Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Ride With Paul Dallenbach As He Roars Up Pikes Peak In A Nutso Open Wheel, V8 Powered Unlimited Entry
Many people know the name Wally Dallenbach from his years as a successful professional racing driver in a couple of disciplines. While his brother Paul may not be quite as familiar a name, he should...
The Bang Shift Daily Tune Up: Vehicle – The Ides Of March (1970)
As a kid, I played the trombone and without bragging, I was a pretty decent player. I gave up the horn after I got the college and discovered that beer and working on cars with my pals (often while...
This 1977 Dodge Aspen vs Chevy Nova Promotional Film Is A Sad Window Into Cars Of That Era
As much as we joke and shake our heads at the cars of the late 1970s, there’s still some real entertainment value in watching videos like this which manufacturers made to showcase their cars...
Watch An Idiot Truck Driver Destroy A New Holland Tractor And Nearly Kill The Farmer Inside
Anyone who has ever lived or driven through a rural area dominated by farms has no doubt had to pass a farm tractor at some point in their travels. Yes, tractors are large and lumbering machines that...
Pomona Swap Meet Photo Bonanza: Awesome Stuff For Sale and To See At The Massive ‘Meet
(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – While Chad live streams the best bracket racing west of the Mississippi this weekend, he still has fond memories of recently cruising the aisles and acreage of the...
Weird Science: Watch This Guy Fire Up A Small Engine Topped With A Wooden Cylinder Head!
Sometimes curiosity gets the best of people and drives them to do stuff that may not exactly advance the collective knowledge of humanity but it does make for interesting stuff. Case in point is the...
Time Travel Video: Enjoy This Fantastic Look At 1980s Monster Truck Action
If you were a kid in the 1980s and you are now a regular reader of BangShift.com, chances are you were into monster trucks. Those trucks were nothing like the race machines of today, nope, they were...
Video: Watch This Ancient Holt Crawler Tractor Plow A Field – The Real Story Is How A Guy Hand Built The Thing From Scratch In His Shop!
There are projects and builds that we have seem and had our breath taken away by but when you think about Don Hunter’s incredible construction of a turn of the century Holt crawler tractor from...
Awesome Video: This Big Wreck At The 1984 Talladega IROC Race Had Derek Bell Fuming!
Old school IROC racing was awesome. Sure, by the time the thing had petered out the series was a shell of its former self, but if you want to argue with the 1984 Talladega IROC race field you have...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Brand New Cadillac – The Milkshakes (1984)
At the behest of at least five, count ’em five BS readers who have suggested this tune over the last couple weeks, I’m featuring the song “Brand New Cadillac” today. I chose...
Watching A Locomotive Pull A Stuck Excavator Out Of The Muck Is Strangely Awesome
Sometimes the place you are working makes for strange bedfellows. In this case we see a railroad crew trying to free a decent sized excavator that is hopelessly buried in the mud beside a track....
Epic Historical Drag Gallery: 1970s AHRA Action – Muldowney, Ivo, Grumpy, Jungle Jim, More!
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – Lots of people like to complain and gripe about Facebook and social media, but I’m not one of those guys because though those channels comes stuff like this...
Watch This John Deere Pro Stock Pulling Tractor Make A Pull On A Hub Dyno
Hub dynamometers are awesome machines that have gained lots of traction (no pun intended) in the USA recently. They have been seemingly more popular in other parts of the world but we know of at...
