Daytona Craigslist Find: Vintage 1957 Chevy Race Car
Feb 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Continuing our look at Daytona, Florida, through the eyes of Craigslist, we found a vintage Chevy. This ’57 Chevy is a certified wreck. It’s thrashed, torn, worn, missing half of itself,...
Viper Dead in July, Could be Revived in 2012
Feb 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Viper’s near 20 year production run comes to an end in July. Love them or hate them the car did a lot for the image of Chrysler when it went from wildly popular show car to a 1993 production...
Daytona Craigslist Find: Bizarro V8 Astro Van
Feb 12, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
In honor of this weekend’s running of the Daytona 500 we’re going to take you on a tour of Daytona, Florida, in the only way we know how, through the eyes of Craigslist. If you’ve...
Scots Test Out Amphibious Bus, We’ll Watch From Shore
Feb 12, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Human beings have the strange ability to continually develop new and fascinating ways of transportation. We also have the ability to create modes of transportation that could lead to the grisly...
Kids Crash Car Into House, Church Deacon Issues Greatest Quote Ever
Feb 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Imagine if your kids (yes we mean multiple kids) stole your car, loaded it up with friends, and then crashed the car into a house. You’d be totally pissed. You’re on the hook for the...
1,000hp Kenworth For Sale in Texas
Feb 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We got tipped off to this wild beast of a 1979 Kenworth and our jaws hit the floor. We’ve heard of trucks sporting 500 and 600hp engines from Caterpillar and other heavy equipment makers, but a...
Mississippi Becomes the Thirty-Ninth State To Ban Nitrous In Street Cars
Feb 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Mississippi legislature recently passed the Trooper Steve Hood Act: The Nitrous Prohibition Act. The law is named after a state trooper who died in a high speed chase while in pursuit of a...
The Pinewood Derby is Serious Business
Feb 11, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Since we were never in the Scouts, our knowledge of their traditional Pinewood Derby is limited. We know that the cars start out as wooden blocks and that each kid is supposed to fashion their own...
The Ultimate Stick Shift Training Vehicle, the Cummins Powered 2010 Ram 3500
Feb 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The insane power levels that are available from diesel engines in trucks these days really make our mouths water. You can buy a pickup truck now that makes equivalent power to a medium-duty straight...
All the Force Girls Are on Fuel For the Winternationals
Feb 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’re normally pretty good with this type of information but we were pretty surprised to learn that all the Force girls—Ashley, Brittany, and Courtney (excluding John’s oldest...
Caption This Photo: A Bad Day At The Limo Driver’s Office
Feb 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Imagine the noise that this thing made when it “ran aground.” We were forwarded this photo by our buddy Pete DeVita and it is simply too good not to share and get some great captions on....
C.A.R.B Advisory — Running Racing Fuel in Your Street Car is Illegal, Even If You Are Racing It
Feb 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We were tipped off to an advisory bulletin released by the dreaded California Air Resource Board, the infamous C.A.R.B. This advisory, in typically convoluted government speak, seems to indicate that...
Finally, An Update in the Jeremy Mayfield Case
Feb 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Finally! We’ve been waiting for months to hear some new stuff about the Jeremy Mayfield case against NASCAR. The actual trial is not set to begin until September, but the pre-trial wrangling is...
Ebay Find: The $200,000 1985 Camaro IROC
Feb 10, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
We didn’t screw up on the dollar amount in the title. This is a 1985 IROC Z28 sporting a TPI 305, an automatic transmission, 747 miles, and the signatures of nearly 100 actors, musicians, and...
