Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Book Review: Merchants of Speed by Paul D. Smith
When we open the BangShift.com Gearhead University, this book, Merchants of Speed by Paul D. Smith, will be first semester required reading. It is an awesome look back at the anchor companies of the...
Breaking News: Tasca’s Cobra Jet Mustang in the 9.40s
We’ve received word that Tasca Ford’s 2009 Mustang Cobra Jet has run into the 9.40s in recent testing. If this is accurate (and we have little to no reason to suspect otherwise) than it...
BangShift.com Day of Destruction: It’s a Wrap
October 5, 2009, marked the first ever BangShift.com Day of Destruction, where we brought you action videos every hour on the hour all day long, with every video loaded with crushing, exploding,...
Destruction Video: Vintage Crash Tests
As our last item on the BangShift.com Day of Destruction, we bring you back to the old school with a crash test video from the 1960s, one that is probably from the 1940s with a ’30s car, and a...
Destruction Videos: Mopars Getting Mangled
Anyone who watched enough Dukes of Hazzard as a kid got filled with enough Dodges and Plymouth destruction to last a life time. Consider this a little dessert. If you only have the stomach for one...
Destruction Video: Amazing Industrial Accidents
So far today, the BangShift Day of Destruction has been all about the wrecking of motor vehicles. But a lot of car guys like anything with an engine and power, and the ability to wreck things, and...
Destruction Video: Road Rage Gone Wrong
Not that we endorse road rage or acts of violence against the Man, but every once in a while some chucklehead combines the two with results that backfire right in his face. Like the gentleman in the...
Destruction Video: When Animals Attack Cars
Here’s something you probably didn’t worry about on your drive to work this morning, but there was a chance that your car could have been attacked by a pack of wild baboons, or maybe a...
Destruction Video: Worst Drag Car Fire Ever?
This is a nasty, nasty bit of video of a car that burst into a raging fireball in a matter of 1 second at one of the Big Dog races at Piedmont Dragway a few years back. We happen to know that the guy...
It Came from the Forums: Squishing Stuff in a Massive Press
Loren Krussow is a name familiar with regular BangShift.com readers. He writes a column around here called, “It Came From the Fab Shop.” Loren’s business is building stuff from...
Destruction Video: Stupid Burnouts Followed by Stupid Roll Overs
Burnouts are fun until someone gets hurt. Then they’re hilarious. Actually, we don’t think anyone really got hurt in any of the videos below, but it’s amazing how a little tire...
Destruction News Update: The Rest of the Story
A short while ago we told you about a wild Associated Press story out of Southern California that had a car flying off a highway and into a house. On the way into the house the car broke a gas main,...
Destruction News Break: Shortest and Most Interesting AP Story Ever
We used a shot of the General Lee as the lead photo for this blog item, because it’s about a little five-line Associated Press story that sounds like something straight out of a Dukes of...
Monday Time Killer: Funny Site Loaded With Mayhem and Violations
We have not had a Monday Time Killer installment in a while, but this one is very worthy. It’s ThatWillBuffOut.com, which is both a great name and a great site. It’s a blog with a never...