The Black Knight Transformer Is A Helicopter AND A Truck – This Video Of It Driving And Flying Is Stunning
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Call it a transformer, call it a flying cargo van, call it whatever you want but the Black Knight Transformer built by Advanced Tactics is one of the neatest things we have seen in action for some...
25 years ago today, a guy with a Cessna and an AK-47 held the city of Boston hostage
May 09, 2014Craig FitzgeraldBangShift News
In 2014, Boston celebrated a grim anniversary on Patriot’s Day, at the running of the Boston Marathon. Twenty-five years ago tonight, the city experienced another terrorist attack, this time...
This Ratty Looking, Diesel Powered 1947 Chevy Truck Is Fugly, Functional, And Flippin’ Fun (Video)
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
As I have mentioned a couple of times this week, I’ve been hanging out in Denver with 10 of the toughest street legal diesel trucks in North America and hosting the action as they have been put...
Holley Introduces New Line Of Mighty Mite Electric Fuel Pumps – Perfect For Your 300-400hp Carb’d Ride
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesSponsor News
Lots of guys want to run an electric fuel pump to feed their mild 300-400hp engine but don’t want to get into the hassle of running a regulator and adding a bunch of plumbing to their engine...
Keels and Wheels 2014 – Our Parting Collection Of Photos From Texas’s Neatest Gearhead Show
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – This is our last gallery from the 2014 Texas edition of the Keels and Wheels Concours show and we’ve saved the most BangShifty stuff for this gallery! In here...
Frriday BOOM: A Massive Nitrous Explosion With Bonus Aftermath Footage Of The ‘Sploded Intake Manifold
May 09, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Normally with nitrous explosion videos, there’s no real idea of what happens after the big BOOM. That’s not the case with this video, shot at North Carolina’s Outer Banks Raceway....
This Tank Tracked 1978 Ford Fairmont Is Way Cooler Than Any LS Swapped Fairmont We Have Ever Seen
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
As you well know, the Ford Fairmont has become hot stuff for the small tire drag racing crowd to use as a platform to build race cars off of. The Fox body sedans are cheap, light, and no one really...
Kool –Aid & Cool Cars: Chump Car Race Report From Motorsports Park Hastings, Nebraska
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesApex Chump Car Series News, Apex Gallery, Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries
(Words and Photos by Charlene Felton-Haney) – The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com), made their debut at Motorsports Park Hastings located in Hastings, NE just 157 miles...
1980s Video Greatness: The Story Of The Heavy Metal Monster Van – Evolution Of The Coolest Ford Van Ever
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
One of the neatest things about 1980s monster trucks is that most of the original machines started out as street trucks at some point in their life and eventually morphed into what were the first...
Cool Drag Action From The Pro Street Racing Association Event At Thunder Valley Raceway In Oklahoma
May 09, 2014Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races
(Words and photos by Brad Klaassen) – If it’s the first Saturday from April to October during racing season in Oklahoma, that means that Thunder Valley Raceway Park just outside Noble,...
Gallery: Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Killer Trucks at the NSRA Street Rod Nationals South in Knoxville, TN
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – The first weekend of May is always the time for NSRA to come to Knoxville, Tennessee and host the Street Rod Nationals South. This event has been going...
Watch This BMW Driver Run Out Of Talent And Literally Drive His Car Off A Cliff (He Lives)
May 09, 2014Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Let’s set there scene here. It is dusk, the sun is setting on a warm California evening. We’re literally strapped to the roof of a BMW M3 as the driver weaves and cuts through the canyon...
FireAde Joins With Gray Motorsports Pro Stock Camaro Driver Shane Gray
May 08, 2014Darr Hawthorne1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News
We get a lot of Press Releases landing into the email In-box, but this rendering of Shane Gray’s sleek Jerry Haas-built Chevy Camaro caught our eye. The new FireAde Camaro will debut at the...
Book Review: Liam Garritty’s Saturday Forever Drag Racing Photo Book And Bonus March Meet Photos
May 08, 2014Chad Reynolds1320 Drag News
As a child growing up at Fremont Drag Strip, the romanticism of drag cars of all kinds was huge to my little mind. Thinking back to those days makes you feel like the Funny Cars and Top Fuel...
