zamboni

Watch a Restored Version of the First Zamboni Ever Built Go Back to Work on the Ice!

Posted in HISTORIC February 15, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

If you are a gearhead that’s ever attended a hockey game, you’ve wanted to drive the Zamboni. The Zamboni is of course the machine that lumbers out onto the ice between periods and resurfaces the rink to give players and skaters a fresh sheet of glass-like ice to glide around on. Modern Zamboni machines are [...]

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detroit diesel

The Parting Shift: Ripping Twin Sticks With a Screaming 4-53T Detroit Diesel Up Front!

Posted in MISC February 3, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Detroit Diesel engines of the two stroke variety powered lots of stuff in North America for decades. From big trucks to industrial applications, the 53/71/92/149  series motors were beasts of burden that moved heavy loads, spun generators, grunted bulldozers along, and provided lots of umph for a nation on a building and expansion boom. We [...]

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scottsdale

This Goodguys Scottsdale Show Video is the Most Bitchin’ Thing You’ll See Today

Posted in MISC February 2, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We were tipped off to this artistic and frankly bitchin’ video of the 2011 Goodguys Scottsdale show. The video is set to some cool and non-intrusive music, has no voice over, and captures the essence and flavor of the show perfectly. To us, this is the type of video that tells the whole story with [...]

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Video: A MASSIVE RUSSIAN TRACTOR SAVES ITSELF FROM CERTAIN DEATH!

Posted in FUNNY STUFF January 12, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

My tractor dorkness is international, so when I ran across this video that shows a massive yellow tractor sticking half way out of a river like a sub breaching the surface, I knew right away that it was a mighty Russian Kirovec K-701 tractor. I also knew that unless the driver performed some sort of [...]

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mitch stott

WHERE ARE THEY NOW VIDEO: FORMER PRO MOD CHAMPION MITCH STOTT IS BUILDING RC PLANE LANDING GEAR?

Posted in FUNNY STUFF January 6, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

door slammer in the five second zone. He turned the trick back in 2003 at Darlington Dragway. He was a big force in the Pro Mod ranks through the 1990s and early into the 2000s. Then, like lots of guys, the sponsor money evaporated and he was without a ride. I got to know Mitch [...]

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