Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s One Thing You’d Change About Your Car This Instant?
Today’s question is all about snap decision making. We want to know what one thing you’d change on your car this instant. No long protracted debate, no consideration for price,...
Criagslist Find: Bill “Maverick” Golden’s 1983 Dodge “Little Red Wagon” Pulling Truck — Yes, He Had A Pulling Truck!
While most hardcore gearheads know Bill Golden for his exploits in factory backed Mopar stockers and super stockers then ultimately as the longtime pilot of the famed “Little Red Wagon”...
Flaming Dyno Explosion Video: Big Revs and Bigger Wreckage
This is a good old fashioned dyno disaster. According to the poster of the video, the cause of the failure was a wrist pin that left it’s duty post at the worst time possible, during peak RPM...
Big Time Wreckage Video: A Crash Compilation From the 1920s to the 1950s
This video will have you cringing and wincing all the way through. It is an amazing collection of racing crashes from the earliest days of motorized competition through the 1950s. For many years,...
Awesome Video: Leeroy Yarbrough is Saved From Burning to Death at Daytona in 1964
Leeroy Yarbrough was one of NASCAR’s brightest stars in the latter 1960s. In 1969, the best year of his career he dominated the sport, winning seven races, among them the Daytona 500, Coke 600,...
eBay Find: A 2002 Oshkosh M1070 Tank Hauler That Swats Chad’s Motorhome With Its Detroit Diesel Pimp Hand – This Thing Hauls 70-tons
Ya know, Chad was pretty nice about my fixation with trucks, tractors, and other implements of slow plodding coolness, but that’s not normal. Nope, behind the scenes he angrily berates me and...
The Top 11 Greatest Racing Rivalries
Guys and girls who race cars tend to have mucho grande egos. It’s the nature of the business. Great racers never exist in a vacuum by themselves, so it’s inevitable that every great one...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most “American” Car Or Truck?
So we’re celebrating America’s birthday on this day, July 4th. It’s a joyous day with fireworks, friends, frosty beverages, burnouts, maybe some racing for those of you hardcore...
BangShift Approved Video: Six Minutes Of Tire Smoking Big Rig Gymkhana Action!
While Mike Ryan will always be #1 in our big rig loving hearts with his insano antics on Pikes Peak, his tire smoking road course runs, and the incredible amount of tires he destroys on the rear of...
More Craigslist Hilarity: An Ad For “Found” Mustang Doors That Isn’t Quite What It Seems
Lots of times, the best humor is the subtle stuff that requires a teeny bit of thought to really “get”. This Craigslist Ad from the Akron, Ohio area is proof of that. We were tipped off...
Awesome Video: Watch A Helicopter Pilot Expertly Maneuver His Craft To Pluck A Kid’s RC Plane Out Of A Tree Top!
We know that we’re a little late to the party on this video, which has over a million views on YouTube but we still had to share it because it rules all. Even our pal Keith Turk, an ace chopper...
Barnstormin’: It Ain’t The Size Of The Strip…
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been to two really fantastic drag races. We’re talking barn burning affairs that have had huge crowds, great racing, lots of satisfied customers, and...
eBay Find: A Weird 1965 Chevy Suburban With An Extra Axle And A Firebird Chassis? We’re Confused Too
So I recently ran an item featuring a weird 1978 Datsun truck that had three driven axles. The 6×6 Datsun captured the imagination of the BangShift readership and all of a sudden, we got run...
