Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
BangShift Question of the Day: Land Speed Racing or the Drags?
Today the question centers around acceleration contests. Do you like yours in the long, drawn out format of land speed racing or the brutally short and violent format of drag racing? Having actively...
Horrific Wreck Video: Australia’s Debbie Reed Suffers a Massive Top End Crash
Debbie Reed is a name very familiar to Aussie drag racing fans, but maybe not so for North American straight line followers. She’s been in the sport for 30 years and is a successful Top Alcohol...
Awesome Craigslist Ad Find: A Hilariously Accurate Sales Pitch for a 1988 Yugo
You’ve got to respect anyone who is selling something that’s clearly crap, and is totally honest about it. The seller of a 1988 Yugo in Southern California should consider a career in...
Kablooey Photos: Hello Nitrous, Goodbye Wankel Rotary Engine
Our man on the San Antonio scene, Kevin Blalock is back with another cool photo sequence of stuff blowing up in spectacular fashion. Last time it was a third-gen Camaro, and this time it is a rotary...
Killer Gallery: Up Close and Personal with the Internet Famous 24V71 Detroit Diesel of Big Mike Harrah
Video of “Big” Mike Harrah’s 24V71 Detroit Diesel engine has been making the internet rounds for the last several months. The gargantuan engine is going to be stuffed into a...
Awesome Video: A Gathering of Vintage Dirt Track Iron Tearing up the Track
Much of America’s racing heritage was built on dirt tracks by men driving dangerous machines on small rings all over the country. There wasn’t a fairgrounds in America without a horse...
Racing Junk Find: A 1970 Chevelle SS Wagon We’re Selling a Kidney For
Old wagons are cool in all of their forms, but when said wagon had been warmed up with respect to performance, the cool meter gets pegged. Such is the case with this kick ass 1970 Chevelle wagon that...
Great Racing Video: AC/DC and the Drags Were Meant to go Together
In our minds, there’s no better musical sound track at the drag strip than AC/DC. That being said, there’s no better band to provide the soundtrack to a drag racing video than those...
Scamming Tow Truck Driver Gets 14 Years in Prison
Today’s proof that there is sometimes justice in the world comes from Santa Clara, California where a judge sentenced a scamming jerk of a tow truck driver to 14 years in prison after he...
NASCAR to Allow Drivers Championship Points in One Series Only
News has leaked out about a fairly substantial change in policy regarding NASCAR drivers’ ability to compete for multiple championsips in 2011. According to the information we have acquired,...
BangShift Project Spotlight: The 1957 Chevy One-Ton Gets a Bed and a Bitchin’ Vintage Slide-In Camper
BangShift member Squirrel has some awesome stuff. His blown 1955 Chevy is a personal favorite car of ours, but his recent project, a 1957 Chevy one-ton truck has really gotten our attention. Jim...
Lucas Oil Products Scores Naming Rights to Home of US Nationals
Lucas Oil Products, who by our estimation is the single most prolific sponsor of racing and motorsports events in the USA has acquired the naming rights to the facility formerly known as Indianapolis...
Question of the Day: Are Old War Planes BangShifty?
Obviously we’re an automotive website and there are no plans to chance that focus anytime soon.With that being said, the gearhead universe has all sorts of neat aspects to it that aren’t...
Caption this Photo: Digger on the Roof
We’ve seen Funny Cars on a pole before, but we have never seen a dragster parked on a roof. BangShift form moderator Daryl found this gem perched on the roof of a local convenience store....