Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Craigslist Find: A 1940s Sears/Allstate One Wheel Trailer
When Chad sent this link to a CraigsList ad featuring a very old Sears/Allstate one-wheel trailer we were interested because we never knew the little guys existed before. Sold through Sears stores...
BangShift World Exclusive: Video of Captain Jack McClure Running his 200mph Rocket Go Kart!
We received this video from Captain Jack McClure last week and are finally getting it up for the world to see today. This is a special deal because to our knowledge, no one else has made any Captain...
Caption This Photo: Garage Fun!
There are photos that really sum up what gearhead fun is, and this is one of those photos. Horsing around in the shop with your buddies is one of truly good parts of being a BangShifter, especially...
TV Personality Dennis Gage Suffers House Fire
Television personality, and host Dennis Gage has suffered a horrible house fire that completely gutted his Indiana home. Gage’s family is all safe and sound, as is his collection of classic...
Event Coverage: The 2010 Goldenchild Nationals Snowmobile Ice Drag Race
We had no idea what to expect when we headed north with two of our photographer buddies to cover the 2010 Goldenchild Nationals, an eighth-mile snowmobile drag race held on a frozen lake in Vermont....
Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Snow Wheelin’ Fail
With snow-mageddon closing in on our eastern offices, I’ve decided to dredge up some snow filled blog items from the past on this Sunday (partially because there may be no power at eastern HQ...
Merry Christmas from BangShift.com
Chad and I, along with our families would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas. We hope that your day incorporates any of the elements that make this a great holiday. From the people,...
A Visit From St. Garlits
Back in 2005 I adapted the famous poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore into the drag race themed “A Visit From St. Garlits”. The adaptation was a pretty...
PodCast – Listen to BangShift’s Chad Reynolds on Hot Rod Magazine Radio Live
Chad recently appeared on Hot Rod Magazine Radio hosted by Dennis Pittsenbarger. He was on the show talking about all kinds of stuff from the NHRA Unleashed series to the goings on here at BangShift....
BangShift Christmas Poem: Santa Rolls in a Pro Street 1967 Camaro
(Editor’s note: BangShift member Hamar (real name Hal) sent us this poem as told us we could use it if we wanted to. We read it and thought it would be perfect for a Christmas eve blog item. We...
eBay Find: An Awesome Tracked Slow Plow We’re Not Getting for Christmas
With tonight being the “big night” with respect to visits from Santa Claus, we’re too late to edit our wish list. In the event we had another week or two, this kick ass little...
BangShift.com Approved Re-Run: Nitromethane on a Budget With a Carb and Stock Heads!
Chuck Noble is a name that we were familiar with long before we actually met the man. Chuck’s been around the drag racing scene in New England for a while and ran a totally bad ass, blown,...
Bitchin’ Historic Drag Video: Altered Wheelbase Mopars, Fuel Dragsters, Fuel Altereds, and a Tragic Fire
This is one of the coolest vintage drag racing videos we’ve dug up so far in our years of trolling YouTube. It features never before seen footage of some legendary altered wheelbase Mopar...
Crazy Wreckage Sequence Re-Run: A Dragster Pulls a Backflip
While our eyes were trained on the 52nd March Meet, the IHRA was holding their second event of the 2010 season down in Louisiana at State Capitol Raceway, March 5-7. One of the things that the IHRA...