Great Americana Read: How to Build a Demo Derby Combine
Oct 13, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The destructive delight of Combine demolition derbies have been highlighted on the electronic pages of BangShift before. The huge, lumbering machines make wicked noise when they collide, and seeing a...
Video Bonanza: Altered Wheelbase Freaks on the Streets!
Oct 13, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Altered wheelbase cars are some of the most romanticized in drag racing history. They represent one of the earliest evolutionary stages of what we now know as Funny Cars, and for their short time in...
Auto Trader Classics Find: An Optimistically Priced 1948 Ford F1 Truck
Oct 13, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Sometimes these find us. More honestly, they fly right off the screen, slap us, and dare us not to show them to the world. This 1948 F1 Ford truck did just that, and we’re happily obliging it....
Crane Cams Introduces 350-plus New Camshafts for 2011
Oct 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Don’t call it a comeback. Crane Cams has announced that their engineers have developed more than 350 new camshaft profiles for 2011. There are applications for virtually everything across the...
Diesel Power Video: A One-Off 24 Cylinder Detroit That Makes Nearly 3,000 hp
Oct 12, 2010Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
Two-stroke Detroit Diesel engines are neat and in their many configurations they have provided reliable grunt for decades in hundreds of applications. The mighty sixteen cylinder examples were the...
Punching Back: Detroit Automakers Gain Domestic Market Share
Oct 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Like a woozy boxer snapping to after whiffing the smelling salts, the Detroit car companies have made gains against their foreign competitors and actually (gasp!) gained domestic market share in what...
Twin-Engine Digger Video: A Retro-Awesome Slick Destroying Machine
Oct 12, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
The age of the twin-engine dragster has long passed. Sadly, there are very few exhibition runners out there to show the drag fans of today, just how bad ass they were. This video was shot at Beaver...
Hero in Bulldozer Saves 32 Houses During Forest Fire
Oct 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
People react differently when placed in life or death situations. Some panic and run, but others bare down, focus, and put fear aside to get the job done. Luckily, for homeowners in Herriman, Utah,...
eBay Find: A Killer 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista Hardtop
Oct 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
We were in a classic Pontiac kind of mood while cruising eBay recently and due to that we located one of the neatest and oddest Poncho performers we’ve ever seen. This is a 1960 Pontiac...
Texas-Sized Event Coverage: The 2010 Longhorn Rod Run
Oct 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Charles Wickam is back with another massive load of photos, this time from the 2010 Longhorn Rod Run, a huge event that takes place every year in Spring, Texas. Like lots of shows this is a money...
Bonus Gallery: More From the Kontinentals Car Club 2010 Day of the Drag Race
Oct 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
Last week we bought you a big gallery of more than 250 photos from the Kontinentals Car Club “Day of the Drag Race” event held in Texas. Well, shooter Charles Wickam found another...
Awesome Wheelie Video: Super Slow Motion Footage, Graceful Launch – Death Wobble Landing
Oct 11, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Super slow motion footage is really cool. This video shows exactly why. The killer 1974 Challenger featured in this piece comes off the starting line and hangs the hoops like a good Stock/Super Stock...
Car Show Gallery:The 2010 Spooktastic Cruise n’ Classic Car Show in Whitman, Massachusetts
Oct 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
Car show season in New England really finds another gear in the early fall. Cool weather and changing foliage are two awesome reasons to get your junk out of the garage and onto the road to enjoy the...
