Author: Brian Lohnes

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Thank You Internet: This Guy Put A Bathtub On A Shifter Kart Chassis And Attacked A Hillclimb

Somedays we’re at odds with the internet. Honestly, like everyone else we have days where we wonder what’s in the mind of the people who inhabit the inter web. This is not one of those days. Why? We found a video of a guy who put a bathtub on a shifter kart chassis and attacked […]

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Awesome History Video: What Happened To The Best NASCAR Machines Of The 1990s? Race Car Investigation!

Race cars are merely collections of rubber, steel, aluminum, and various other stuff. They don’t have feelings, they don’t have a brain. They are inanimate objects used to perform a job. The job of winning races. But some are far better than others. Often times, the reasons as to why some cars have a winning […]

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Watch And Listen To A 527ci Stroker FE Engine Scream Out 811hp On The Dyno

Barry Rabotnik’s name is no stranger to the pages of BangShift. He’s one of the best known engine building specialists for Ford’s vaunted FE family of engines in the country and this video shows one of his hairier creations. This is a 527ci stroker FE engine that has 13:1 compression, a big mechanical roller camshaft, […]

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The Factory Promotion Film For The 1960 Chrysler 300F Is Fantastic And And Even Promises A Version That Technically Never Came

The Chrysler “letter cars” of the late 1950s and early 1960s capture the audacity and balls out nature of Detroit perhaps better than any other line of cars from that time period. They were huge, they had huge power, they looked like nothing else, and they were designed to make the owner feel like a […]

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Stick Shift Zen Video: Ripping An SM420 In A 1966 C30 With Inliner Power – Slow Fun

My buddy Dana was the first guy to get his license in our circle of friends and the first set of wheels he had was a Dodge K-car that had been passed down from his sister. Passed down is kind of a weak description. It had be thrown at him like a burning bag of […]

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This 1966 Pontiac Dealer Promo Film Called Pontiac: The Wide Open World Of Youth Is Great!

If 1964 blew the lid off of the fact that kids had money to spend on cars, the ensuing years were where manufacturers made their direct play to the youth market in the country. From pony cars to monsters like bug Pontiacs you are going see here, it was all about luring a young guy […]

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This Road Test Of A 1984 Buick Regal T-Type Is A Video Harbinger Of What Was To Come In The 1980s – A Solid Start

We all know what happened. From the primordial days of turbocharged V6 engines in the late 1970s to the rocking and rolling days of the late 1980s a lot of things transpired in Detroit to bring performance back to the forefront. 1982 brought us the first version of the Grand National and it was a […]

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Vintage Hugeness Video: Watch An Evolutionary History Of RG LeTourneau Built Wheel Dozers

You’ve got to really be a freak like I am to get cranked up over a video like this but to me, vintage footage that shows off equipment like RG LeTourneau built wheel dozers is well worth watching. Today’s world of heavy equipment and earthmoving would never look the way it does without the massive influence […]

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Thunder Slug: The Story Of The 1,000hp Sunbeam Slug And The Men Who Built It Is Awesome

The leviathan nature of early land speed record cars is the stuff of lore. The fact that took 1,000hp made from a pair of massive engines in a vehicle more than 30 feet long to achieve the first 200mph speed achieved on land is kind of amazing and almost beyond belief. The fact that it […]

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Ride Along With a Three Engine, 5000hp Pulling Tractor!

Pressing play on the video after the jump will probably put you in a place that you’ve never been before. That place is sitting virtually on top of three blown Hemi engines making a combined total of about 5,000hp. Those engines are mounted in line, providing the power for a hella nasty pulling tractor. The […]

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