Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
It’s Killin’ Time! Stevie Fast Jackson Takes First NHRA Pro Mod Win In Topeka!
By his own account, this is the biggest most important race win of Stevie Fast Jackson’t career. The final round re-match from the NHRA Atlanta race saw Jackson looking over to see Mike...
Watch Sebastien Bourdais Suffer A Titanic Wreck During Indy 500 Qualifying – Suffers Fractured Hip, Pelvis
In the video below you will see Sebastien Bourdais suffer a titanic wreck during Indy 500 qualifying. This is about as scary looking as it gets. The car wiggles when entering the corner and then...
BS Daily Tune Up: Six Days On The Road – Dave Dudley (1963)
If there was one guy that owned the imaginary genre of “trucker music” during the 1960s and 1970s, it was Dave Dudley. His baritone voice spoke right to the diesel jockeys hauling all...
Watch a Blown, Dual Carb’d, Ardun Headed Flattie Grunt Out 450+ Horsepower on the Dyno
We were chatting up a gearhead buddy recently who is into the old stuff…like the real old stuff. This dude has real vintage parts like a Kong ignition,a pile of ancient Thicksun intake...
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Squares Off Against the Green Mamba Jet Car at Houston International Speedway
Boy, this is a killer video! Shot in 1968 at Houston International Speedway, it shows Tommy Ivo in his fuel dragster taking on Doug Rose and the Green Mamba jet dragster. The coolest part is that...
Want To Know How To Drive A Slow Car Fast? Watch These Guys Put On A Clinic! Awesome Battle
It’s pretty cliche to toss out the old “Momentum is a terrible thing to waste” cliche here, but damn if it isn’t appropriate. When you only have 100 horsepower in your Honda Fit to work with,...
Is This The World’s Most Unassuming 150mph, 10-Second Drag Car? Plain White Wrapper Hatch Back ‘Yoda From Australia
I’m not sure what the level above sleeper is or the level below sleeper as that may be the more appropriate direction but this little Toyota Starlet in Australia is on that level. A plain white...
In 1980 The Williams F1 Team Tested An F1 Car That Had No Springs Or Shock Absorbers – This Video Follows The Test
Rumor and innuendo are two of the biggest forces that drive any sorts of innovation in racing. One team hears that another is going to do something and since that idea is pretty radical and they had...
Watch This Audi S1 Quattro Tear Up A Hill Climb In Slovakia – Awesome Driver In A Madly Overpowered Car
We’ve written lots of stuff about Group B rally cars here on BangShift over the years and one of the most fearsome of the “Killer Bs” was the Audi Quattro S1. This all-wheel-drive...
The Amazing Looking Documentary McLaren Set To Premier In Indy Advance Of The Indy 500 – US Distribution To Follow
A little while back we showed your the trailer for the film McLaren that’s about the life and incredible success of Bruce McLaren. His life was amazing, his life was far too short, and his life...
This Outside Car Video Of Benjamin Board’s Wild Ride Shows How Crazy It Got And His Awesome Top End Driving Job
The other day we showed you in-car video of Benjamin Board’s crazy pro mod ride at the 2017 Throwdown in T-Town. Urban Hillbilly Action Videos released their out-of-car video and it really...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Person In The Gearhead Realm Inspires You?
By now if you have been reading BangShift for any length of time you know that I am a certified history nerd. I revel in learning about cool races, upsets, maverick innovators, crazed racers, single...
Hydraulic Press Channel Fun! Check Out Various Wooden Blocks Exploding Under Pressure
The Hydraulic Press Channel never fails to deliver the good stuff. Today we’re looking at a recent video where the crazies with the press decided to crush a few different type of wooden blocks....
Weiand Releases Old-School Finned Oil Pans For Chevy and Ford Engines – Retro Looks, Modern Performance
This is cool news. Weiand has released old school finned oil pans for Chevy and Ford engines. These pans hark back to the days of classic drag racing where high riding gassers and other cars had...