Craigslist Find: A 1979 Olds Cutlass That Bridges The Gap Between Trar And Donk – Not That It’s A Good Thing
Feb 22, 2013Brian LohneseBay Find
For so long we’ve seen trars and donks exist on slightly different planes. Now a brave individual has decided to bridge the seemingly impossible gap between a trar and a donk with this 1979...
Video: Are You Faster Than A Redneck Premiers TONIGHT! 7PM Pacific/10PM Eastern On SPEED!! Tune IN!
Feb 22, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Tonight at 10PM Eastern the new SPEED channel series, “Are You Faster Than A Redneck?” premiers and we’ll be watching. You should tune in as well. We’ve seen a preview of the...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Swap Would Be The Ultimate Sacrilege?
Feb 22, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift Question Of The Day??
Last night on PowerShift LIVE, Brian and I discussed some crazy engine swaps and was was wrong and/or right about them. Swaps like the 426 Max Wedge Engine that was found in the Barn Find ’57...
NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Returns To ESPN2 For 2013
Feb 22, 2013Chad ReynoldsSponsor News
The NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, aka NHRA Sportsman Drag Racing, will once again be televised on ESPN2 this year. Featuring NHRA Top Alcohol Dragsters and Funny Cars, along with highlights from...
Turbo-Gasm: A Vintage Mustang Fastback: Small Tires, A Big Damn Turbo – Sexy Fabrication!
Feb 22, 2013Brian LohnesCar Features, FORD
I stopped by Tube Chassis Designz yesterday to annoy and derail the productivity of my buddy Jon Sandahl and to check on the progress with the Fat Lane t-bolt build that we’ve been following....
Video: A Hairy Big Block Powered 1976 Chevelle Hangs The Tail And Smokes The Tires On The Edge Of The Arctic Circle
Feb 22, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
BangShifter Arild Guldbrandsen hails from Norway and he’s had the same 1976 Chevelle for going on 20 years now. Over the time he has had the car, Arild has installed any number of engine combos...
Dead Drag Strip File: The Mysterious And Overgrown Footprint Of Milton Speedway – Milton, Vermont
Feb 22, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
So I am a little bit of an obsessive guy. As soon as Greg Rourke’s story on the long lost Seneca Drag Strip ran I immediately went into dead New England dragstrip mode. Yesterday I told you...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Girls In Love – Loverboy (1983)
Feb 22, 2013Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
BangShift reader Vinni DeLuca tipped us off to this video starring a hot rod Ford coupe and a dreamy blonde, oh and the guys from Loverboy as well. Their 1983 tune Hot Girls In Love was a hit for the...
LIVE TONIGHT: PowerShift With Chad and Brian – Our WEEKLY Live Show Is BACK! 9PM Easterm – 6PM Pacific!
Feb 21, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
After a one week break to handle some off-air stuff, we’re back and better than ever with a fresh new episode of PowerShift our weekly romp through the worlds of racing, motorsports,...
Wreckage Video: A Flat Track Motorcycle Crash That Sends Riders Flying And Snaps A Bike In Two
Feb 21, 2013Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
First off, everyone involved in this awful crash is OK and has since returned to racing. We lead with that because when you see this clip from the Lucas Oil flat track motorcycle race on the famed...
eBay Find: An Absolutely Perfect 1955 Studebaker Three Quarter Ton Pickup – Neat As Hell!
Feb 21, 2013Brian LohneseBay Find
Studebaker trucks don’t get the due that they deserve. The trucks were well styled, powered by strong, reliable engines, and were built as tough as any other truck line in the country. From...
NOS Releases Dry Pro Race Fogger Systems For EFI Equipped Engines
Feb 21, 2013Brian LohnesSponsor News
Nitrous has been hot rodding’s best friend for a long, long time and as the hot rods have advanced and evolved so have the nitrous systems that feed that horsepower making gas into their guts....
Hellacious Burnout Video: A Tire Smoldering 330-Foot Smoker From Tony Boss Bynes
Feb 21, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
There was a time when showmanship was a very large part of the deal in drag racing. From paint to wild crew uniforms, to back up girls with all kinds of appendages hanging out in the breeze, and...
Cool Or Creepy: Retro Body Kits For Chevy Trucks
Feb 21, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – Ok, so as of late I have been pretty harsh about body kits and that type of stuff. Probably too harsh, but that’s over now. Greg Rourke sent in a couple of...
