Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Carnage Video: Watch the Rear Axle Get Ripped Clean Out of a Pulling Truck!
Carnage is something that happens with regularity in all motorsports. Truck and tractor pulling is no exception. With motors and drivetrain parts being worked to within an inch of their lives under...
Barnstormin’: The Problem with Town Forest Committees
I recently had occasion to attend a board of selectmen’s meeting at a local town hall. I was not a resident of the town I was in, but had to attend the meeting for a business matter. While...
Party-Time: The First Ever YellowBullet.com Nationals Will be Held at Cecil County on Labor Day Weekend
YellowBullet.com, the 900-pound gorilla of drag racing message boards, and pal of BangShift.com, has announced that it will be running a drag race on Labor Day Weekend at Maryland’s Cecil...
Neat Video: Buddies Horsing Around With Their Jag-Powered Slingshot, Dry Hops Included
This video struck us as very cool in a subtle way. It’s basically a few guys tuning on a vintage slingshot dragster powered by a DOHC Jag engine. The thing sounds cool as hell, and the fact...
Columnist Wonders Why Pony Cars Don’t Get Raced, Seems Unaware That They Do
Wall Street Journal columnist Ben Austen recently penned a column lamenting the fact that none of the Big Three’s pony cars get raced like they did in the old days. He has apparently missed the...
Cool Video: A Huge Custom Unimog Struts Its Stuff
Unimogs are bad ass 4x4s, and modified Unimogs are even better than that. This video shows a totally tricked out Unimog built by Couch Off Road Engineering for the firearms company Magpul Industries....
New Products: TCI Master Overhaul Kit for Ford 1980-1993 AOD Transmissions
More and more Ford guys are running the venerable AOD transmission behind their blue oval motors in high performance applications. The folks at TCI have introduced a neat master overhaul kit that...
eBay Find: A Wooden 1950’s Sports Car
We were stopped dead in our tracks when we laid eyes on their weirdly amazing car. It is a completely wooden sports car, powered by an odd-ball motorcycle engine, and sitting on a Citroen suspension...
Party at Big Daddy’s House and Everyone is Invited
We got wind of a cool car show coming up at the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida and figured we’d pass the word along to anyone that can attend. It’s free to check out...
Announcing The First Speed by Spectre 341 Challenge, a High Speed Hillclimb
We love the guys and girls at Spectre Performance. They’re proud sponsors of BangShift.com and more than that, they are as hard core as they come in the gearhead world. They ran 330 mph with a...
Hilarious Video: A Crazy, Dirt Track, Big Rig Race at the Webster County Fair
Talk about grassroots racing. Take an open area, throw some huge old equipment tires around the edges and center of said area, form an oval about a quarter mile in length, and allow people to race...
Crazy Video: A Turbocharged Camaro That Hates to Have the Front Tires on the Ground
This incredible video, showing Texan Kevin Cram in his twin turbo’d Camaro, beats all we’ve ever seen. Powered by a Proline Race Engines-built big block Chevy, and obviously dialed in by...
New Aluminum LS Race Block From RHS
Forgive us if there is drool on the screen. We’re slobbering over this new cast aluminum LS race block from RHS. It features all the stuff that you’d expect from a hard core cylinder case...