Drag Race Gallery: BangShifters at Lebanon Valley Dragway’s 2011 Opening Day
Apr 11, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
The official sign that Spring has arrived in the Northeast happens when racing starts, well that weekend finally arrived and a few BangShift forum members decided to celebrate by getting together and...
Show Gallery: The 2011 Bayshore Fine Rides Car Show – Baytown, Texas
Apr 11, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
The Bayshore Fine Rides Car Club certainly knows how to throw a party! For 23 years they have been holding a big car show in Baytown, Texas that draws everything from lifted mud boggers to killer...
Book Review: Pontiac – The Performance Years by Martyn Schorr
Apr 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
We recently finished reading Pontiac: The Performance Years by Martyn Schorr. This book is a collection of stories and articles that highlight the golden age of Poncho performance, roughly 1959-1974....
UPDATE: A DIY Classic Car Restoration From India
Apr 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
When we received an e-mail with the link we’re sharing below about a guy restoring a classic car in India, we were very leery of what we’d find. Rather than seeing lots of bizarre fixes,...
Update Video: The Radial Engine MR2 is Running Like a Top
Apr 08, 2011Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Last Sunday we showed you video of a Toyota MR2 that has been re-powered with an old radial airplane engine. Go ahead and re-read that if you need to. That first video showed the engine running, but...
Bitchin’ Bill Thomas Nova To be Sold at Mecum in May
Apr 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
One of the cars that will be sold at the Mecum Auction in Indy this May is a super cool 1965 Chevy Nova, built by racing legend Bill Thomas. The car is being listed as a Funny Car and that may...
Video: More Bad Ass Amphibious Military Truck Action, Bonus Splash Down!
Apr 08, 2011Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Yesterday’s video of the old Army truck driving around the bottom of a lake was pretty great. We were then tipped off to some far more modern military truck action, this time featuring a...
Ridetech Street Challenge Kit: So easy a girl can do it! Check out the install here.
Apr 07, 2011Chad ReynoldsCHEVY, Project Cars
Now ladies, don’t get mad at us, at least we didn’t say “So easy a chick can do it!” We’re really impressed with Michelle Harvey and here Camaro install that is up on...
Nitrous Express Duramax Diesel Mustang leaves the building.
Apr 07, 2011Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION, Videos
The Nitrous Express Mustang is going going gone. Our pal Mike Wood, owner of Nitrous Express, has been a fellow Drag Week glutton for several years now, and we have enjoyed hanging out with him and...
Bangshift Mini-Feature: The Piss’d Off Pete 1960 Peterbilt
Apr 07, 2011Brian LohnesCar Features, TRUCKS, Videos
One of the coolest projects to hit the airwaves and webwaves over the last couple of years is Randy Grubb’s creation known as the Pissed Off Pete. This is a 1960 Peterbilt truck modified in the...
Another Icon Lost: Joe Mondello has passed away
Apr 07, 2011Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
2010 seemed to be a year of many losses for the hot rod and racing world, and 2011 hasn’t started off great either. We have just received word that Joe Mondello died this morning. Joe was...
Carnage of the Week: An Old Dodge Camper in Hilarious Action on a Tough Truck Track
Apr 07, 2011Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
It doesn’t get any cooler than this. Someone bought an old crusty Dodge camper at a public auction for close to nothing, took said camper to the county fair, and then entered the thing, bone...
Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass Poncho Powered Pontiac Drag Warrior
Apr 07, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News, Racing Junk Find
There are lots of Pontiac bodied drag race cars prowling strips across America, but few of them have actual Pontiac power. Nope, most of them are just a Pontiac body holding a Chevy motor. Not this...
eBay Find: A Historic Chopped Willys Gasser
Apr 06, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
If there’s one thing cooler than a Willys gasser, it’s a chopped roof Willys Gasser! We got tipped off to the sale of the Shinholster and Lehman 1941 Willys, which is currently for sale...
