KNOLL TRIAL SLATED TO BEGIN ON FEB 14 — WILL THERE BE A PLEA?
Dec 24, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
The countdown begins. The start date for Evan Knoll’s trial is set for February 14. There is another pre-trial meeting scheduled on January 31 which we are going to monitor with eagle eyes...
TURBONIQUE! INCREDIBLE COLLECTION OF TURBONIQUE PARTS FOR SALE ON HEMMINGS SITE!
Dec 24, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Forgive the hysterical title, but we were just tipped off to the gearhead equivalent of catching Elvis screwing a unicorn. There’s a guy on the Hemmings website curretly selling what appears to...
TEXAS CHURCH PARKING LOT SOUNDS LIKE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN AMERICA
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
A San Antonio, Texas church parking lot sounds like the wildest illegal gearhead destination in the USA. The Grace Point Church has a massive parking lot. That’s great for getting worshipers in...
BANGSHIFT SAYS THANK YOU TO OUR AWESOME PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
One of the things I personally think is cool about BangShift is that you never really know what’s coming next. On any given day we could be showing you bitchin’ drag racing in...
An Awesome Look Inside MSD Headquarters and Manufacturing in El Paso, Texas
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesMISC, Sponsor News, TECH, Videos
It is always cool to peek behind the curtain of a company like MSD to see where the parts that so many of us use on our stuff get made. MSD is based in El Paso, Texas and that’s where this...
SHOCKER: KURT BUSCH SIGNS WITH PHOENIX RACING FOR 2012 – PLANS TO HAVE FUN RACING WITH SMALL TEAM
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
I almost did the proverbial spit take when I read that Kurt Busch had decided to sign on with James Finch’s Phoenix Racing for the 2012 season. I would have bet the family claim on Busch...
DYNO VIDEO: A 598CI, 1014HP FORD BIG BLOCK!
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
Bill Fowler is an OG BangShifter and the owner of a very mean Mustang. Bill’s car is an interesting study as he regularly drag races it, auto crosses it, and cruises it on the street. It is a...
EBAY FIND: AN ORIGINAL 1928 FORD RACE CAR WITH A NEAT FRONTENAC CYLINDER HEAD CONVERSION
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohneseBay Find
Old race cars are fascinating objects. By modern standards, this thing is slightly less evolved than your garden tractor, but in 1928 this racer may as well have been the bleeding edge of...
MILESTONE: FORD SELLS 100,000 ECOBOOST V6 POWERED TRUCKS IN 2011
Dec 23, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
It sure seems like Ford’s gamble on the twin turbo, V6 EcoBoost engine has paid off. The company crossed a major milestone yesterday with the installation of the 100,000th example of the engine...
Insane Wreckage: Car Sawed In Half By Palm Tree In High Speed Aussie Wreck
Dec 21, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
We were tipped off to an incredible and sad story from the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. Two men were killed when their Holden Commodore struck a palm tree at what must have been an incredible...
Cool Old Video: AJ Foyt And Ray Harroun Apppear On A 1961 Game Show Together
Dec 21, 2011Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
It is a brutally slow news week around here but luckily while trolling the interwebs, we found a really cool video of 1961 Indy 500 winner AJ Foyt and 1911 Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun appearing on...
Government To Mustang Owners: You Are The Problem, Not The Transmission
Dec 21, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has been investigating issues with 2011 and 2012 Ford Mustangs equipped with manual transmissions. We’re not sure what got the...
What Is The Dumbest Automotive Related Thing You Have Ever Done?
Dec 21, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
Paying about a million bucks for some old coveralls, crashing a Lamborghini you just won, buying an awful shitbox of a car, getting stuck without help, etc. These are but a few of the stupid things...
Truck Driver Wins Lamborghini – Wrecks Car Hours Later
Dec 21, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
I’m burning the midnight oil here at BS East HQ because the news hotline keeps melting down with people doing dumb things. Guys buying old laundry for a million bucks, truck drivers crashing...
