Ken Block Takes On The 2017 Ford Focus RS – THIS Is How You Introduce A New Vehicle!
Feb 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, FORD
Say you’re in a position of power within Ford Performance. You’re still riding high after the coup d’etat that you just pulled off at the North American International Auto Show,...
Historical Training Footage: This 1967 FBI Training Film Was A Lesson On Investigating Stolen Cars
Feb 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
As long as there has been a car, there’s been a thief who is more than ready to acquisition an automobile for themselves. The first car theft is attributed to Baron de Zuylen’s Peugeot in...
TransAsia Flight 235 Crash: What We Know About What Happened To The ATR-72
Feb 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
By now you’ve seen the story of TransAsia Flight 235: the twin-turboprop ATR-72-600 lost forward momentum shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport and crashed about five...
Remember The Ancient Atari Game Dragsters? We Do And We’re Still Playing It!
Feb 05, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift News
(Words and photos by Tony Sestito) – Winter in the northeast for a gearhead means that all of the cool summer rides that populate cruise nights, local dragstrips, and autocrosses go into...
What’s It Like To Be Thrown Into A Strange Racing Series? Roadracer Mike Musto Gets His First Taste Of Drifting
Feb 05, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
A day after I took our project Chrysler 300C to the NCM Motorsport Park’s road course, I was having a chat with a friend of mine who shares the whole automotive addiction thing, explaining the...
This 1964 Ginetta G4 R Is An English Racer With An Italian Name That Looks Like An American Legend
Feb 05, 2015Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
Normally when I am scanning eBay looking for cool stuff, I skip the sales that are ending before they’ll hit the front page but even though this auction will have ended by the time you read...
New Parts: QuickTime Introduces New Line Of Full 4130 Chromoly Steel Flexplates
Feb 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartNew Products
There are a few basic things that serve as the foundation for any product that you install on your car. Materials and construction make the literal foundation for every hot rod speed part out there...
Precision Turbo Rolls Out New True Street Class Legal Turbo – This Is How You Run At The Front
Feb 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartNew Products
Precision Turbo and Engine has just announced a new class legal GEN2 PT6785 CEA turbo for the True Street class in NMCA/NMRA competition. Due to class rules, the compressor wheel is limited to 67mm...
Hot Part (Literally): DEI Rolls Out New V8 Protect-A-Wire Kit To End Melted Plug Wire Hassle
Feb 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartNew Products
There are few things more annoying than to have your car be running like a top and then all of a sudden discovering a miss and not just a miss but a miss caused by a spark plug wire that flopped over...
2015 Z/28 Camaro For Sale Cheap In Texas – Needs Some Body Work (Can You Repack Airbags?)
Feb 04, 2015Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
BangShifter Scott Inman shot us a note with the link to this thoroughly mangled 2015 Z/28 Camaro. This is one of the few and the proud 2015 Z/28s to be produced and it has been reduced to a pile of...
Parting Ways: Is This Dusty Smashed Grand National Worth The Scratch?
Feb 04, 2015Dave NuttingApex Online Find
(Parting Ways is a new semi-regular blog item where Nutting scours the internet for interesting parts cars for his fictional parts car business) Before I dive into the horror that is this...
Car Feature: Street Legal Circle Track Camaro Is A Unique, Homebuilt, Corner Burning Monster
Feb 04, 2015Brian LohnesApex Car Feature, BangShift APEX
(Words and photos by Jim Volgarino) – A true gearhead can point to some seminal moment when he or she was struck by an unexplainable epiphany. That moment when you knew things had changed and...
Craigslist Find: A VW Beetle With A GM 3800 V6 Hanging Off Of The Back
Feb 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, OTHER
It takes some serious stones to think up an engine swap like this. This 1973 Volkswagen Beetle has been subjected to one of the strangest engine swaps I’ve seen in quite some time, where a GM...
BangShift Project Files: Jamming A 5.0 Into A Well-Used BMW
Feb 04, 2015Bryan McTaggartOTHER, Project Cars
The forums of BangShift are made up of all kinds of enthusiasts. We really do try to cover it all, and we go out of our way to find some of the more strange combinations that exist. Some of them are...
