Australian Drag Week 2014 Looks Like It Was Awesome – The Craze Officially Moves Into The Southern Hemisphere!
Jan 05, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I was told that there was going to be an Australian drag week style event in 2014 and frankly I lost track of it and was happily surprised to find some cool video of the goings on plunked right there...
Are You A Masochist That Likes The Snow? Then These Car Vs. Bike Races On The Cold Stuff Are For You!
Jan 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
While 32 degrees Fahrenheit sounds like frozen hell to me, in other parts of the world it’s T-shirt and jeans weather. When they talk about snow, they freaking mean it, and the racing...
Listening To This GT3 Camaro Rip Around The Track Should Help Some With The Cabin Fever
Jan 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, CHEVY
Drag racing, road racing…hell, at this point I’ll watch a ton of FWD hatchbacks from the early 1990s race in a Wal-Mart parking lot if the drivers will run them like they mean it. Winter...
In-Car Rally Footage: How To Scare Your Co-Driver In One Easy Smack
Jan 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
There’s no question that it takes courage to be a rally driver, but it takes a special kind of bravery…or insanity, whatever…to be a co-driver. You are in the middle of barely...
Blog Fight: McTaggart’s Pontiac Wagon Is For CHUMPS! This 1976 Cadillac Castilian Wagon Is Where It’s At
Jan 05, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
Clearly McTaggart thought he was going to be the king of wagon mountain on the blog today but I have news for him. That Pontiac he found is pretty clean but let’s be honest, that thing is a...
Ebay Find: A Nine-Passenger Pontiac Clamshell Wagon, Perfect For Loading Up The Entire “Family”
Jan 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
We love station wagons. They are roomy, useable, aren’t really much different than any modern SUV, and since they pretty much lost their “mom and dad” stigma about twenty years ago,...
Driveway Tech: How To Tune Your Carb Like A Pro With An Air/Fuel Ratio Gauge – We Show You How!
Jan 05, 2015Brian LohnesENGINE, Tech Stories
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – If you have ever tuned a car with EFI, one of your basic tools used is an AFR gauge. Did you know you could use the same AFR gauge to tune a car with a...
Car Transporter Deliberately Grounded In UK Waters After It Develops Severe List
Jan 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
A car transport ship was intentionally run aground near the Isle of Wright, U.K. on Saturday, January 4, 2015 after it developed a severe list an hour after leaving Southampton. The MV Höegh Osaka,...
Destruction Video: The Australians Do Everyone A Huge Favor And Euthanize A Taurus With A Horrifyingly Bad Bodykit
Jan 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, FORD, Videos
The third-generation Ford Taurus wasn’t a well-liked car in the United States, owing mostly to the fact that the design went from a family-friendly potato-ish shape to a mess of blobs and orbs...
Basic Tech: Rebuilding A Rochester B Carburetor
Jan 04, 2015Brian LohnesENGINE, Tech Stories
Goliath, our lumbering 1966 Chevy C50 project truck, is equipped with a 292ci straight six engine. That workaday mill is not exactly what you’d call a performance piece in stock condition. That...
This Two Minute Alfa Romeo Produced Video For The Introduction Of The 4C Is A Stunner – The Message, The Visual, And The Attitude (May Not Be Work Safe)
Jan 04, 2015Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
I meant what I said in the title about this video flirting with the borders of what would be considered “safe” for work. There’s some pretty intense stuff happening here and I do...
“Uh-Oh” Video: Randal Key Launches His Rockcrawler, Camera Operator Requires New Pants
Jan 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Off Road Feature, XL Videos
“Location, location, location.” If you are recording anything to do with a vehicle, knowing where to stand makes the difference between you being a hero and a grease spot that once was a...
A Fast Lap Of The Nurburgring Nordschliefe…In The Snow, Because The Track Itself Just Wasn’t Dangerous Enough
Jan 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
I’m an absolute sissy when it comes to the cold, I’ll openly admit it to anybody. When the temperature drops below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, I start to question whether or not working...
100% BangShift Approved Video: Watch Jim Pace Haul Ass Around Sebring In A Lola T70 Can Am Car – Ford V8 Power!
Jan 03, 2015Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Jim Pace is our adopted maniac road racer here at BangShift. Pace is always wheeling something awesome and lots of times it is vintage or historic. In this video he is running an old Lola T70 Spyder...
