Chevrolet Issues “Stop Sales” Orders For C7 Corvette
Sep 13, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CHEVY
This wasn’t what Chevrolet needed. GM put out two separate “stop sales” orders on C7 Corvettes to fix two issues that popped up. The first one is for an improperly-installed...
If You’re Into Car-Sharing And Live In Toronto, You Might Get A Lift In Deadmau5’s McLaren
Sep 13, 2014Bryan McTaggartMISC, Videos
I do find it odd that once again I’m reporting on electronic artist Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmerman) and his car for a second time on BangShift, but after seeing this, I couldn’t pass it up....
Define “Missed Opportunity”: The 1999 Chrysler Howler
Sep 13, 2014Bryan McTaggartCar Features, MOPAR
The Plymouth Prowler gets a bad rap from the hot rodding community, and other than the knock for using the V6 from the Dodge Intrepid hooked to an automatic, I don’t agree. Plymouth was in the...
PDRA DragStock From Rockingham Dragway – Action Photos Of The Hairiest Doorslammers On The Planet
Sep 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos and words by Benoit Pigeon) – The 7th out of 8 PDRA events, Dragstock XI, saw a lot of action but the original race day was cancelled due to rain. First round of eliminations was...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: Bud’s Salvage – Aline, Oklahoma — A Dreamscape Of Iron We Want To Save
Sep 12, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift News
First, a little inside baseball. The way my daily routine works at Drag Week is as follows. Wake up early and post stuff on the site, meet in the lobby of the hotel, head to the track with Freiburger...
Watch The Most Dramatic Moment In Drag Week History – The Beyond All Thrash That Got Larson To The Line, But Not The Result He Wanted
Sep 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Ultimately Chad will tell the whole tale of his 2014 Drag Week with Larry Larson. He’ll give you the details on how they got about an hour’s sleep total in three days, how they nearly...
Drag Week 2014: Action And Pit Photos From Thunder Valley Raceway In Noble, Oklahoma
Sep 12, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – It has been an insane week, so insane that I am working on a combined total of about eight hours of sleep since Monday. I’m not sure where I am or who I am...
Ebay Find: Will This Super-Clean Ford Granada Win McTaggart Over?
Sep 12, 2014Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
Lots of automotive biases are known here on these pages. Lohnes hates four-seater Thunderbirds of any year and DeLoreans and I hate Ford Granadas and their corporate cousins, the Mercury Monarch and...
Rough Start, Drag Week Edition: Nothing Brings Happiness Quite Like The Words “V8 Swap”
Sep 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
The second I laid eyes on this Isuzu P’up I started giggling like an idiot. Light truck, Ford 302, C6…yes, this is the stuff of dreams when it comes to a Craigslist find, and for Drag...
Watch Chris Harris Hoon A New Z/28 Around A Wet Track Just Because
Sep 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Chris Harris from /drive is currently one of my favorite presenters doing the automotive gig right now. Think of him as a shorter, less offensive and more brown version of Jeremy Clarkson: he’s...
Check Out The Trailer For Forza Horizon 2: All In-Game Footage And It Looks Spectacular
Sep 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, MISC, Videos
Winter is coming, and it’s supposed to be a nasty one this year. Rain, snow, ice and cold temperatures do not make for happy BangShifters (excepting our Nordic friends, who don’t seem to...
Forgotten Concept: 1981 Ford-McLaren Mustang M81
Sep 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartCar Features, FORD
1981, the year that could be considered one of, if not the weakest and lowest year for automotive fun. The GM mid sizes were wheezing forms of their former selves. The F-car twins and the Corvette...
Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: This 1957 Chevy 1-Ton Wearing An Old Camper Is Perfection
Sep 11, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Truck Feature
Here’s a sweet roadside find from the road on Drag Week 2014 that we ran into yesterday at a route checkpoint. The truck was kind of hidden in the back but once my wandering eye caught it, I...
Unhinged: Did The Factory Skunkworks Teams Go Away?
Sep 11, 2014Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
At the ripe old age of thirty-one (stop laughing), I grew up just as Detroit was waking up from the coma the EPA induced using a baseball bat in the early Seventies. 5.0 Mustangs and IROC Camaros...
