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Build Gallery: A 1965 Mustang That Combines New And Old School Elements With Great Parts From Rick’s Tanks, FAST, And More!

Posted in Car Features May 2, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

One of the toughest things to do when building a car is to combine old school elements and current technology/styling together. This  Mustang that’s going together at Tube Chassis Designz seems to be doing a damned good job at it. The motor is a classic FE with stack injection but a closer look reveals that [...]

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Run Silent, Run Deep: We Drive America’s Best Sleeper, The 2013 Ford Taurus SHO

Posted in Car Features April 8, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  3 comments

(Photos by Dave Nutting) This is the kind of car that can get you both into and out of trouble very quickly. With sedate styling that blends seamlessly with its surroundings and power enough to run deep into the 13-second bracket at the strip, the 2013 Ford Taurus is America’s best sleeper. Over the span [...]

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The War Horse: A 1966 Straight Axle Mustang Fast Back That Punches All The Right BangShift Buttons!

Posted in Car Features April 3, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  4 comments

(Photos by Charles Wickam and David Reese) – When Charles called and asked if we would be interested in doing a feature on a totally kick ass 1966 Mustang fastback done in the gasser style that gets street driven, wins car shows, and also is drag raced, we told him HELL YES without having seen [...]

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Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?

Posted in Car Features February 27, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  13 comments

Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some great work being done on cars at floor level, the real star of the show is the vintage [...]

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Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!

Posted in Car Features February 22, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following. They have some fiberglass work being done now so as they’re cranking on other customer projects in the shop. One of [...]

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America’s Most Beautiful Roadster 2013 is John Mumford’s 1927 Ford Track T Built By Roy Brizio

Posted in Car Features January 27, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

We had the opportunity to meet and hang out with Mumford during the Goodguys Rodfather Tour, and can tell you that he is one awesome guy, just like his cars. Roy Brizio did the final assembly on this one and got it ready for the AMBR competition, and there is no doubt it was a [...]

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BangShift Exlusive: George Poteet’s, Rad Rides Built, Talladega Inspired ’69 Torino Assembly Pics

Posted in FORD January 9, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

(Photos by Rob McGaffin) The famed 1969 Torino, owned by George Poteet, that is being built at Rad Rides By Troy, has been the talk of the hot rodding world for the past couple years. And thanks to photographer Rob McGaffin, we’ve got update photos of it’s final assembly just taken yesterday! To say that [...]

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Car Feature: One Ultra Bitchin, Kick Ass, 1930 Model A Ford We Want Bad!

Posted in FORD January 8, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > > 

Bad ass, bitchin, rad, cool, awesome… Not one of these conveys how bad assedly bitchin the Lafferty’s awesome, rad, and cool, 1930 Ford Model A really is. And before you get your panties all wadded up about how it’s not “traditional enough”, SHUT UP! All that matters, is that this IS one of the coolest [...]

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BangShift Test Drive: The 2013 Ford Raptor – We Drag It, ‘Wheel It, and Jump It!

Posted in Car Features December 24, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Tom Phair, Kerri Lohnes, and the author) –  The most commonly asked question we had during our time with the 2013 Ford SVT Raptor was, “Is that thing fun to drive?” The answer is ten times yes. The truck stands as a monument to Ford’s swagger in the current marketplace and it has [...]

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Best of BangShift 2012: The1967 Shelby GT500 Barn Find – Found in Death Valley California

Posted in Car Features December 24, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

When we got the call from our pal Jon at Tube Chassis Designz that we needed to get down to his shop to see something cool, we jumped in the car and went. We were greeted with one of the coolest single cars we have ever seen. This is a factory stock 1967 Shelby GT500 [...]

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Coyote Den: This Harmless Looking T-Bird Is One Of The Coolest Sleepers We Have Ever Seen

Posted in Car Features December 18, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tube Chassis Designz) – We all love sleepers. Whether it is the idea of smashing someone with a flashy ride in the mouth (figuratively speaking) with something that looks like a sled, the skill required to actually build one sneaky enough to fool everyone, or just the idea of walking [...]

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BS Barn Find Gallery: The Fortman and Kerr ’32 Ford – Winner At 1954 World Series of Drag Racing

Posted in Car Features November 21, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) - Ok , we have all heard the stories  before. We heard of a guy, who knows a guy,that saw a guy, that knew this guy’s next door neighbors’ best friend that has an old car in a garage. Most of these stories end up being car guy folk lore. [...]

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SEMA 2012 Featurette: The Pure Vision Martini Mustang T5-R — An Incredible “What If” Of Ford Racing History

Posted in Car Features November 8, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

Steve Strope and his Pure Vision company have created some amazing cars over the years but this could be his master stroke. Dubbed the T5-R, the 1966 Mustang you see before you is a product of Strope’s imagination and the outcome of a fictional meeting between Ford executive and the famed European Martini Racing organization. [...]

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Mini-Feature Replay: The Incredible 1960 F100 by Two Brothers Custom Trucks From SEMA 2011!

Posted in Car Features October 29, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Editor’s Note: Our SEMA 2012 coverage will begin later today. Here’s my favorite piece of iron from SEMA 2011!) –  Of all the vehicles I saw and crawled over at the 2011 SEMA show, none hit me harder than this 1960 F100 truck, built by 2 Brothers Custom Trucks of Springfield, Illinois. Cool from every [...]

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Car Feature Re-Run: The King Komet, A 1968 Mercury Cyclone Drag Race Survivor

Posted in Car Features April 26, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

There’s a lame saying about old drag cars and how they never die and it is total crap. Old drag cars get bent, wrecked, blown up, burned down, hacked up, and restored to factory condition all the time. That’s why one that survives with the total package of history, coolness, a winning pedigree, and a [...]

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Mini-Feature Re-Run: Ohio George Montgomery’s 1969 Mustang Boss 429 Twin Turbo Gasser

Posted in Car Features March 23, 2012  by  Brian Lohnes > > 

(Editor’s note: On Monday we are running a story about a bunch of old school turbo drag cars that you have probably never heard of before. This is one of them. We ran this little mini-feature a couple of years ago when we saw the car at the Holley NHRR. Here’s another look. There were [...]

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