Classic Ad Video: The 1967 Pontiac GTO
Apr 08, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
We took a little heat yesterday for admitting that we thought Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” television commercial for the Charger was kind of neat. We’ve found a classic...
Barris Kustoms Releases a Custom 2010 Camaro, We Release Our Lunch
Apr 08, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Some truly whacked stuff has left the doors of Barris Kustoms in recent years. There was a Prius for starters, but this 2010 Camaro “Spirit” beats them all by a country mile. A...
You’re Doing It Wrong Video: How Not To Unload an Excavator
Apr 08, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
There are lots of videos on the Internet of guys doing crazy impressive stuff with heavy equipment. This is not one of them. Luckily, according to the YouTube caption anyway, no one was hurt and the...
Crazy Photo Sequence: Racer Highsides a Motorcycle, Impersonates Superman
Apr 08, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
There are a multitude of reasons that we don’t ride motorcycles. Reason number one is that we’re slightly less coordinated than a drunk roller skating on a ice rink covered in marbles. We...
Dumbass: Guy Robs Store, Uses Stretch H2 Limo as Getaway Car
Apr 08, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
You have to be dumb to rob a gas station. You have to be fourteen levels deeper than dumb to do it and use a stretched H2 limo as the escape vehicle. A 24-year-old Kansas man, Eric Henson, did just...
Doorslammer Drag Video: Pro Mod Action From the 1990 IHRA Fall Nationals
Apr 07, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Since we’re on an obvious door slammer kick these last few days, the natural progression leads up to some awesome vintage Pro Mod footage from the first season that the class existed. In 1990,...
eBay Find: An Original 1963 Plymouth Savoy AWB Racer
Apr 07, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
When we were ooglinf the photos of the Arnie Beswick driven Mercury A/FX racer yesterday we couldn’t help but wonder if there were more surviving AWB race cars out there for sale. We found this...
Rest in Peace: Hummer Brand Officially Dead
Apr 07, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Well, that’s the end of that. Hummer dealers were notified yesterday that letters were being drawn up and sent to them regarding the ending of their franchise agreements. After the deal with...
Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
Apr 07, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
Apr 06, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...
Shop Tour: Custom Automotive Machine – Weymouth, Ma
Apr 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We stopped by Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts, last weekend to beg a favor off shop owner and operator Dana Hard. We had managed to completely botch the removal of broken exhaust...
Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race
Apr 06, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...
Arnie Beswick Driven 1965 Mercury Comet A/FX Car Heads to Auction, SOHC Motor and All
Apr 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve been Comet crazy here over the last couple of days, but reader Phil Cooper tipped us off to one of the coolest Comets ever built. This A/FX car was raced by Arnie Beswick who is known for...
The Foose John Deere Project is Complete, Can They Put it Back?
Apr 06, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Chip Foose John Deere 4020 project was unveiled a little while back and frankly we didn’t say anything much about it because we were trying to figure out what the hell they had sone with...
