Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Best of 2018: Watch The Six Quickest Radial Tire Cars on Planet Earth Make Their Historic Rips
There’s nothing like being at a drag strip when all of the elements of potential performance come together. When the cars are tuned up, when mother nature provides the perfect air and...
Best of 2018: This Compilation Of Spectator Drags Wrecks From Beech Ridge Speedway In Maine Is Great
It has been a while since we have peeked in on the Carbon Video YouTube channel and we’re glad that we did. He published a compilation video featuring 10-minutes of spectator drags crashes at...
Best of 2018: This Twin-Engine, 200,000lb Coal Dozer Is A Monster Machine We Never Knew About!
(By Greg Rourke) – What has 8 wheels, two big ass Cummins diesels, and weighs 200,000 pounds? This thing, the Melroe M-870 wheel dozer. Unless this is your first visit to these hallowed pages,...
Moroso Tech Video: Here’s The Theory And Practice Of Oil Pan Trap Door Baffling
It’s Wednesday so we figure that the collective brain of BangShift nation is firing on all cylinders today and is ready to learn. We came across this killer video from Moroso that explains the...
This 216ci Pontiac SD4 Racing Engine Makes More Than 500hp Naturally Aspirated!
Yesterday it was an 800hp, 301ci, naturally aspirated V8 engine and today it is a 500hp, 216ci naturally aspirated four banger. I guess I am on an NA kick these days or like every day I am on an...
Listen To These Old Diamond P Sports Music Beds And Smile Like Us!
So about a week ago I wandered into a YouTube channel that had virtually every awesome music bed from the old American Sports Cavalcade and Diamond P Sports days of television greatness in it....
Best of 2018: Watch This Steam Tractor Pull A Lowboy Trailer With A Crawler Tractor On It Through An Intersection!
We have all been at a traffic light when a big rig comes around the corner with a lowboy style trailer hooked onto the fifth wheel and some sort of dreadfully heavy piece of equipment on its back....
Best of 2018: The Lights Out 9 Crash The Whole World Has Been Talking About
DJ McCain and Jeffrey Schlein had one of the most memorable runs at Light Out 9. Unfortunately those memories were caused by some crazy carnage. McCain in a Datsun known as Bowser went into an insane...
Best of 2018: Watch Mark Woorduff Make A 4,300hp Hub Dyno Pull At Hyperaktive Performance Solutions
Now THIS Is a dyno video. You are about to see Mark Woodruff make a 4,300hp hub dyno pull at Joe Oplawski’s Hyperaktive Performance Solutions shop in Illinois. These guys put a big Manline hub...
Best of 2018: This 1960 Video Shows The Army Testing Rolling Fluid Transporters – Brilliant But Unsuccessful
Ideas, we all have them. Some are fantastic and go on to change the world, Spam as an example. Some are awesome on paper but in the end do not succeed in the real world and those typically out number...
Best of 2018: This Fantastic Tribute To Dan Gurney Tells His Story With Amazing Footage And The Man’s Own Words
The outpouring of emotion, admiration, and love towards Dan Gurney after his recent passing certainly proved just how big a deal this man was. From his driving talent to his engineering ability to...
Save Christmas And Buy The Van! This 1974 Chevy Short Wheelbase Van Has A Lot Going For It And A Shifter That’ll Keep You Fit!
Pressure is mounting. Time is running out. That perfect gift for that special someone has eluded you for too long. Maybe it is a wife. Maybe a girlfriend. Maybe a drifter that you have seen wandering...
2018 US60 Dragway Nostalgia Nationals Photo Coverage: Historic Cars, Historic Track, Huge Fun!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Now that I am caught up with newer events I am finishing up items from before my cancer treatment up to just after surgery (late June). I didn’t do any...
