Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Ultimate 64 Challenge Coverage – Our Last Blast Of Photos From Mountain Park Dragway
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We start off this last gallery with THE MAN himself filling the seat of a borrowed ride. Scotty Richardson and his staff have done an amazing job...
Drag Week 2017 Action Photos: Our Last Blast From Byron Dragway – The Historic Strip Was Rockin’
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – So here’s our last blast of drag week 2017 action photos from Byron Dragway in Illinois. By the time we got to Byron there was carnage among the 389 cars that...
This 1941 Buick Roadmaster Coupe Is A Straight Eight Beauty That Was A True Early ’40s Factory Hot Rod
When America was plunged headlong into WWII, it was not long before the US government decided that the domestic auto companies needed to swap their manufacturing might from cars to war materials....
Abe Lincoln Was America’s First True Gearhead President And He Has The Patent To Prove It
When we think of Abe Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, we normally default to the major accomplishments of his presidency. He oversaw one of the darkest, if not the darkest time...
Pulling Carnage Video: When the Weight Sled Fails, Bad Things Happen
The weight sled at a pulling event is the great equalizer. Like an engine dyno or a drag strip it has humbled and conversely, made heroes of many pullers over the course of time. Funny thing is, you...
This Unstoppable Kiwi 4×4 Uses A Diesel Engine, Logs, Angle Iron, And A Truck Frame To Own The Swamp
The tired old adage, “less is more” has never been better applied than it is to the truck you will see driving completely submerged and slogging through the muck in this video. The video...
This Tractor Has The Most Complex “Wheels” Ever Made – Howard Rotopads Rule!
Many of you have likely seen old tractors with track conversions that used rubber or steel tracks that looped around the rear driving wheels and the front wheels to give farmers and other workers...
Video: Goodwin Competition Extreme Marine Engine Heads To 7500 Slowly On The Spintron – Brutal!
Todd Goodwin and the crew up at Goodwin Competition engines are on the bleeding edge of horsepower making technology. One of their mills powered the “See Red” to Drag Week victory in 2015...
BangShift Approved: Watch This Twin Motor, Scratch Built Hot Rod Rip Down The Strip
There’s a big difference between building something freaky looking and building something freak looking that actually works. This video shows a scratch built hot rod with a pair of pump gas...
Runaway Anchors! Watch What Happens When Ships Lose The Handle On 100 Tons Of Iron
Mankind has made a habit of building machines to deal with things and forces which are too strong for our comparatively feeble bodies. Ships are one of the machines that we have crafted as a...
Insane Video: Operator Fells A Smoke Stack on Top Of His Excavator
The Avondale Mills smoke stack had been a pretty significant local landmark in Pell City, Alabama for a long, long time. The mill that it once was attached to had been there since the 1980s and in...
Rough Stuff: This Video Compilation Of 1990s Nostalgia Drag Racing Wrecks Is Crazy
As a kid who grew up kind of obsessed with drag racing and who read virtually everything he could get his hands on, I was woefully unaware of the burgeoning world of nostalgia drag racing until the...
From The Rodder’s Journal Vault: Photos From The Fremont Nostalgia Drags Circa 1986!
(Photos by Steve Coonan) – A first for Bangshift – the guys over at The Rodder’s Journal supplied us with a file of old photos taken at Baylands Raceway in Fremont, California, back in...
