BangShift 2014 Photo Highlight Reel: Brad Klaassen’s Fantastic 2014 Season In Action Photos – Great Stuff!
Dec 17, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – 2014 was another incredible racing season for me. I kicked off the beginning of the year with dirt slinging midget action at the Chili Bowl Nationals in...
Ebay Find: This Duramax-Powered 1970 Chevelle Can Give You Speed And Fuel Economy, At A Price
Dec 17, 2014Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, eBay Find
Not everybody is cut out to build their own car, and that’s alright. The engineering and mechanical ability required to put together a high-quality car takes years, sometimes decades, to...
Get Your Morning Started Right With These Vintage Trans Am Racing Videos
Dec 16, 2014Dave NuttingApex Video, BangShift APEX
Earlier today, Brian wrote about a pretty gnarly 1969 Chevelle that was dropped onto a NASCAR chassis. While the chassis itself is from a late 90’s Cup car, the fact that a late 60’s Chevelle...
WHEELIE FEST! Cool Temperatures and a Hookin’ Track Bring A Dramatic End to Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip’s 2014 Season
Dec 16, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip has had great success with its 275 drag radial program, as well as weekly bracket races. To wrap up the 2014 season, the...
BANGSHIFT 2014 PHOTO HIGHLIGHT REEL: BENOIT PIGEON’S SPECTACULAR PHOTOS FROM THE STRIPS OF THE EAST COAST
Dec 16, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
(Words and spectacular photos by Benoit Pigeon) – How to decide what are my favorite shots taken during the year. That’s a tough one! In fact I started early on this year to put thumb...
Simeone Museum Demo Day Part 2: The Wild History Of Shelby Daytona Coupe CSX2287 – Phil Spector, Bonneville, More
Dec 16, 2014Brian LohnesApex Car Feature, BangShift APEX
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The story of the Shelby Daytona coupe is one of the more amazing in American automotive history. They were built as an all out effort for Shelby to stand toe to toe...
Watch “The Cutty” From Street Outlaws Make Some Dyno Rips At Mike Murillo Motorsports With Its New LSx Combo
Dec 16, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
While the personalities on the Street Outlaws may be a turn off to some hot rodders, we can tell you from personal experience that every one of the cars we have ever seen in person have been very,...
PRI 2014: The Cool, The Interesting, And The Awesome – Cars, Tractors, Trucks, And Parts From Racing’s Coolest Show
Dec 16, 2014Brian LohnesEvent Coverage, OTHER
We’re getting down to the end of our coverage from PRI 2014, but there’s still plenty of life left in this photo essay from the floor of the show. The only thing that could possibly make...
Packing Up And Going Home: Volvo Plans To Pull Out Of All Motorsports By 2016
Dec 16, 2014Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
This one caught us by surprise. Volvo Cars’ Marketing Director Alain Visser has made it clear that Volvo will end all involvement with motorsports by 2016. In a statement made to Dagens...
How The Australian Automobile Manufacturing Sector Died-This Is A Great Read
Dec 16, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Within two years from now, Australian automobile manufacturing will end. Ford is closing shop, Holden and Toyota are closing shop, and the rest have already cleared out, some long ago, others, more...
Question Of The Day: Do You Honestly Care If A New Hypercar Is Unveiled?
Dec 16, 2014Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, OTHER
When the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 burst onto the scene in 2005, the car cemented it’s place in history as a technological masterpiece capable of things that even ten years prior were deemed...
Raminator Breaks Monster Truck Speed Record At Circuit Of The Americas
Dec 16, 2014Darr HawthorneBangShift XL, XL Race Truck Feature, XL Spotlight
Monster trucks aren’t just for dirt arenas and this story will prove how much power and grace it takes to move 11,000 pounds with a 565 cubic inch HEMI during an attempt to set the “Fastest...
eBay Find: This 1994 Mack Wrecker Served To Keep New York’s Lincoln Tunnel Open – Awesome And Versatile Truck
Dec 16, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
When millions of people live on an island and there are limited numbers of ways on and off said island, keeping those thoroughfares open is a prime concern. This 1994 Mack MR688P truck that has a...
So You Think Rally Is Easy? This Footage From The 2014 WRC Rally Deutschland Will Change Your Mind
Dec 16, 2014Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
We feature a lot of rally stuff here, but with most of the videos (especially the ones that don’t involve carnage), it’s not easy to understand just how difficult it is to actually do....
