Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Site of the Week: The Greatest Collection of 4×4 Van Videos the World Has Ever Known
We were tipped off to this pretty cool site that has a collection of videos featuring four wheel drive vans from the mild, like stocker Quigley conversions all the way up to van monster trucks....
Mini-Bike Jump of Doom Video: Loose Pants and a Rough Landing
We once wrecked a BMX bike off a jump hard during our childhood. That pretty much cured us off the jumping bug. Obviously this dude didn’t shake the need to experience flight on a two wheeled...
Green Valley Raceway Footage! Vintage 8MM Video From One Of the Great Lost Drag Strips In The History Of The Sport
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF OUR CONTENT FROM TODAY Green Valley Raceway which was located in North Richland Hills, Texas had a great 20 year run as a road course and drag strip facility. Sanctioned...
The 2013 Fall Chattanooga Cruise-In: Hundreds of Bitchin’ Cars and Trucks Invade The City!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF OUR CONTENT FROM TODAY (Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Since it’s inception in 2011, the Chattanooga Cruise In (held at Coker Tire and Honest Charley...
Checked Out American Powertrain’s Site In A While? You Need To!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF OUR CONTENT FROM TODAY The men and women at American Powertrain have been working day and night on new swap kits, clutch components, and a half a million other things...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Worst Car You Have Ever Owned
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF OUR CONTENT FROM TODAY We’ve all had one. A shit box. A junker. A lemon. A car that you actually hated to even look at, let alone drive. Now is the time to spill...
NAPA Auto Parts Pulls Sponsorship From Michael Waltrip Racing As Fallout Continues For Richmond Incident
While we don’t follow a whole lot of NASCAR stuff here, the story of NAPA pulling the plug on a sponsor deal years early with Michael Waltrip Racing is certainly newsworthy in the land of...
This GE Turbine Powered RZR Side By Side UTV Is 100% BangShift Approved! – Video Of The Build And Under Power!
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF OUR CONTENT FROM TODAY I don’t have a lot of experience with so called “side by sides” or UTV vehicles that originally were built for guys to use on...
2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion – Our Final Gallery Of Bitchin’ Action Photos!
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – We’ve finally come to the end of our awesome photo coverage from the 2013 NHRA New England Hot Rod Reunion. Rich Pasley and Dave Nutting slayed the photo taking...
More Video Hilarity: Regular Car Reviews Answers All Of Your Questions About 1994 Lincoln Town Cars
Ok, the Regular Car Reviews YouTube channel has become an addiction. The other day we showed you the review of a mid-1990s Jeep Grand Cherokee and today we’re back in the middle 1990s but this...
The Fall Pigeon Forge Rod Run Photos! Thousands of Hot Rods Packed into a Tourist Town
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) -Earlier this year, Tommy Lee Byrd provided a gallery of photos from the Spring Pigeon Forge Rod Run (formerly known as the Grand Run). The awesome turnout of hot...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Best Thrash You’ve Ever Been Involved With?
With Drag Week having just finished up some competitors have awesome stories of thrashing up until they had a couple days left to get their cars assembled and on the road to Bowling Green for opening...
Lambrecht Collection Auction Online Bidding Has Begun, Some Prices Already Insane
Are we the only ones that didn’t know the auction for the Lambrecht Collection has effectively begun with online bidding? The bad news for us is that they aren’t accepting gum and pocket...
Barnstormin’: Cruise Ships, Drag Races, And A Speed Obsessed Summer…..A Rant
This weekend I’ll be in Tulsa, Oklahoma yelling into a microphone at a big diesel truck drag race. It’ll be the sixth strip I’ve visited since September first and the umpteenth I...