This Little Kid’s Reaction To Drifting Around In A Car With His Dad Is Flipping Awesome
Feb 15, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
What you see in the lead photos is the face of unbridled joy and happiness. What you see in the lead photo is the birth of a gearhead. What you see in the lead photo is a moment lots of us...
Electro-Freak Show: This 1979 Citivan Electric Car Could Be Yours!
Feb 15, 2014Brian LohnesCraigslist Find
We know you you’re thinking and yes, this amazing machine could be yours and the owner would even trade you some junky muscle car for it! Got a Chevelle or maybe a Charger that you just...
Fantastic Video Of Ab Jenkins Hauling Ass For 24 Hours Straight (By Himself) At Bonneville In 1932
Feb 15, 2014Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
We’ve all pushed our own limits, driven through the night, seen things that weren’t really there due to exhaustion and maybe even nodded off at the wheel. Chances are, we did it in a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Did You Take Driver’s Ed In?
Feb 15, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
A conversation with our own Craig Fitzgerald led to this question of the day. He gave me a smart ass answer to a question I asked him and that answer involved the words Dodge Omni. Like someone...
Ford Fans Rejoice! A Blown Coyote Super Stocker To Kill ‘Em All Is Being Built In Michigan Right Now!
Feb 15, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
(By Bret Kepner) – One year ago, Watson Racing teamed with veteran Chris Holbrook to produce the quickest and fastest production car in drag racing history. In the team’s first event,...
This 1978 Kenworth Big Rig Has Marmon Herrington AWD And You Car Buy It Off Of Craigslist
Feb 15, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
(By Greg Rourke) – Marmon Herrington was an offshoot of the Marmon Motor Car Company, builder of the winning entry in the first Indy 500. Walter Marmon later teamed up with Arthur...
Open House At Auto Club Dragway Fontana TOMORROW! No Racing But Lots Of Fun Planned
Feb 14, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Drag racing’s feel good story of the winter has been the progress at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, California to complete a sound wall project and re-open as the only quarter mile strip in the...
THE PARTING SHIFT: IN CAR FOOTAGE OF A 1963 LIGHTWEIGHT 427 GALAXIE ROAD RACER FROM DOWN UNDER!
Feb 14, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
This is one of the coolest videos we have found in a while. Normally when one thinks of lightweight 1963 Ford Galaxies powered by 600hp 427 engines the drag strip is involved. That is not the case...
A Leaf Blower Supercharger A Decade Before Finnegan and Freiburger Made It Famous
Feb 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News
I ran these photos on BangShift years ago, back when the site was read by two people….Chad and I. For whatever reason, I was struck with inspiration to bring them back out and tell the story of...
The Bottom Dollar Blazer Project: Resurrecting a Yankee K5 Blazer From The Creeping Death
Feb 14, 2014Craig FitzgeraldBangShift XL, XL Drivetrain Tech, XL Suspension Tech
I have always loved the K5 Blazer, but I have two problems: (1) 99.9 percent of the K5s available have been treated to hockey puck lift kits and chrome directional wheels. (2) I’m cheap, and...
Thinking About Installing A Hydraulic Clutch? Let American Powertrain Show You How To Set Up The Throw Out Bearing In This Video
Feb 14, 2014Brian LohnesSponsor News
There are lots of benefits to adding a hydraulic clutch setup to your hot rod. Less pedal effort, smoother actuation, and lots more room for headers and other components that tend to run into...
Neat Video: Watch Steel And Carbon Fiber Driveshafts Get Tested To Their Failure Points
Feb 14, 2014Brian LohnesTECH, Videos
We got tipped off to this video by BangShift reader John Dozeman and we thought it was pretty neat. The footage is a clip from a BBC show about the technology involved with Formula One cars. In this...
In Torque We Trust: Petrolicious Spends Some Quality Time With A 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S
Feb 14, 2014Dave NuttingApex Video, BangShift APEX
If there’s one thing that I love watching on youTube, it’s spring break videos automotive videos with high production value: Car reviews from Top Gear UK, the Ken Block Gymkhana series,...
ChumpCar Race Report With Gallery: Frozen Peaches And Ice Cream At Road Atlanta
Feb 14, 2014Brian LohnesApex Chump Car Series News, BangShift APEX
(Words by Charlene Felton – Photos by John Babinski) – The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com) is the home of “Real Racing, Real Tracks®.” It’s competitive,...
