This 600hp V8-powered, Four Wheel Drive, Four Wheel Steering Midget Truck Is Insanity Painted Red
Apr 24, 2015Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The video has been around for over eight years now, but it’s the first time I can recall seeing anything like it. It’s like one of those off-roading golf karts on Mötley Crüe levels of...
Unhinged: Who Should We Be More Angry At With This ABC News Piece On Street Racing? The “Racers” Or The Reporters?
Apr 24, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, RACING & ACTION, Videos
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody that LAPD, CHP, and other police forces in the southern California area would ramp up anti-street racing actions following the Chatsworth crash in...
Roll With These Drift Trike Riders Down The World’s Steepest Street
Apr 24, 2015Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Baldwin Street is officially recognized as the steepest street in the world by Guinness. With an average slope of 1:5 and a section of the hill measuring at a 35% grade, the 1,150 ft. long road in...
Hanging The Tail Out With A Bentley Seems Wrong, But When Chris Harris Meets The GT3R, Magic Happens
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
The Bentley GT3R is, for lack of a better explanation, the closest thing to a homologation race car you can ever expect to see from Bentley. It’s got a wicked up V8, deeper rear gears with a...
The Chevrolet FNR Is The Driverless Pod Of The Future, So GM Claims
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CHEVY
Remember concept cars from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, the ones that were less production teasers and more way-out-in-left-field crazy? Cars like the Aston Martin Bulldog, Buick Wildcat, and...
Things Get Hot When This Demo Derby Car’s Flywheel Explodes!
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Demolition derby is the fastest “test to failure” situation for vehicles on the planet. While that seems like a Captain Obvious statement, think about it: if you’ve ever seen or...
Rough Stuff: Two Major League Wrecks From The IHRA Pro-Am At Richmond Dragway In Virginia
Apr 23, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
If you have been around the sport of drag racing for any length of time in either the spectator or racer capacity, you know that one of “those weekends” is bound to come up here and...
There’s Some S-10, Some Chevy II, And More Questions Than Answers With This Craigslist “Rat Rod”
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find
Chalk this find up in the “What in the hell am I looking at?” category for BangShift’s online perusing. We’re not quite certain where people get the idea to rebody an entire...
Lonestar Round Up 2015: Flatheads, Nailheads, Wagons, Trucks, Hot Rods, Kustoms, More!
Apr 23, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The avalanche of Charles Wickam photos continues from the 2015 Lonestar Round Up. This is the Austin, Texas car show that draws fans and cars from all corners of...
Watch This Alcohol-Fueled 604ci Mopar B1 Smack This Dyno Around To The Tune of 1,885HP!
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartENGINES, MOPAR, Videos
I swear, I had the full intention to find a Mopar engine that had puked it’s guts out when I was searching through YouTube. However, not thinking, I typed in the words “blown Mopar...
Watch These Two MotoGP Riders Have The Biggest Grade-School Fight On The Track You’ve Ever Seen
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, FUNNY STUFF
Racers aren’t known for excellent temper control. It’s a combination of the determination of every racer to win coupled with the usual alpha personality that is present. It’s not...
The 45th Annual Spring Tune Up Car Show By The New England Early Ford V8 Club Ruled – Photo Coverage!
Apr 23, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – For nearly half a century now, the Early Ford Club V8 of New England has put on the Spring Tune Up car show to get hot rodders and gearheads out of the winter...
The Chairslayers Foundation Brings In The First Participant In To Learn How To Drive Rob Parson’s Drift Nissan
Apr 23, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
We recently featured Rob Parsons’ Chairslayers Foundation program, which aims to use Parsons’ drift-built LS-powered Nissan and his custom-made hand control system to assist those who are...
This 1981 Chevy C80 Is A Four Car Hauler/Rolling Stunt Launch Ramp You Have Always Wanted
Apr 23, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
You know, some vehicles are built for one purpose but can totally be used for another. School buses are regularly turned into campers, old flatbeds are made into car haulers, and car haulers can be...
