Craigslist Find: A 1968 Lola T-160 Can Am Racer That We Want To Own
Oct 13, 2014Chad ReynoldsApex Online Find, Apex Spotlight
When my buddy Dannie Pinard sent me this Craigslist item, he also sent it with some note about being a TV star now and that I should be able to buy this thing. I WISH!!! This 1968 Lola T-160 is...
Australian V8 Supercars Video: Crashing At Bathurst Is Nothing New, But In Practice?!
Oct 13, 2014Chad ReynoldsApex Spotlight, Apex Video
Our buddy Sean, a huge Australian V8 Supercars fan, sent us the link to this cool video from Bathurst where Lowndes and Luff came together during practice of all things. As if Bathurst wasn’t a...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Dear Monday….
Oct 13, 2014Bryan McTaggartUPCG
Dear Monday, I know we have fought over the years, and I know we haven’t really been friends since about first grade, when your arrival meant five days away from Saturday Morning Cartoons and...
Audi Is Going To Let An RS7 Lap The Hockenheimring…Without A Driver, At Speed
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
In another move that signals the oncoming driverless car, Audi is preparing to let a fully autonomous RS7 take a lap of the Hockenheimring race course at full speed on October 19, 2014, in...
Photo Tour: Stacey David’s Rattletrap Productions’ Open House-A Car Show, Shop Tour And Much More In One Place!
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Saturday afternoon was a drizzly, messy, and cool day that bore more resemblance to Seattle than it did to what is the normal here at BangShift Midwest. It was that kind of drizzle that makes...
City of Waldo, Florida Dissolves Police Force Over Ticket Quotas, Breaking Up One Of The Biggest Speed Traps Ever
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Heh, whoopsie. The city council of Waldo, Florida just dissolved the police force after the police chief and interim chief resigned over allegations of ticket quotas being used as a revenue tool. How...
691 Horsepower And Zero Emissions: Tesla Unveils The Twin-Motor, AWD Model S P85D
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, OTHER
Last week Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed Twitter users that he was going to “unveil the D”, setting off the Internet on the speculation about Elon’s new “D” and the...
Unhinged: When The “Good Idea” Lightbulb Should Be Ignored
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, Unhinged
Our friend Craig Fitzgerald over at BestRide.com tipped us off to the story of a woman who lit a candle inside of her car, parked in front of a gas station pump and went inside, only to come outside...
Rough Start: This 1965 Plymouth Fury Would Make For A Clean Driver, And Would You Believe It’s In Fargo?
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
Blame this one on a late-night viewing of the movie Fargo. Now that I have that accent stuck in my head I have been trying any and every possible trick to get it out of there, but with everybody...
Someone’s Gonna Get Fired! Four New Chevrolet Trucks Involved In A Four-Car Wreck On The Way To An Unveiling
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Truck News
I don’t think “my bad” is gonna cover this one. Chevrolet recently invited dealers to come to the Wentzville, Missouri assembly plant so that they could take one of the first 65...
Volvo Working To Create Vehicle System That Allows The Car To Avoid An Accident For You
Oct 12, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks (which are two separate companies, with Cars owned by Geely) has been very open to the idea that humans should not be driving vehicles. As part of their...
Someone In Florida Built A Horrible Looking Diamond Plate Body On A Postal Jeep And Wants $76,000 For It
Oct 11, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
AJ Cortes is the guy that we need to point the blame at for finding this creation on Craigslist somewhere in Florida. Look, the seller wants $76,000 for what you see here which is basically an old...
Wild Photos: Altered Wheelbase Wheelstand Sequences From The 2013 California Hot Rod Reunion
Oct 11, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
We’re getting pumped up for our LIVE streaming broadcast of the 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion from Bakersfield, California next weekend. To get you all up on the chip we decided to grab some...
This Street Legal 1995 Olds Cutlass RWD Conversion Is Pretty Neat In A Freaky Way – Nice Fabrication Work
Oct 11, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
As we have often explained here on BangShift, there is good weird and there is bad weird. We’d consider this 1995 Olds Cutlass the good kind of weird because it was a long term project that...
