Author Archive: Brian Lohnes
Lions Super Pull Of The South 2014 Coverage: All Engine Photos – Wretched Horsepower Excess At The NTPA Pull
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – I will state with (slight) malice that I was exceedingly jealous of McTaggart last weekend. Why? He attended the Lions Super Pull of the South in Chapel Hill,...
Watch This Subaru WRX STi Driver Make An Epic Save On The Nurburgring To Save His Bacon (And His Car)
Having spent a week with a WRX STi earlier this summer (you can read the BS road test of it here) I can image the dude in this video’s level of excitement when he pulled onto the Nurburgring...
Meltdown Drags 2014 Coverage: Byron Was Jammed With The Coolest Old School Drag Iron In The Country
(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Outside of a select few nostalgia drag races, they are mostly regional affairs. Events like the March Meet, California Hot Rod Reunion, HAMB Drags, and...
A Guy In Canada Wants You To Buy His Bone Stock 1974 El Camino….For $120,000 – We’re Not Kidding
Banghifter Chuck Bodkin sent us a link to an ad for a very nice and clean 1974 Chevy El Camino for sale on the Canadian version of Craigslist called Kijiji. Like American, Equatorian, and Parisian...
James Garner Has Died At Age 86 – One Of The Most BangShift Approved Hollywood Stars Ever
By all accounts, James Garner was a pretty awesome guy. He was a good looking dude who starred in many movies and television shows and perhaps above all for BangShift fans, he was a car guy to the...
Experiments in Speed:Tom Donhou Builds LSR Bike And Rides At Amazing Speed
This is one of the best videos I have ever posted and it is about a bicycle. In fact calling this magnificent study in simplicity and mechanical beauty a bicycle is a crying shame, but that’s...
Old School Gallery: Vintage Gearhead Ads from the Late 1960s
We went trolling through the BangShift archive over the weekend and snagged a couple late 1960s copies of Car Life and Motor Trend Magazine. In those mags were some fantastic old ads for everything...
Fender Banging Video: Full Contact Road Racing From the British Touring Car Championship Series – 1992
While there is no denying that we love our drag racing here at BangShift, we have road racing in our past and still carry an affinity for that type of racing. We were tipped off to this five minutes...
Big Bore Dyno Music – Small Block V8s, Ferrari V12, and A Maserati Inline Six A Savannah Race Engineering
Yesterday we brought you the screams of small inch, four cylinder engines cranking away on the dyno at Savannah Race Engineering so today we’re bringing you some deeper tones and larger...
Pulling Action Gallery: Diesel Tractors, Mini Mods, And Two Wheel Drive Trucks From The NTPA Clinton County Pull
(Photos by David Whealon) – For starters we have to thank ECTA’s official photographer David Whealon for allowing us to use these awesome action photos that he blasted at the recent NTPA...
There’s An Auction Containing Lots Of Sweet Old Iron In KC, Missouri TODAY! Here’s Photos And Info!
We’re late to the game on this, but if you are in the Kansas City, Missouri area today and you want to buy some vintage cool stuff for what should probably be short money, you need to hit the...
Take A (Literally) 15-Second Survey From Jiffy-Tite Motorsports And Enter To Win Free Stuff! (If This Takes Longer Than 15 Seconds You’re Doing It Wrong)
Jiffy-Tite Motorsports makes the best fittings in the world for your hot rod or race car because they are super easy to use, they don’t leak, and they can make jobs like carb and transmission...
This 1985 Chevy C30 Hauler Has A Four-Speed, A Big Block, And Cheesy 1980s Graphics – In Other Words, Perfection
Hey, I dig the Roadkill hauler as much as the next guy but it does not have these sweet graphics or a four speed, so this one is better, right? The truck is insanely clean and would be the perfect...
Watch This Awesome Dodge Power Wagon Mega-Truck Successfully Complete A Back Flip – Awesome Clip
A few days ago we showed you what happened when a huge truck tried to perform a backflip and instead the entire front suspension fell out of the truck in violent and spectacular fashion. Today we...