Muscle Car Sales Boom Against All Odds
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Everyone, it seems, even the auto company executives themselves, is perplexed as to why sales of cars like the Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger continue to troop onward and upward when the rest of new...
National Dragster: How Vintage Drag Photos Circle the Web
Nov 12, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Today’s online column from National Dragster editor Phil Burgess is pretty interesting. He describes how, last year, he re-posted a bunch of vintage drag racing photos that he found on the HAMB...
Incredible Barn-Load of Mopars: Daytonas, Chargers, Darts, More
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Over at Moparts.com, a user called Devil has posted photos of his trip to Bloomington, Illinois, where some friends introduced him to a mystery man with a heart-stopping collection of rare Chryslers....
Car-Crash Fatalities are Down. Auto-Pilot Cars May Solve That.
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
According to a story on MSNBC.com, the NHTSA’s reported 37,261 auto-related deaths last year were the lowest since 1961. Considering how many more cars are on the road now compared to 1961,...
A Closer Look at Goliath: Bangshift.com’s New Project 1965 C50 Truck
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
By now you have probably seen the photos of us dragging our handsome brute of a truck home from the woods of Maine. We’ve named the truck Goliath for obvious reasons. The thing is massive....
Roadside Find: 1931 Ford Model A Sedan Survivor
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
On a summer day trip to Maine with the kids, we were minding our business, walking down the sidewalk when the wonderful sound of a low compression flattie four filled our ears. We wheeled around...
Bangshift.com Says Thank You to all Veterans
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We just wanted to take a minute to thank all of the BangShift.com readers who have previously served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Your sacrifices and hard work allow places like...
Pay Up Sucka: NASCAR Charges Crew Chief Big For Low Car
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We have to laugh at this stuff. Every time we hear about a NASCAR team failing a post-race inspection we wait for the punchline that is the fine. It’s not a joke because the amount is so small....
Mooresville Dragway Owners Arrested on Drug Charges
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Mooresville Dragway, a popular and well known North Carolina eighth-mile facility, was temporarily shut down last weekend when the track operators, a husband and wife, were arrested on drug charges....
Cat-Seeking Stepmom Lisa Mayfield Pleads Guilty to Trespassing at Jeremy’s House
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Yesterday, Lisa Mayfield, the stepmother of suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield, entered a guilty plea on trespassing charges stemming from an August incident where she was involved in an...
Video: 2010 Camaro Pace Car Delivered in a Helicopter!
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
This is very cool, and we didn’t know about it because, big surprise, we did not watch the NASCAR Dickies 500 last weekend. But we did find out about this from our new friends at Autoblog.com....
Time to Lend a Hand: Car Guy Needs Some Help and You Could Win A Killer Camaro
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
There’s lots of tough sledding out in the world today. The economy is tough as we all know, winter is speeding toward the northern parts of the country, and many people face uncertainty at...
Killer Vintage Gallery: Car Haulers
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
Bangshift.com reader Jim Gonia knows us too well. He shot us a message and it contained about twenty photos of 1950’s tractor trailer trucks laden with awesome, brand new cars. We’re...
Site of the Week: The SEMA Action Network
Nov 11, 2009Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve been spending lots of time recently talking about the glitz and pomp of the 2009 SEMA Show here at BangShift.com so we thought it was hyper important to remind everyone of the really hard...
