Is This The World’s Quickest Mack Truck? Watch It Boil The Tires And The Run 11s At 120 +
Mar 21, 2019Brian Lohnes1
We’ve showed you a little window into the wild world of high performance diesel big rig trucks and buses on the small island of Puerto Rico before and we all went nuts for it. These guys LOVE...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Behavior Monitoring, Then And Now – What’s Your Take?
Mar 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart9
Hm. What does an orange Volvo keyfob and today’s question have in common? Behavior observation, that’s what. Here’s what I mean: That orange key is another part of Volvo’s...
Gratuitous Violence: Ramming A Leopard Tank Through Cars At Speed
Mar 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
Here’s some information about the Leopard 2A4 tank: they’ve been around since 1979, weigh in at over sixty-eight tons and are powered by a MTU-sourced twin-turbo V-12 diesel good for...
Twin Blow Outs At 150mph? No Big Deal For The Driver Of This Chevelle
Mar 21, 2019Brian Lohnes1
If there were a time for something to go wrong at the drag strip, the moment you are at peak speed and entering the deceleration zone would not be it. As it were, this was the exact scene at Ozark...
Unhinged: The Thrown Wrench Garage Is Open For Business!
Mar 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
Spring has come to BangShift Mid-West. The trees have buds on them, the early flowers have started to bloom all over the place, the roses in the backyard are starting to leaf out and for the love of...
Watch Two Gentlemen Have A Spirited Disagreement At The Conclusion Of A Spectator Drags Race
Mar 21, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch Two Gentlemen Have A Spirited Disagreement At The Conclusion Of A Spectator Drags Race
Spectator drags at circle track events are the motorized equivalent of an organized bar fight. The combatants are never evenly matched, they are normally lacking the skills to make the thing...
VIN-Free Bird: A 2002 Pontiac Trans Am Track-Day Ready-To-Rock Special
Mar 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart3
Since the beginning of February, my inbox has been filled with messages about track-day events in the Southeast, mainly because I’ve occasionally been able to go play at NCM Motorsports Park...
2019 NHRA Gatornationals: E3 Spark Plugs Pro Mod Action Photos – Awesome Cars, New Looks, New Combos!
Mar 20, 2019Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by David Whealon) – Of all the classes that put on a great show at the 2019 NHRA Gatornationals, E3 Spark Plugs pro modified stood apart in a few different ways. These guys had nearly...
Get Sprung: COMP Cams New .660″ Lift Dual Valve Spring Kits for LS Engines – No Machining!
Mar 20, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Get Sprung: COMP Cams New .660″ Lift Dual Valve Spring Kits for LS Engines – No Machining!
You’ve got an LS engine, you want to stuff some more camshaft in that bad boy. You want more lift, more aggressive ramps on the lobes, you want power, sound, and fury. What you do not want is...
Fearsome Foursome: Here Are The Four Winning Runs From The Pro Categories At The 2019 NHRA Gatornationals
Mar 20, 2019Brian Lohnes1
It was in the top three of the greatest drag races I have ever been to. It’ll likely stay in the top three of the greatest drag races I’ll ever go to. The 50th Amalie Oil NHRA...
Field Of Dreams: An Oklahoma Salvage Yard Is Ready To Move Their Collection. Interested?
Mar 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart7
It’s a dream for us: the old junkyard. None of the Pull-A-Part kind of deal, but the place where cars were parked in rows and were left to the elements, whatever they brought. The kind of place...
Classic YouTube: Pride of Pay ‘n Pak Versus Miss Budweiser On Lake Washington In 1974
Mar 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart2
Seattle is linked with hydroplane racing via the summertime Seafair festival events that take place over July and August. In addition to the Torchlight Parade and Torchlight Run, and the screaming of...
Travel Well: This 1978 Ford F-150 Is Prepared To Be The Perfect Summer Travel Rig!
Mar 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart5
God’s honest truth, I didn’t look at this 1978 Ford F-150 Ranger Lariat as a potential BangShift feature when I first started looking at it. I didn’t see it that way. I saw this...
Something’s Afoot: This Ferrari F40 Looks The Part And Sounds Completely Wrong!
Mar 20, 2019Bryan McTaggart1
The Ferrari F40 is a supercar before it even turns a wheel in anger. It’s the last car that Enzo himself green-lit for production. It had roots that stretched back through the 288 GTO, itself a...