Mopar Heaven! We Attend The Indy Cylinder Head Annual Swap Meet
Mar 25, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – For those of you involved in the world of Mopars, the name Indy Cylinder Heads is synonymous with rip snorting high horsepower Chrysler goodness. Every...
Classic YouTube: The South Carolina Muscle Car Society’s First Annual Burnout Contest
Mar 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Cool cars, frying tires, and good music…if there’s a better combination to get our attention at BangShift, chances are good that we can’t show it on the front page. This footage...
Barnstormin’: Of Steam Engines And Small Tires
Mar 25, 2015Brian LohnesBarnstormin'
(Photo credit: NMCA/Steve Baur) – No, as best I understand there are no plans for any sanctioning body to release a “steam outlaw” class in the near or distant future but I did...
This Dashcam Caught The Moment A Truck Fell Off Of A Ramp And Into The Middle Of Traffic In Canada
Mar 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
It doesn’t take much to startle drivers on a busy motorway. If an animal darts into traffic, drivers saw the wheel like they were setting up for a drift entry, which tends to really mess with...
Expensive Carnage: The Mercedes “Porter Special” Crashed Into A Lister-Jaguar At The Goodwood Circuit
Mar 25, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
(Photos: Motoring Research via AutoEvolution.com) Historical races are a great way to see the race cars of yesteryear come out and exercise instead of sitting static in a museum, but there is always...
Watch This Table Top Sized Ardun Headed Flattie Fire Up And Run – The Sound Is Great!
Mar 25, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
You can thank garbage trucks for the birth of not only some of the most legendary and coveted hot rod parts known to man in the form of Ardun cylinder heads but also for launching the career of a man...
Irwindale Speedway Likely To Be Demolished To Make Room For An Outlet Mall
Mar 25, 2015Bryan McTaggart1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift APEX
California speed freaks, got some bad news for you. Irwindale Speedway is all but condemned to be razed and repurposed as an outlet mall. City officials and Irwindale Outlet Partners, LLC will meet...
This 1967 Tatra T138 Is The Only Truck For Sale On eBay Right Now With A Massive Air Cooled Diesel V8
Mar 25, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
In the “stuff that is weird and awesome” department, we have this 1967 Tatra T138 truck that was (and may still be in) built in Czechoslovakia and served in a military capacity over...
Houston Holds “Legalized Street Racing” Event, With Police Assistance. Is This The Way To Fix The Problems With Street Racing?
Mar 25, 2015Bryan McTaggart1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Street racing is one of the big hot-button issues of the year, with the Chatsworth, California crash bringing the dangers back into the public eye. But in Houston, Texas, an event called “Dig...
Video: This Guy Turned A 1940s Art Deco Style Gas Station Into A Really Awesome House! BangShift Approved Living Quarters
Mar 25, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
While most of us get by with having a neat piece of automobilia hanging from the wall or maybe a shelf of cool car stuff in our home to signify our love of things that make noise and go vroom-vroom,...
UPDATED: UK’s The Telegraph Reporting That Jeremy Clarkson Is To Be Fired…Now With The Official BBC Statement
Mar 24, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Oh, no. No, no, no. This is not going to end well for anybody. The Telegraph is reporting that Lord Hall, the Director General of the BBC, is expected to fire Jeremy Clarkson after reviewing the...
2015 Goodguys Lone Star Nationals Autocross Action! See The RideTech 48-Hour Corvette In Action!
Mar 24, 2015Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Spotlight, BangShift APEX
(Photos by Jason Brady/RideTech) – The skies may have been gray but the action between the cones at the 2015 Goodguys Lone Star Nationals autocross was red hot. Headlined by the awesome and...
Question Of The Day: WHY? Will Someone Please Explain What Happened To This Poor Mid-1960’s Mopar?
Mar 24, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, MOPAR
Let me start by apologizing for ruining your breakfast, and quite possibly your lunch too. About this time last year I stumbled across a 1980s Chrysler Cordoba that had been treated to the Superbird...
See The Taillights On That Baby-Blue Escort? Get Used To Them…0-60 in 2.9, Nines In The Quarter!
Mar 24, 2015Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD
The Mk3 version of the European Ford Escort is just about identical to the first generation Escort we got here in the States in the early 1980s. Keep that in mind as you watch this robin egg blue...
