Photo and Joke Update: Sinkhole Opens Up Inside National Corvette Museum – Swallows 8 Cars
Feb 12, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News
CLICK HERE FOR THE JUST RELEASED VIDEO OF THE CARS FALLING THROUGH THE FLOOR Multiple sources are reporting that a large sinkhole has opened up inside the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green...
Bitchin’ Historic Drag Racing Photos From The Golden Age Of Action At Sanford, Maine
Feb 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries
(Photos from Sy Sidebotham Collection Via Bruce Wheeler) – (Editor’s note: Yesterday we ran an old drag racing movie from Sanford, Maine that was shot in the late 1950s. After seeing...
Mission Impossible: Nutting Picks Eleven Of The Best And Worst General Motors G-bodies
Feb 12, 2014Dave NuttingTop 11
Last night Brian called me up and we had the following conversation: Brian: “Nutting, it’s the middle of the week and your last two blog items have been weak sauce, so I’ve got a challenge...
Gearhead Magazine: The Best Thing About the 1990s
Feb 12, 2014Craig FitzgeraldBangShift News
I was digging through my record shelf the other day and was kind of surprised to find that I had a relatively complete collection of split singles that all came from the same place: Gearhead...
Effing Awesome Fail Video: A Massive Truck Tug of War Goes Very Very Wrong
Feb 12, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Forgive us as we try to reconstruct the events leading up to this momentous video. There were cans, nay, gallons of Keystone beer chugged. There were minutes of angry Ford versus Chevy rumblings and...
Done: Toyota To Cease Manufacturing In Australia Come 2017 – Will Officially End Australia’s Auto Industry
Feb 12, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News
For a country as obsessed with cars and hot rods as Australia is, it seems unfathomable that no new ones will be made there when 2017 rolls around, but that is the reality the country faces now...
Watch This Front Wheel Drive Drag Car Suffer A Catastrophic Tire Failure On The Dyno!
Feb 12, 2014Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
We love chassis dynos but we also fear them to some degree. Obviously we have run our projects on the dyno with varying levels of success, some destruction, and the constant thought in the back of...
Barnstormin’: The Culture Of “Everything Sucks”
Feb 12, 2014Brian LohnesBarnstormin'
I try to be a positive guy. Whether it is people, cars, sports, politics, or whatever, I tend not to go straight to the negative angle of stuff. Yes, I enjoy breaking the chops of weird or ugly cars...
V8 Symphony: The Sounds Of Thundering Power At A Swiss Hill Climb Will Make Your Day
Feb 12, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
This video was literal music to our ears so we wanted to share it with you. The video was shot at a hill climb event in Switzerland and it concentrates on some of the sweet V8 powered cars that...
Epic Hacks: Reddit’s “Just Rolled in the Shop” Subreddit Will Give you Nightmares
Feb 11, 2014Craig FitzgeraldOTHER, Tech Stories
Reddit has a million “subreddits” on everything from trees to male fashion advice. Our favorite is “Just Rolled in the Shop,” a collection of photos from mechanics all over...
Project Violent Valiant Update: The Valiant’s Face Gets Chopped Off And Cage Building Continues
Feb 11, 2014Brian LohnesMOPAR, Project Cars
Project Violent Valiant is soldiering along at Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle these days despite the crushing forces of winter trying to freeze half of the country to death. Kevin Tully is keeping warm by...
eBay Find: The Most Second Gen, 2nd Gen Camaro In The World
Feb 11, 2014Brian LohneseBay Find
There was a time when this Camaro ruled the streets of whatever city or town it was built in. Ok, maybe that’s not true because it doesn’t appear that the car was ever driven all that...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Music Do You Listen To When Wrenching On Your Vehicles?
Feb 11, 2014Dave NuttingBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
Driving home today, I realized that the majority of my day’s activities involves listening to music, whether it’s on the commute to and from work, slogging through some debugging and...
2014 NHRA Winternationals – Photos From The Explosive Opening Weekend Of The 2014 NHRA Season
Feb 11, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Mike and Jeff Burghardt) – Love him or hate him, 16-time nitro funny car Champion John Force isn’t going anywhere, except down the dragstrip, 1,000...
