Check Out Video of a Bitchin’ 1961 Ford Shop Truck – Striping and Stance Perfection
Jul 24, 2012Brian LohnesCAR FEATURES, Videos
Shop trucks have certainly become their own dedicated genre of the hobby over the last several years. Hell, half of the reason I bought the old C50 wrecker that’s currently in my stable is...
BangShift Slap Fight: Do Pro Street Cars Require Stupid Power to Be Cool Or is Mild OK? Brian and Chad Debate!
Jul 24, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
(Editor’s note: Welcome to Slap Fight! We’re going to try and make this a weekly part of the BangShift blog lineup. Long story short, this is a space where Chad and Brian take the gearhead...
The BangShift Spotter’s Guide to Bitchin’ Old Australian Muscle Cars and ‘Utes
Jul 24, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News, Gallery
(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – It is a minor coincidence that we’re heavy on content based in Oz today. We were tipped off to the cool old Aussie drag racing videos by an Australian reader...
Video Bonanza: Awesome 8mm Films of 1960s Australian Drag Racing – Bitchin’ Hot Rods and Drag Machines!
Jul 24, 2012Brian LohnesHISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
One of the things that I always love to learn about is the history of drag racing in places outside of the USA. The reason that it fascinates me is because while the sport itself was exported from...
Get Your Stop On: Baer Brakes New Catalog Makes Stopping Your Hot Rod Even Easier
Jul 24, 2012Chad ReynoldsSponsor News
Baer Brakes may be new to the BangShift family of sponsors but they are arguably the biggest name in performance braking and their newest catalog certainly reinforces why. If you thought that Baer...
eBay Find: A Super Clean and Totally Awesome 1974 Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty
Jul 24, 2012Brian LohneseBay Find
As the domestic high performance car was all but dead on the operating table after a gas crisis and draconian legislation in the early 1970s, one small glimmer of light managed to escape the clutches...
Evil Golf Cart Video: Sick N Twisted Designs Drag Race Electric Golf Cart
Jul 23, 2012Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION
Saturday night we went to Irwindale for a little test and tune session with our boys Bill Fowler and Scott Clark, and not only were we impressed with Bill’s 1000hp PUMP GAS, NATURALLY...
Question of the Day: Now We’ve Seen It All! Rent An Excavator For Fun? Would You Do It?
Jul 23, 2012Chad ReynoldsBangShift Question Of The Day??
I’m pretty sure this counts as a “Now I’ve seen everything” moment. I know that a lot of cool stuff comes up as Groupons, but this one takes the cake on weird. I guess the...
The Top 11: Greatest Wheelstanders
Jul 23, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
When Chad and I settled on making a list of the top 11 Wheelstanders we knew it was an impossible task and that we’d get roasted for leaving off some hella cool cars. We had a list of nearly 30...
Watch A Massive Buick Wheelstand Result In A Dead Buick (Driver OK) — Two Videos!
Jul 23, 2012Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
BangShift reader Nick Lingua sent us a tip on this video from last weekend’s “Night of Fire” at Cedar Falls Raceway in Iowa. The event is a totally bitchin’ match race that...
Caption this Photo: How the Hell Does This Happen…Seriously…How in the Hell Does This Happen?
Jul 23, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
Right off the bat we have to admit that we don’t know who shot this photo, where it was taken, or the scene that led up to this big rig having it’s front end torn off. We’ve never...
American Powertrain Hydramax Clutch Systems Now Available for Mustangs
Jul 20, 2012Chad ReynoldsBangShift News, Sponsor News
American Powertrain’s new Hydramax Clutch System is bad assed, and is now available for first-gen Ford Mustangs. This system, which is available for GM and Mopar vehicles as well, provides a...
Question of the Day: Are LS Engines Chevrolet, General Motors, or Generic?
Jul 20, 2012Chad ReynoldsBangShift Question Of The Day??
The longstanding battle between Ford, Chevy, Mopar,, or any other manufacturer you are getting pissed at me for not including, will always be there. And people will always freak out when you put a...
Ebay Find: A 1971 C50 Chevy Tow Truck That Will Give Brian Lumber and His Wife a Headache
Jul 20, 2012Chad ReynoldseBay Find
Brian is out of town announcing yet another race at New England Dragway this weekend so in honor of his absence I’m going to run a really cool Ebay find that he would die to own. Not that he...
