AutoTrader Classics Find: A Neato 1962 Corvette Vintage Road Racer
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We were recently chatting with a buddy about Corvettes. The topic of conversation gravitated to the classic American sports car and which variation of it we’d want to own. That one came in like...
Vintage Muscle Car Road Test Video: A 1971 Olds 442 W30 ‘Vert Gets Thrashed
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
With a total production of about 30 cars, it’s rare to lay eyes on a real 1971 Olds 442 W30 convertible, so seeing one of these cars get thrashed on a road course, spun out, and thrown through...
Pay Up Sucka: GM Repays US and Canadian Loans, Optimistic That Tax Payers Will Be Fully Repaid
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Ed Whitacre was working the media channels hard core yesterday, announcing that GM had paid Canada and the US back their 8-billion in loans and then jetting (remember when that was a bad thing?) to...
Carnage Video: Violent Sprint Car and Midget Wrecks
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
It was bought to our attention that Sprint Car and Midget racing season was cranking up and this video was tipped off to us as a way to mark that. You may think it odd to mark the start of the season...
Old Stock Car Goodness: The Historic Grand National Stock Car Association
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We find old cars to be exceptionally bad ass. There are few things neater in our nostalgia lovin’ hearts than the big iron that raced on road courses and ovals during decades past. We’ve...
BREAKING NEWS: Tasca Ford’s 2010 Cobra Jet Mustang Runs 8.97/153mph!
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Carl Tasca, wheeling 2010 Cobra Jet #27, made the first run in the eight-second zone for the limited edition factory drag cars today at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire. As best we know...
Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Tuff Truck races are normally a good time. The competitions are basically an off-road style obstacle course complete with jumps, mud, and other impedances. The trucks are all home-built creations and...
Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Tech Stories
It was all going to be so perfect. We were going to re-ring one cylinder in Goliath’s 292ci straight six and then it would be off to the shop to have the rotted cab floors repaired. That pipe...
NASCAR Track Operator Calls Start and Park Drivers Thieves
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The president of Texas Motor Speedway accused start-and-park NASCAR teams of “stealing money” and said that NASCAR needs to find ways to stop the practice. Eddie Gossage, the guy in...
Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
After seeing the photos of Ellis Vial putting his killer Pro Mod up on two wheels, we went hunting for some cool video showing the early days of the class. We did even better than that, we found some...
Great Save Photos: Elllis Vial Does Some Unintentional Stunt Driving at VMP
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We were cruising through the website of the wildest drag racing series in America, ADRL.us, the other day and came across an item on their blog we had to share with you. Ellis Vial, a racer in the...
Shop Tour: We hang out at Diversified Creations
Apr 20, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
While covering the fabled Detroit Autorama a few weeks ago, we were lucky enough to get some time with several friends in the Detroit area. And as you would expect from us, these guys are all hard...
Project Car Update: Eddie Krawiec’s Project Radial-ation Camaro
Apr 20, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
A while back we introduced you to 2008 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle champion Eddie Kraweic’s bitchin’ drag radial project car. It’s being built by DMC Racing in Halifax,...
Crazy Screaming Video: A Two-Stroke V8 Powered Sand Rail On the Dyno
Apr 20, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
We’ve heard screaming motors before, but never in our lives have we heard anything like the sound of this Evinrude two-stroke V8 powered sand car (not the one pictured). The engine is actually...
