The Parting Shift: In Cab Aerobics Shifting a Twin Stick Kenworth
Posted in MISC February 18, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Truck driving is a tough job. There’s the need to be safe to rack up hundreds of thousands, and even millions of accident free miles, the pressures of living on the road, and the ever inflating price of fuel. One of the things that has advanced nicely is the truck itself. Todays rigs have comfort [...]
UPDATED Video: NHRA Motorsports Museum Low Flyers Car Club Panel Discussion
Posted in HISTORIC February 18, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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We are proud to be partnering with the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum to bring you all the history of drag racing and hot rods you can handle in 2011, presented by The Auto Club of Southern California. The Auto Club of Southern California continues to provide incredible support for the museum, and our hobby [...]
Amazing Survival Video: Jay Upton Crashes a Top Fuel Bike at 193mph and Lives
Posted in CRASH & BURN February 18, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Jay Upton is a Top Fuel motorcycle rider down in Australia. He rides a wild 1500cc Honda machine that wears a totally streamlined body. It is one fearsome looking rig, especially when under power and shooting a jet of flame out of the up swept exhaust right behind his seat. This video shows he and [...]
Modern Nostalgia Video: The Night That Pro Stock Came Back to Life
Posted in RACING & ACTION February 17, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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The one thing missing from today’s booming world of nostalgia drag racing is a vintage Pro Stock class. You know what we’re talking about. Small blocks, real four speed transmissions, limited suspension technology, no tube chassis. Real cars with real drivers rowing gears. The ultimate tease happened last July at Thompson Dragway in Thompson, Ohio [...]
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Wreckage Video: A Fox Mustang Eats a Tree During an Autocross
Posted in CRASH & BURN February 15, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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We’ve been to and competed at more than a couple autocross events during our time as amateur stunt drivers. None of those events have presented a competitor with the option of smashing his car into a tree. This video will prove that some venues do offer that opportunity. This video shows a dude in a [...]
Killer Videos: How to Wrench on a 1929 Duesenberg Model J in Your Home Shop
Posted in OTHER TECH February 14, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Duesenbergs are very freaking rare, guys who wrench on their own Duesenbergs at home are even more so. Luckily, BangShifter “Hemi” Joel Nystrom is one of those dudes and he has the video proof to show it. Joel’s exploits have been documented on these electronic pages before from his building a Hemi-powered GTX to race in [...]
The Parting Shift: A Lap in Jim Halsey’s Nitrous Infected Pro Mod
Posted in RACING & ACTION February 11, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Jim Halsey owns and operates one of the quickest nitrous pro mods in the country, and the world. In this video we ride along with him as he hauls ass down the strip at Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, North Carolina. Jim’s grabbing Lenco shift rods like they are saving his life in this clip! The [...]
Smokey Yunick Video: How Ol’ Smoke Helped Develop the Corvette
Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 11, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Smokey Yunick is certainly a hall of fame BangShifter. He had his hands in innumerable projects over the years and developed everything from carbs to spark plugs. Yunick was also involved in the early years of the Corvette, when GM was looking to make the car a road racing contender. Known for this wit and [...]
Epic Save: How to Drive a Pro Mod on Two Wheels!
Posted in CRASH & BURN February 11, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Next weekend will be a busy one for Chad and I. He’ll be bringing you a live broadcast from the Pacific Street Car Association and Pro Stock Shootout from Las Vegas and I’ll be down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana plying the announcing trade for the IHRA at their Nitro Jam event. There will be a [...]
Video: A 1972 Buick GS Attacks the Autocross
Posted in RACING & ACTION February 10, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Autocrossing is one of the more powerful mechanical addictions that can spring up in the realm of gearheads. Attacking a tight course of cones with wild abandon is incredibly fun, and carving your time down around the course is as difficult as shaving hundredths off your elapsed time at the strip. The best part is [...]
Wreckage Video: How Drag Racing Your Truck Across a Meadow Can End Really Bad
Posted in CRASH & BURN February 8, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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High speed antics with friends are best left to the drag strip, especially the paved drag strip. This video shows why driving full tilt across a field in a drag race with your buddy ain’t the best thing, especially if you decide to monkey around when approaching terminal velocity. There are about two dozen things [...]
Bitchin’ Old Ad Video: The Wham-O Toys Bike Wheelie Bar Circa 1966
Posted in FUNNY STUFF February 2, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This is one of the great toy ads of all time. It features Dick Landy’s Dodge, The Little Red Wagon of Bill Golden, and a dozen or so kids doing tricks on old bikes that would have corporate lawyers in this day and age crapping their suits. It had to have been a riot to [...]
Photos and Video: The Insane Frozen Assets Twin Turbo Unlimited Ice Dragster
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 31, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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We got tipped off to photos and video of an unlimited twin turbo ice dragster by BangShifter and motorsports photographer Kelly Anderson. The machine is based on a Spitzer dragster chassis, has a two turbo Pro Line racing engine that’s hooked to two sets of spiked snow machine tracks, and is completely nuts. It is [...]
Chute Fail Video: Jeff Lutz Stops His 200mph Shoebox With No Parachutes
Posted in RACING & ACTION January 28, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Jeff Lutz’s 1957 Chevy is completely bad ass and gave ol’ Larry Larson a big run for his money during Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week last year. On one of Jeff’s best runs, a 7.11 second, 200mph blast, his parachutes failed to deploy. When that happened he did a masterful job of stopping his car [...]
Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip
Posted in CRASH & BURN January 27, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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This is a very violent wreck that illustrates some of the dangers that lurk at tracks which are not constructed to modern safety standards. When this pair of four second, eighth-mile door slammers careened down the strip, everything looked ok. The major trouble in this video starts when the cars enter the shut down area. [...]
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Great Historic Drag Video: Nitro Funnies, Pro Stockers, and Top Fuel from Rockingham, Circa 1975
Posted in HISTORIC January 25, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Drag racing was in a transitional period in the mid-1970s. Gone were the free spirit days of the 1960s and in were the gritty days of match racing for a living, and slowly transitioning to a more corporately driven sport. This footage from an IHRA event in 1975 shows some of that transition happening. While [...]
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