Cops Bust Big Rig and Honda Street Racing, Honda was Losing
Jun 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Police in Slidell, Louisiana recently stopped and cited two drivers for street racing. They were not in the normal hell-raising chariots. In fact, they were in a big rig towing an empty gasoline tank...
Video: BangShift.com and Ridetech present BBQ Bologna Bash 2010 for the Forum Freaks!
Jun 10, 2010Chad ReynoldsCRASH & BURN, Videos
Check it out! Video from the First Annual BangShift.com Ridetech Forum Freaks BBQ Bologna Bash! You’ll dig it.
Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: The Cherry Bomb Guys Fight Their Truck…and WIN
Jun 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
The guys from Cherry Bomb have been battling day in and day out this week. The van cooked some of the wiring in the engine compartment, rendering it a trailer specimen, the dudes with the rat rod...
Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: Keys in Cars, Hanging with Rocky and Jim
Jun 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
Earlier this week we ran a bunch of stories of people heading to the starting point of the 2010 Power Tour. There are still people hooking up with the tail end of the tour, and as everyone knows,...
Power Tour Guerilla Coverage: More Bologna, Tickets, and Bumper Stickers
Jun 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
The 2010 Power Tour is raging on and the BangShift reading population has kicked their submissions into high gear. There were fines, keys locked in cars, and rain drops, but spirits remain high and...
Killer Vintage Drag Video: The Ford Drag Team Circa 1969
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
This is one of the most awesome vintage drag videos we’ve ever seen and that’s no exaggeration. It’s old footage of the 1969 version of the Ford Drag Team with Hubert Platt, Ed...
Power Tour Day 4 includes cars, fire, and meat. Well sorta…
Jun 09, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
Day 4 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Power Tour was event filled for the BangShift and Ridetech crews. We had a new group of cars coming in to finish the tour, 150 Forum Freaks to cook for, and...
Good News: It’s Not Just Americans Who Pay Stupid Money for Cars at Auction
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Andrew Bogut is an Australian basketball player who pulls home serious coin as a starter for the Milwaukee Bucks. He’s also a car guy. Recently, he was at an auction and got into a bidding...
Ford Drag Team to be Featured at 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Ford formed their Drag Team in 1963 and in doing so stated their intentions to win the hearst and minds of hot rodders and horsepower obsessed kids on drag strips across America. Chrysler and GM soon...
Pat Musi Back in Action with NHRA This Weekend
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Soft spoken New Jersey native Pat Musi will be racing this weekend at Englishtown at the NHRA SuperNationals. The last time Musi suited up at an NHRA national event he was racing in Pro Stock, now...
Angry Elephant: Dyno Video of Lee Sicilio’s Hemi Daytona LSR Car
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
Our buddy Scott Clark, known as DieselGeek on the BangShift.com forums spends some of his free time tuning fuel injection setups on all different kinds of machinery. He’s messed around with...
Coverage: First Annual BangShift.com Forum Freaks Bologna Bash
Jun 09, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
When Ridetech decided to partner with us here at BangShift.com, in an effort to support our own Forum Freaks during Hot Rod’s Power Tour, we all knew it was going to be a good time. And when we...
Guerilla Power Tour Coverage: Busted Cars, Superman, and Deer Heads
Jun 09, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
The hits just keep on coming! Tomfoolery and fun seemed to be the big theme of the photo submissions today as Power Tour participants made their way toward Bowling Green, Kentucky....
