More Charges Levied Against Jeremy Mayfield
Feb 21, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
The hits just keep on coming for Jeremy Mayfield. He has now been charged with possession of stolen property and a fourth count of obtaining property by false pretense. These charges are in...
Wild Barn Find: One of the Only Tucker Car Engines Left in the World
Feb 21, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
We all know the basic story of the Tucker car company, right? They produced 51 cars in 1948 before folding up and liquidating. The cars happened to be miles ahead of anything else on the road during...
Watch a Driver Lose the Handle on His Late Model GTO and Wipe Out Two Motorcycles
Feb 21, 2012Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
There’s not a BangShifter among us who has not lost the handle on their car at least once. Maybe it was on a snowy road, a wet highway, or on a race track where you dipped a toe over that fine...
Watch Mike Maier Horse Wrangle His Awesome Mustang Around the Road Course at the 2011 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Earlier today we showed you some crazy video of Bill Maier wrecking in spectacular fashion during a 1982 Trans Am event at Laguna Seca Raceway in California. As it turns out, those racing genes were...
BangShift Question of the Day: What is Your Favorite Automotive Stance?
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
A car or truck’s stance is the first major thing that anyone notices. How does it sit? What kind of attitude does it emit? From being slammed down into the weeds to riding like a monster truck,...
Watch Bill Maier’s Trans-Am Mustang Get Destroyed at Leguna Seca in 1982!
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Despite the fact that we always seem to concentrate on Trans Am racing from the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was great racing for many years past that era. This video, shot at Leguna Seca in...
Mini-Feature: An Upclose Look at Mike Piraino’s Wild Twin Turbo Super Comp/Top Dragster Rail! [w/dyno video]
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohnesCar Features, CHEVY, OTHER
When Chad called me breathlessly from the pits a Pomona during the NHRA Winternationals, I figured he had been chasing the ice cream truck…again. As it turns out, he was going ape over this...
Ridetech Announces Design Contest Winner and It is a Looker!
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News, Sponsor News
We’ve been keeping you up to date with Ridetech’s design contest and now it is time to unveil the winning scheme that the Ridetech guys will apply to the Factory Five ’33 Hot Rod...
BS Approved Video: Watch a Nitro Harley Get Built in a Home Shop
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Our pal Chuck Noble has been on the electronic pages of BangShift before. He’s the guy, we featured running a nitro motorcycle that had iron heads and carbs on it. Well, Chuck was using that...
Crazy eBay Find: A Twin Engine, Street Legal GMC S15 “Fire Truck” From ‘Bama
Feb 20, 2012Brian LohneseBay Find
For many people today is a holiday, but not here in the halls of BangShift. We’re always working hard to keep you abreast of the most important news in the automotive universe. Take this insane...
Irwindale Speedway Update: Property Owner Claims 20 Parties Have Contacted Him About Taking Over Track
Feb 17, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
Just as we were about to ditch the BangShift newsroom and start chugging beers tonight, we caught wind of a story that gives us more reason to be hopeful that the shuttering of Irwindale Speedway is...
Watch the First Episode of Roadkill – Freiburger and Finnegan’s New Show!
Feb 17, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos
By now we’re sure you’ve heard that David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine are going to have a monthly web tv show called Roadkill. The first episode went live today and...
Big News: Jiffy-Tite Joins the BangShift Family of Sponsors!
Feb 17, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News, Sponsor News
Chad and I are proud to announce that Jiffy-Tite, one of the premier fluid transfer fitting companies in the world, has joined the BangShift family of sponsors. Their quick connect fittings are found...
