POWERSHIFT LIVE TONIGHT: Tune Into BangShift’s Weekly Live Show With Chad And Brian – There’s Beer And Yelling! 6PM Pacific/ 9PM Eastern
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
Well there isn’t ALWAYS yelling but there is always beer so it wasn’t completely false advertising in the headline. This week on our world famous live show PowerShift we’ll talk...
25 Killer Wheelstand Photos from the 2012 March Meet
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, BangShift News, Drag Races
Everyone loves a good wheelie and there were not in short supply during our coverage of the 2012 March Meet. Out of the hundreds of photos we shot and posted, we culled a quick 25 images of cars...
NASCAR Driver Indefinitely Suspended For Mystery Comment Made During Interview That Was Never Published
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
Lots of NASCAR drivers have gotten heat, financial fines, or even suspensions for speaking their mind against the almighty authority of their sanctioning body. It seems that Jeremy Clements who is a...
Watch The Real Chrisman’s Comet Make A Run At Oxford Plains Dragway – Blown Ford Cammer On NITRO!
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
One of the coolest cars in drag racing history not only still exists, it still thunders just like it did when it blew crowds back into their seats at the 1964 NHRA Nationals with a half track...
The Smallest Project We’ve Ever Covered: Here’s The Mini-Max – A Scale Model With A Twist
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesOTHER, Project Cars
Readers of BangShift know the name Mike Casella from his awesome work at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Mike is the guy who makes stuff from scratch and saves unobtanium parts...
Watch A 1936 Chevy Pickup With A Turbocharged Chevy 292 Inline Six Make Nearly 900-HP At The Tire And Run 160-MPH At The Drags!
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesENGINES, RACING & ACTION, Videos
This is one hot little ’36! The classic Chevy pickup you see below is powered by one of the strongest Chevy inline six engines we’ve ever heard of. It is built to the hilt with a lot of...
Gallery: A Peek Inside DMC Racing At Paul Major’s Corvette And Tim Meagher’s Mustang
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Gallery, Shop Tours
Yesterday we showed you the awesome twin turbo Oldsmobile that the guys at DMC are updating and improving for its owner so he can really lay the lumber to it this Spring. That certainly isn’t...
Question Of The Day: What Would The Hot Rodding And Aftermarket World Look Like If The LS-Engine Never Came Out?
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
Kind of an interesting thought, right? The Pontiac guys are probably still boiling about the Trans Am we posted earlier, the Mustang guys see red when a Fox body has an LS in it and then there are...
Video: A Look At Year One’s Awesome Brewster Green McQ 1973 Trans Am – Twin Turbos, Baer Brakes And A Bunch More!
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesCAR FEATURES, Videos
The guys over at Year One have been cranking out gnarly projects for years and their latest, a 1973 Pontiac Trans Am that’s done as a sort of modern pro touring tribute to the car that John...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Passenger – Iggy Pop (1977)
Feb 28, 2013Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
Iggy Pop is one of rock and roll’s all-time road warriors. The dude has been touring like a mad man for decades and if we were guessing that’s what this tune is about, traveling over the...
HOT ROD MAGAZINE DRAG WEEK 2013 DATES CONFIRMED
Feb 27, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
Big news kids! Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 will be contested 9/8 -9/13 with a September 14 rain date if necessary. Hot Rod has not released the tracks for Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 yet, but...
Watch A Nova Fly Through And Then Off The Course At Last Weekend’s Run To The Coast Four!
Feb 27, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Last weekend at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California the American Street Car Series held their Run To The Coast 4 event. This is one of the premier pro touring gatherings in the...
Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?
Feb 27, 2013Brian LohnesCar Features, FORD
Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some...
Craigslist Find: A 100% Bitchin LS Swapped 1978 Chevy Bonanza Pickup Truck – SO SO GOOD!
Feb 27, 2013Brian LohneseBay Find
Lately our Craigslist finds have been strange contraption but this is a literally thing of beauty and it is priced right, too. We often joke about “if we had the money” but really, if we...
