BFGoodrich Pushed Their New Off Road Tires (mounted to wheels) Out Of An Airplane At 10,000ft To See What Would Happen – This Is Pretty Awesome
Oct 08, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Before you launch into a “That’s CGI!” campaign, can it. You are wrong and we’ll prove it in the videos below. We thought for sure when we saw a film made by BFGoodrich that...
Shakedown At The Summit Action Gallery By DRD Photography – Awesome Photography Of Wild Doorslammers
Oct 08, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Dom Damato/DRD Photos) – Last weekend’s Shakedown at the Summit 2014 is still reverberating through the brains of drag racing fans the world over. There were monster runs...
Project Violent Valiant Update: The Final Systems Are Coming Together – Axle, Brakes, Dash, Exhaust, Interior
Oct 08, 2014Brian LohnesApex Project Cars, BangShift APEX, MOPAR, Project Cars
Right now as you read this, Project Violent Valiant’s body shell is in a paint booth getting the final bits of color applied before being returned to Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle next week for...
Travis Pastrana May Not Be Human – Watch Him Win This Dirt Bike Race And Then Pull A Backflip At The End Just Because
Oct 08, 2014Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
He’s leapt from airplanes with no parachute, jumped cars onto barges, crashed and survived harder than few others on Earth, raced NASCAR, and made millions along the way. All that said and...
Crane Cams Now Offers 10W-40 Non-Synthetic Break-In Oil For Flat Tappet Cams – Don’t Break In Without It
Oct 08, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 New Drag Race Products, BangShift 1320
If you are unaware of the importance of breaking in your flat tappet cam and doing so with right oil, please hand in your BangShift card at the door on the way out. The reality is that oils have...
Hot Rod Riot 2014 Show Coverage: Slammed Dually Trucks, Gassers, Wagons, Rats, And More
Oct 08, 2014Brian LohnesCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re back with more great Charles Wickam photos from the 2014 Hot Rod Riot car show which was held in Victoria, Texas. This was a wide open affair that...
Top 11: Tiniest Cars That McTaggart Has Had The Misfortune Of Fitting Into
Oct 08, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Let’s face facts: I’m 6’3, 270lbs, and I have a size 15EE shoe. Those three facts combine into someone who has a legitimate justification for owning a larger vehicle. Hell, unless...
Not Over By A Long Shot: Andy Frost Vows Changes To Red Victor Three – No Plans To Walk Away From Street Legal Record Chase
Oct 08, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
When Larry Larson laid down a 6.16/219mph run at the tail end of Hot Rod Drag Week 2014, the internet went nuts. It went nuts crowning him the king and it went nuts reminding Andy Frost that he...
Ohio Mile Land Speed Action Gallery: Our Last Blast Of Images From The September Meet
Oct 08, 2014Brian LohnesEvent Coverage, LAND SPEED RACES
(Photos by David Whelon) – Well we have reached the end of David Whealon’s awesome photos from the 2014 Ohio Mile/ECTA September meet. These photos are different than the ones we showed...
Video: Volvo Has Developed A 450hp Four Cylinder Drive-E Engine With Turbos And An Electric Blower?!
Oct 08, 2014Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
I get my chops busted for saying nice things about Volvo every now and again but I get it. The company has not had the biggest performance image here in the USA and while their new crop of cars have...
Ebay Find: A 1978 Oldsmobile Omega “Yenko”…Is It Close Enough or Too Far?
Oct 08, 2014Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
Yenko Chevrolet didn’t just play with Camaros. Chevelles, Vegas, Corvairs and even one known 1975 Pontiac Trans Am got the swift kick in the backside that Don Yenko was famous for. But...
Drag Action Gallery: The Fall Show-N-Go At Paradise Drag Strip – Calhoun, Georgia
Oct 08, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Paradise Drag Strip in Calhoun, Georgia has been around since 1961, and it’s still operated by the same family that founded it. If you’re interested...
Event Gallery: Cars and Coffee at Carmike Cinemas in Franklin, Tennessee
Oct 07, 2014Bryan McTaggartCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
My wife found this event. It would be on the same day as some other stuff we had to do around Nashville, we had the time, and there would be exotic cars so we had to go! I shrugged…why not?...
Train Wreck Video: Watch The Impact And Derailment That Caused A Louisiana Town To Be Evacuated – Unbelieveable!
Oct 07, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
A freight train in motion is an exercise of momentum. With rolling weights that generally go into the tens of thousands of tons carrying speeds similar to cars, stopping a freight train is the kind...
