Gone In Five Seconds: Andy Frost Talks About Losing The Street Car Record And The Quest To Get It Back
May 14, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
There are a handful of people on the planet that are seeking to achieve the ultimate bragging right in the world of street legal drag racing. That’s the title of “world’s quickest...
Classic YouTube: The Dodge Aries K Spoof Ad- Standard Features Make It Feel So…Ordinary.
May 13, 2015Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, MOPAR, Videos
When the K-cars debuted, they grabbed ahold of a market that up until then Chrysler was avoiding like the plague: cheap, reliable basic transportation. And somehow, the success of the K-car managed...
More Great Photos From The Scene At Top Notch Burgers In Austin, Texas – Sweet Cars At A Great Location
May 13, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we showed you our first blast of delayed photos from the Top Notch Burgers gathering at the Lonestar Round Up in Austin, Texas. Wickam was given a unique...
Brian Nearly Shat Himself When He Watched This Video Of A Russian Radial Engine In Action
May 13, 2015Chad ReynoldsVideos
No really! I was skimming YouTube yesterday and saw this one and figured Brian had to have seen it before, but since it had never been put up on the site I thought maybe not. So I sent him the link...
VP Racing Fuels Joins Forces With The Real Pro Mod Association and Jegs – Get Your VP Madditives From Jegs Now!
May 13, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, Sponsor News
It is always great news when two solid organizations hook up and strike a deal where everyone wins, even you. Such is the case with the announcement that VP Racing Fuels has partnered up with the...
It’s A Turbocharged Six Cylinder, It’s Got Plenty Of Power, But Can You Guess What The Mystery Car Is?
May 13, 2015Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
The footage isn’t that great, but it works…or, in other words, you will see the car that has the pressurized six cylinder blast by the camera clearly enough to know what you’re...
This Twin-Turbo LeBaron Is The Furthest Thing From A Chick Car You Can Get: 6.79@208 MPH!
May 13, 2015Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, MOPAR
So you wanna bag on K-cars, do you? The Spirit R/T and the Daytona IROC R/T just weren’t enough for you? Too little power? Wrong wheel drive? Ok, I’ll take care of that: how about the...
This 1973 Hemi Powered Duster Was Owner Built, Goes Like Hell, And Looks Factory Fresh
May 13, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
Vision is a tricky thing, Lots of times we’re featuring “vision” that results in automotive versions of the Toxic Avenger and other times, like this one we’re celebrating...
1980s Backlash: A Fiero That Can Run A Road Course And RallyCross Without A V8 Swap
May 13, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
The Pontiac Fiero was the end result of designer Hulki Aldikacti’s dream being railroaded by early 1980s General Motors budget restrictions and general ineptness. Aldikacti had envisioned a...
This Flat Track Motorcycle Has A Stuck Throttle And Terrorizes A Race Track Crowd – Demonic!
May 13, 2015Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
I have attended exactly one flat track motorcycle race in my life and it was a riot. These crazy riders and their equally crazy bikes put on one heck of a show. Like a two wheeled cousin to the World...
Unhinged: Here’s How Much I Care About The Negative Responses To 1980s Cars
May 13, 2015Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
The teeming masses always have their say when it comes to what we write on BangShift. We don’t delude ourselves here, we know not everything we put up is for everybody and not every comment...
Top Notch Burgers Cruise: The Cooler Hot Rods, Kustoms, and Trucks In Austin Converge!
May 12, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We totally screwed this up! While we were running Charles Wickam’s sweet photos from the 2015 Lonestar Round Up we had placed this folder of photos from the...
Holley Releases New Tri-Power Systems For Small Block Chevy Engines – Three Carbs And An Iconic Look
May 12, 2015Brian LohnesNew Products
Factory tri-power systems were on some of the most legendary muscle cars of the 1960s. Pontiac GTOs wore them with pride, some big block Corvettes had them, famed “six pack” Mopars had...
Ladies And Gentleman, Allow Us To Present The Worst 1968 Firebird In The World
May 12, 2015Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
Hero level BangShifter Jay Spinella is wholly responsible for sending us the Craigslist ad for what has to be the most terrible and defamed 1968 Pontiac Firebird in history. The seller claims that...
