The 20th Orange Plaza Car Show – More SoCal Coolness – Muscle, Sporty Cars, Hot Rods
Apr 15, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery
We’re back with a second collection of photos from the 20th Orange Plaza car show, which bought our some of the nicest iron in all of California’s famed Orange County into one place to...
This 1956 Powell Pickup Truck Is Insanely Rare And Built Off Of A 1941 Plymouth – Buy It!
Apr 15, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
We got tipped off to this Craigslist ad by our pal Brady who saw it an immediately forwarded it on to us like a good BangShifter would. See, when people see weird stuff on the internet, we have kind...
This Video Of A Massive, Pre-Hydraulic LeTourneau Front End Loader Is Yellow Poetry In Motion
Apr 15, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Spotlight, XL Videos
As I have established over the last five years here at BangShift, I love old machines that completed huge tasks without the technology of today. Decades back, the work still had to get done and the...
VIDEO: It’s the Mods vs. the Rockers in this awesome clip from Great Britain
Apr 14, 2014Craig FitzgeraldBangShift News
We’re barely aware of the tension between two rival gangs of hoodlums in Great Britain in 1964, but it made for some awesome footage, and inspired a whole lot of cool music over the years. This...
SoCal Media Challenge At The Frank Hawley Drag Racing School – BS Contributor Takes It All!
Apr 14, 2014Darr Hawthorne1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
NewsStand and Online editors and contributors meet for supremacy on the Fontana quarter-mile. Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne In early April, a bunch of cocky media-types, both male...
This Turbocharged Small Block Powered Ferrari 250 GTO Goes 8s, Drives To Track, Rules All (Video)
Apr 14, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The Ferrari 250 GTO is one of the world’s most famous, beautiful, and expensive cars. Real ones sell for between 20-30 million dollars at auction and at private sales between captains of...
Strip Visit: Cool Cars And Trucks At Mooresville Dragway’s Test And Tune Night With A Bonus Gasser!
Apr 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News, Bangshift Spotlight
Know what a drag racing announcer does the day before he goes to the drag races? He goes to the drag races, ya big dummy! Continuing to share some of my adventure with Eric Yost and the guys, the...
Strip Visit: Cool Cars And Trucks At Mooresville Dragway’s Test And Tune Night With A Bonus Gasser!
Apr 14, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag Racing Feature, 1320 Gallery, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320
Know what a drag racing announcer does the day before he goes to the drag races? He goes to the drag races, ya big dummy! Continuing to share some of my adventure with Eric Yost and the guys, the...
We Found One Of The Original 1980s Racing Big Rigs In North Carolina – It Still Runs!
Apr 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Truck Feature, XL Truck News
So I was in North Carolina over the weekend to announce at the NHRA Four Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway. I got to town a day early to hang out with Eric Yost of Drag Week and Big Gun Customs fame....
Celebrate The 10th Anniversary Of The Ford GT With This Awesome Video From CrankAndPiston.com!
Apr 14, 2014Dave NuttingApex Video, BangShift APEX
April 17th is the Ford Mustang’s 50th birthday, but I’d like to take a few minutes to enjoy the 10th birthday of the pony car’s younger sibling, the Ford GT, courtesy of this video...
Craigslist Find: This Is The Most Oddly Modified 1972 Chevy Pickup Truck Ever
Apr 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
Up until Adam Wiskow sent us a link to the 1972 Chevy truck below we thought that it was impossible to screw up modifying a 1967-1972 Chevy truck. Really, we have seen hundreds and hundreds of them...
The 2014 Pigeon Forge Rod Run Was Awesome And We Were There!
Apr 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It’s the time of year that Tommy Lee Byrd hits it hard, and he pulled a triple-header this weekend in Tennessee. Part one of the triple-header was the...
Missouri to begin placing Former Military “Sound Cannons” In Work Zones To Slow Speeders
Apr 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News
(By Bryan McTaggart) – In a move that seems less like a public safety move and more like something Wile E. Coyote would try, the state of Missouri, in it’s infinite wisdom, has decided to use...
