Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Cool Video: A Crown Vic With a 5-Speed and Open Pipes Gets Thrashed
This video is cool as hell and makes us smile in the face of the bad news regarding the fact that Crown Vic production is going to stop in about a year. The video shows a guy thrashing on his late...
Dumbass Alert: Florida Carjackers Steal Truck They Cannot Drive
School’s out so that means Florida carjacking season is on full tilt. We ran across a story from the Orlando Sentinel about two enterprising young thugs who set up a scheme to steal a vehicle,...
It Came From the Fab Shop: A Guided Tour of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
(By Loren Krussow) – The relentless and expensive pursuit of a slightly-lower ET or a few more miles-per-hour in our cars could seem ironic, given that for the price of a commercial airline...
Doing it Wrong Video: How Not to Winch a Stuck Land Rover Out of the Muck
If you’ve never experienced the fun of trying to extract a truck out of deep mud, consider yourself lucky. It’s fun to laugh about hours after the job is done, but it can be pure misery....
Elderly Ohio Man Busted Stealing Corvettes
This story had us shaking our heads. A 71-year old Ohio man was busted by the coppers and charged with aiding and abetting the operation of an automobile chop shop, and interstate transportation of...
Auto Trader Classics Find: An Insane 1967 Ford Bronco Rod
First generation Ford Broncos are neat trucks. We’ve seen them in all forms from sloggin’ mud boggers, to wheel-pulling drag cars. Hell, Doug Nash ran a flip-up Bronco-bodied funny car in...
Killer Roadside Find: A Vintage 1958 Chevy Super Stocker
Finding awesome junk on the side of the road is a true gearhead sport. BangShift.com forum member Andy (known as VT Junk on the board) is the Michael Jordan of the game and has amassed an amazing...
Odd Rods: Arizona Man Builds Running, Driving, Scale Models of Classic Cars
Ernie Adams is a big guy with a penchant for building small cars, and we mean really small cars. A heavy duty diesel mechanic by day and fabricator/builder by night, Adams has managed to build...
Cool Publicity Stunt Video: Prestone Melts a GM 3.6L V6!
Prestone took full advantage of the recent hot weather sweeping across the US by video taping a publicity stunt to “show” the importance of a fully functioning cooling system. They took a...
Great Read: The Story of The Thing, Drag Racing’s First Twin-Engine Bike
Drag racers have never really been slaves to convention. The reason for this stems back from the earliest days of the sport when there was no “right” way to do things. If you got to the...
eBay Find: A 10-Wheel Drive AM General M816 Military Wrecker
We’re not ashamed to admit that deep down, we’re 9-years old. That’s why we had to share this awesome 1970 AM General M816 5-Ton military spec wrecker we found on eBay. The seller...
Cruise Coverage: Kemah, Texas June 2010
Charles Wickam is at it again! He sent us 100 photos from the Kemah, texas, cruise night that he has been frequenting this year and once again we’re blown away. There’s a range of...
Historic Drag Video: Bitchin’ Vintage Footage of Fuel Altereds in Action, Including the Winged Express
Fuel Altereds rule, plain and simple. Not nearly enough wheelbase, chassis, or suspension, combined with way too much motor, gave fans a great show, drivers a lot of work, and chassis builders a lot...
AMC Collection Must be Sold off by July 30th, Buy Now!
If you happen to be itching for an AMC project vehicle or just want to own some Kenosha iron, get your bad self down to Fate, Texas, and try to scoop up one of the remaining pieces of the Ed Hooper...