Author: Brian Lohnes

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Miniature Blown Small Block Video: Listen To This 6ci Devil Fire Up And Run – So Cool!

We love miniature engines and have featured dozens of them over the years here at BangShift and each time we discover what we think is a new one we like to show it to you. Now we know that this engine is not brand new but the video is new to us, so understand that […]

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In Estonia, They High Speed Rally Old Russian Trucks Packed With Screaming V8s – This Video Is AWESOME

Your eyes are not deceiving you, that really is an old truck power sliding around a dirt corner on a rally course. We got tipped off to this madness by our buddy Arild who found this video and passed it along. They are crazy for rally racing in Estonia and they’ll race anything. Typically the […]

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The 800 Club: The Biggest Production Car Engines In American History

(Photo credit: ConceptCarz.com) – Being that we live in the world of the 100+ hp per liter of displacement engine now, what about the other end of the spectrum. Human history pretty much guarantees that if we’re obsessed with tiny engines these days we were once obsessed with massive engines, right? The fact is that we […]

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Watch a Honda CRV Wreck in Horrifying Fashion on the Nürburgring

Imagine being able to slap down $35.00 and run whatever junk you are driving around the coolest road course in America. Keep imagining because you can’t do that here, but in Germany, you can throw your 35 skins down and haul ass as fast as you can around the famed Nürburgring. If you are driving something […]

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The Greatest Muscle Car Print Ad That You’ve Probably Never Seen – Pontiac Perfection

Pontiac advertising in the 1960s was driven by the colorful, creative, and brilliant Jim Wangers. This ad below which came from a 1964 copy of Road and Track magazine has his finger prints all over it. I think it is the greatest muscle car print ad of all time because other than seeing the word Pontiac at […]

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Did You Know That There’s A World Log Skidder Competition? You Do Now! (Video here)

I know a few guys who operate heavy equipment for a living and they are all rightfully proud of the skills and abilities that they have developed over the years at their job. We’re talking the talent to put huge machines into small places, get themselves out of potential trouble spots, and basically do a […]

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Holding Up? These Guys Stick A 180,000 Mile 1989 Shelby CSX On The Dyno To Check Its Power Levels

As things age they tend to slow down, right? Athletes lose a step of performance, cars give up some of their horsepower through wear, and things just generally soften up. But do thy always? These guys wanted to see and the method they chose was to stick a 180,000 mile 1989 Shelby CSX onto the […]

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This McCulloch Promotional Film From 1961 Is Awesome And Stars The Late Don Knotts!

Everything about this video is awesome. From the sound of the angry McCulloch racing engines, the goofy coolness of Don Knotts, the race footage shown, and the fact that it was made to help McCulloch hawk their short lived line of racing karts. Long known as an engine company McCulloch decided to offer complete karts […]

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Turbo Weirdo: The 1985 Pontiac Sunbird Turbo Was One Of The Seemingly Rogue PerFormance Cars of GM’s 1980s

The saddest thing about the 1980s and GM was that the things that had made them a global colossus and were seen as their greatest strengths just 20 years before turned into giant negatives for the company. The version of GM that exists today is so far off the map from where the company was […]

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Video of Zen: Watch This Guy Restore An Old Hitachi Drill In Time Lapse – Neat!

We hear it all too much. We hear it every day. We live in a disposable age now. No one fixes TV sets anymore. It’s hell to find parts to fix your appliances. The mantra is simply to just replace stuff. It wasn’t always like this. There was a time that basically everything you got […]

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