Settle This Debate: Was The 1964 Pontiac GTO The First Muscle Car? It Has Been Raging For 50 Years!
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
It sucks that Pontiac is dead and buried because if they were still alive this would have been a rocking year for the brand. Hell, you have seen how far Ford has taken the 50th anniversary of the...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The AMF Sur-Trek
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Off Road Feature, XL Videos
This week’s Motorized Freak is a slick little 8×8 amphibious vehicle produced by AMF in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. It would make one bitchin’ pit vehicle at the dragstrip. We...
New Product Action From QuickTrick: The RV4WD System Has Your Hauler, RV, and 4×4 Needs Covered – Never Pay For An Alignment Again
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesSponsor News
Let’s be honest. When we think about alignment equipment, we all kind of default to stuff that you would use to setup a race car or competition vehicle that is designed to burn corners....
Watching And Hearing A Real 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO Hammered On Amazing Roads Will Make Your Day – New Petrolicious Video Rules
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
We often show you the latest and greatest videos posted on the Petrolicious YouTube channel because frankly they are typically awesome. From muscle cars to vintage stuff, and to today’s feature...
Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show And Drag Interview Videos With Gene Winfield, Ed Iskenderian, And Chico
May 14, 2014Chad ReynoldsHISTORIC
Last weekend’s Mooneyes Mother’s Day Show and Drag was awesome. It’s a great show, with great people, great food, great vendors, and great cars. You just can’t go wrong...
Stop Complaining About The Name Of The 2015 Mustang EcoBoost….Seriously, Stop
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Among the more insufferable things that the internet likes to do is to become indignant about dumb issues and then champion them as some sort of lame ass cause. Take for example the recent discovery...
Burnout Video: Watch Kurt Johnson Break In A Set Of Slicks In A Naked Chassis Former Pro Stocker
May 14, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
One of the things that few people understand about the world of professional drag racing and pro stock specifically is that the work during racing season is on a 24/7 cycle. This isn’t a deal...
This 1951 Federal House Truck Is The Most BangShift Approved Home On Wheels We’ve Ever Seen
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Federal house truck? First off, we don’t mean liked Federal Government because if they built it, the tires would be flat, the roof would be caved in, and…Ok, I’m stopping there. The...
Craigslist Find: The Most Unintentionally Comedic Listing Ever (Not Even Including the 1973 MG Rat Rod)
May 14, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
Powermaster’s Brady Basner has the hot hand on Craigslist. I don’t know how he does it but the man is able to find gems left, right, and center each week on the world’s biggest yard...
Tuscon Rodders Days 2014: A Celebration Of American Iron On The Streets Of Tuscon – Tons Of Photos!
May 14, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Words and photos by Jace Ray) – E = R…..famous racers motto….Effort equals Results. Tucson Street Rod Association definitely put out major effort for their 40th Anniversary Rodders Days...
’58 Ford Retractable goes up in flames north of Boston, and the owner’s blaming corn-based fuel
May 13, 2014Craig FitzgeraldBangShift News, CRASH & BURN
Over the weekend, the indispensable Boston news site Universal Hub posted this photo of a 1958 Ford Retractable engulfed in flame on Rt. 93 in Stoneham, 20 minutes north of the city. The owner...
Top Fuel Motorcycle Racing Legend Russ Collins Has Died: Multi-Engine Nitro Bikes, World Record Setter, Innovator
May 13, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Russ Collins, the great Top Fuel Motorcycle racer, sometimes Top Fuel Dragster racer and survivor of a couple horrendous wrecks during his long and storied career, has died. Collins was a great...
Watch Craig Breedlove Tell His Story Of 1960s Land Speed Heroism In This Great Video – Great Emotion And Tons Of Old Footage
May 13, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
In many ways, Craig Breedlove was the ultimate California hot rod kid of his era. Who else was able to dream up and actually see through a futuristic looking, thrust driven monster of a car that was...
This video recreates all the locations from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
May 13, 2014Craig FitzgeraldBangShift News, CAR FEATURES, FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos
When I was a kid, WLVI-TV 56 in Boston used to run It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World the Friday after Thanksgiving every year. I’ve probably watched it 40 times since. For a kid staring...
