Video: The LeTourneau Sno-Freighter Was A Monstrous, Lumbering Pack Mule Designed For The Harshest Places On Earth
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
RG LeTourneau is a BangShift hall of famer for sure. The guy was an engineering and design genius and he came up with some of the coolest and most effective equipment ever built during his life. No...
Video: Hit And Miss Engines At Work – These Old Mills Revolutionized Life As The World Knew It 100+ Years Ago
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – Hit and miss engines…no, I’m not referring to the engine I attempted to build for the slowest dragster in the Midwest. I’m referring to some of the earliest gasoline...
Video Bonanza: A Ton Of Great Television Ads for 1980s Gearhead Toys
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
As I speed toward my 35th birthday, I’ve been taking a little stock of my younger days. Growing up in the 1980s was a fun situation because there were so many awesome gearhead toys showing up...
In 1950s Germany They Towed Skiers Behind Porsches At 100mph For Fun (Video)
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
More than 60 years ago in Germany thrill seekers were hauling ass around road courses carved into snow with skiers hooked to the bumpers for bragging rights. We’re not talking about idling...
Wreckage Video: Ride Along In A Supermodified As It Touches Tires With Another Car And Eats The Wall Hard
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
If you have never treated yourself to the sound, speed, and fury of Supermodified racing on a circle track, you’re doing it wrong. These are the most beastly short track race cars in the world...
The Top 11 Worst Ever Special-Edition Vehicles
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News
Oh the dreaded “special edition” car. In many ways it represents the worst part of the car-making business. These are packages born completely from the heads of people who count beans, sell ads,...
This Video Featuring A 1970s Chevy C10 From Brazil Proves How Universal Hot Rodding Is
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
While McTaggart has a fascination with the cool cars that Australians have gotten over the years I have gotten really interested in the iron of South America, specifically Brazil. Why? The stuff is...
A Look Back On The History Of The Audi Quattro Program – See How The Rally Monster Came To Be!
Oct 08, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Quattro. The name that thoroughly disrupted rally racing in the early 1980s. Prior to the appearance of Quattro, the rally formula had become set in stone by Lancia: Lightweight, punchy mid-engine,...
Rough Start: Mellow Out With A 1977 Ford Thunderbird
Oct 08, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, FORD
Meet the most successful form of the Ford Thunderbird line. Not the two-seaters that we dig. Not the radical “Bullet Birds”, or the NASCAR racers of the 1980s and 1990s. And certainly not...
Ride Around In A Real, Restored 1966 GT40 As It Rips Around LeMans Just Like The Glory Days
Oct 08, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
2016 was the year of the Ford GT and the Ford GT40 as the company and the motorsports world remembered and celebrated one of the great racing feats of all time in Ford’s conquering of Ferrari...
Exit Stage Left: Chris Pearce’s Wall-Jumping Pinto Wheelstander At Byron
Oct 08, 2020Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Until Kevin McMullin’s wall-riding Mustang crash at Ford Fest 2020, I could not tell you the last time I saw a car rail-slide the concrete crash barrier better than a skateboarder. Lohnes might...
Three Minutes of Drag Heaven: An Afternoon At Lions Drag Strip Circa 1971 – Awesome Video
Oct 08, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
There is likely no more romanticized closed drag strip than the famed Lions Drag Strip that operated for more than a decade in the Long Beach, California area. Operated by guys like Mickey Thompson,...
In Memoriam: Eddie Van Halen
Oct 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, BS Daily Tune Up
This one stings. It’s not that one of the top-tier masters of not only the guitar but just about every single solid instrument he ever touched has finally left this earth after years of dealing...
Someone’s Fired Video: Watch This Rally Car Plummet From A Cradle As It Is Being Lifted By A Crane
Oct 07, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Right now, somewhere across the globe, stuff is being loaded into a building. That stuff may be pushed in, driven in, or even craned in. We’re guessing it is if it is being craned in, the guys...
