Craigslist Find: V8-Swapped And California-Legal 1988 Toyota 4Runner – Really Clean, Pretty Pricey
Oct 21, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Online Find
The Toyota 4Runner of the late 1980s is a very lovable truck…they were light enough, peppy enough, and could play in the dirt just fine. They also had Toyota reliability going for them, and...
Bayou Bomb: Leroy Brown Is Heading For The 8s – Here’s A Last Look At One Of The Tamest Looking Deep 9-second Street Cars In America
Oct 21, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Charles Wickam) We’re breaking from normal protocol here. Why? Normally when a car owner tells us that he’s going to be blowing the car apart to make changes that should speed...
Question Of The Day: If You Saw A Trucker Driving Down The Road Steering With His Foot, What Would You Do?
Oct 21, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, BangShift XL
After watching this video, the first thing I can tell you is that words don’t fail me for my reaction. What is keeping me from publishing them, however, is that by doing so I’d probably...
Watch The Dodge Brothers Rip Along During A 100-Year Car Chase In This Cool New Ad
Oct 21, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Chrysler is living a weird double life right now. They have the whole Dodge mojo working with the Hellcat powered Challenger and Charger, they have the blown Challenger Drag Pack on the way, and they...
Funny Car Action At The 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion – Fiberglass Forest At Famoso!
Oct 21, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
Nostalgia funny cars have singlehandedly elevated the profile of “nostalgia” drag racing higher than anyone could have predicted it would be even 10 years ago. At first the cars were a...
Dodge’s Trademark Woes: “Hellcat” and “Scat Pack” Are Being Challenged In Court
Oct 21, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, MOPAR
Of all the things FCA really needs right now, two trademark battles over it’s more successful vehicles was certainly not it. Unfortunately, right now that’s exactly what they have on...
Funny Craigslist Ad For 1980s Motorcycle Crap Is The Most Boston Thing You Will Read All Day
Oct 21, 2014Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
If you read this ad using the completely over the top and ridiculous accent used by the guys in the popular “Hoppah” television commercials you will truly sound like someone speaking...
The Revival, Part 1: Bringing A Super Duty Back From The Trip To The Scrapyard
Oct 21, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Project Trucks
In the quest to locate a shop to wrench on the Project Raven Imperial in peace, quiet, and with enough solitude that I don’t wake the neighbors up with loud and unabashed swearing, I offered up...
Naked Motors And Thrashing In The Pits At The 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion – Sweet Photos Here
Oct 21, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
Perhaps the coolest thing about the 2014 California Hot Rod Reunion is the fact that so many vehicles at Famoso were burning nitro. From the cackle cars to the AA/FA exhibition machines, to the top...
Project Raven: The Prelude To The Stage 2 Build
Oct 21, 2014Bryan McTaggartProject Cars, Raven Imperial
The last time the Project Raven Imperial was seen, it was limping home from Beech Bend with a transmission that was making a lot of odd and angry noises. Since then there has been a lot of...
Watch The 2014 Ridler Winning Revision Buick Hit The Goodguys Autocross – Sideways Action From The Wild Creation
Oct 21, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Kids, we live in a generation where Ridler Award winning cars are cruised on the streets, taken to the Bonneville salt flats, and in this video the defending Ridler winner is autocrossed at a...
Raymond Beadle Has Died – All Time Drag Racing Great Was Phenomenal Driver, Visionary Promoter, Loved The World Over
Oct 20, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
We hate writing these. Funny car giant Raymond Beadle has died. We had been hearing that Beadle was having some medical issues and were hoping for the best but it seems as though that will not be the...
Unhinged: One Out Of Every Five Vehicles Sold Has Been Recalled This Year.
Oct 20, 2014Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
At time of writing, there have been 544 recalls that have affected 52 million vehicles for model year 2014. Think about that: One-fifth of the vehicles sold this year shouldn’t have been sold...
Rough Start: Want To Haul A Lot Of Friends With You? How About A 1971 AMC Ambassador?
Oct 20, 2014Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, OTHER
This one brings back memories. Right about the time I was trying to get a 1979 Cutlass running and driving…which puts me at about 14 years old…a big red sled came into the yard. Up until...
