Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
This 1962 Buick Invicta Custom Estate Wagon Is The Perfect Cruiser And Slingshot Push Car
If you had yourself a dragster in the middle to late 1960s, chances are strong that you had a wagon like this one to drag the thing to the track and then push start it. Sure, some of the fancy tracks...
2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion: The Coolest Rods, Trucks, Muscle Cars, and…Vans?!
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – It was a heck of a weekend at Sterling Airport during the 2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion. Steve Magnante was announcing the action, hundreds of the coolest...
HUGE NEWS: BangShift To Provide LIVE Streaming Coverage Of 10th Annual NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl!
From July 30th through August 2nd BangShift.com will provide live streaming video coverage of the 10th annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing. This is a race that combines the...
Watch This NASCAR Small Block Get Pulled Six Times In A Row To 9,700 RPM As A Race Simulation
We show you high RPM dyno pulls with frequency around here because they are awesome. Who does not love the sound of an engine turning in the upper reaches of the four digit zone and into the five...
This 1968 Cadillac El Dorado El Camino Is Very Interesting And Cool – Would You Cruise It?
You can count this as a new one on us! The eBay ad promoting the sale of this unique 1968 Cadillac El Dorado-Camino gives no details as to the origins, construction, or inspiration for this evil...
Hilarious Video: Watch A Pickup Strung With About One Million Firecrackers Put On The Performance Of A Lifetime
BangShifter Jack Pereira tipped us off to this video that may actually be beyond description but we’re going to give it a try here. At first we thought we were watching a well used Chevy pick up...
Watch The Footage Of A Small Plane Landing On A Carlsbad, California Beach On The 4th Of July – No One Died!
While I was off announcing a drag race n Ohio and Chad was at home wrenching, lots of people in Carlsbad, California decided to hit the beach for Independence Day. That seemed like a fine plan...
Electrical Box: We (Attempt to) Make An Electric Car Our Primary Wheels For A Week – The Future?
So sometimes you get the chance to do something in the name of science and you just have to do it. Having never driven a true electric car (only hybrids) more than around the block, I was...
This Pro Street 1949 Willys Panel Truck Has A Hot Small Block And A Unique Look That We’re Loving
Panel trucks are cool in and unto themselves. In the decades before vans became a thing, the panel truck acted in much the same way although they offered less space and that’s why they all but...
Watch Austin Dillon’s Incredible Wreck From The Coca Cola 400 – Walks Away, Engine and Trans Ripped Out
Austin Dillon walked away from one of the most horrific wrecks that has ever taken place at Daytona International Speedway last night. The crash came during the packed conclusion of the NASCAR Coca...
Best of BS 2015: Making A 1993 Ford Bronco Into A Late Model Ford Raptor Seamlessly Makes This Guy A Hero
It is always cool when people integrate new stuff into older cars and trucks but sometimes that program doesn’t exactly work as planned. The newer bits can be awkward looking, just not fit...
Best of BS 2015: When You Fire An Angry Equipment Operator You Better Take His Keys
This is destruction video supreme. According to the description on this video, what you are about to see is the scene left after an equipment operator was fired on a Friday afternoon and decided to...
Best of BS 2015: Driver Survives Complete Annihilation Of His Truck With Minor Scratches In I-84 Pileup
This is literally unbelievable. The man you see pinned into the annihilated wreckage of his pickup truck survived needing only “two band-aids and some ice” after an horrendous pileup...
Best Of BS 2015: Watch This Homebuilt Ford Cleveland V12 Made From Two 302 Blocks and Three Cleveland Heads Make Dyno Pulls
First off, you’re right. Ford never made a Cleveland V12 but brilliant hot rodder Jan Baker sure did and we have video that shows how the whole package came together and of the engine making a...