Jan 03, 2013Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
Dave Edmunds’ 1979 ode to automobile wreckage didn’t make the charts in the United States, but it did manage to climb to the number 59 spot on the British charts that year. Some claim...
Jan 02, 2013Brian LohneseBay Find
Sweet mother of cone crushing, apex clipping, slaloming, coolness. This 1974 Vega is set up to rip, has a totally documented and cool racing history, a Cosworth engine that was run at Bonneville on...
Jan 02, 2013Chad ReynoldsSponsor News
So many of you BangShifters bought stuff from American Powertrain during their two end of the year sales in 2012 that they decided they might as well do another one. And you guys are the ones that...
Jan 02, 2013Brian LohnesGallery
(Photos by BS staff and contributors) – Boiling the bolognas, frying the hides, laying patch, doing a smoke show, etc. The practice of roiling your rear tires goes by many different names and...
Jan 02, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
BS reader Brian Earp recently sent us an email with a photo of his truck and thought it would be fun to try to stump the rest of you out there in reader land as to what in the hell it is. He gave us...
Jan 02, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Brian texted me just before Christmas to send in some of my favorite pics that I took over the last year, I was a bit worried because I didn’t...
Jan 02, 2013Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
Life was pretty darned good for The Playmates in 1958. The group has just signed on to Roulette records, cracked into the Top 40 with two tunes off of their first album. Adding to that was the...
Jan 02, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Cordova Dragway Park in Cordova, Illinois again hosted the Hangover Nationals. Held on New Years Day for the past 14 years, they plow snow off the track,...
Jan 01, 2013Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
We’ll admit right off the bat that we have beaten down a U-Haul truck or two in our day. We got a V10 powered model high sided on a pile of tires one time. It’s kind of a long story, but...
Jan 01, 2013Brian LohnesCar Features, MOPAR
(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – Bangshift contributing photographer Dave Nutting here to share an infamous time capsule of Mopar history that Brian Lohnes and I stumbled upon while working...
Jan 01, 2013Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION
If you are like me and don’t give a damn about all the football games going on today, then here is something that will make your day go much, much better. Les Mayhew has put together another...
Jan 01, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
We got started late this morning because we figured that most of you would be sleeping one off after last night, but we just wanted to give one more shout out here on Day One of the Best Year In...
