This Awesome 2.0L Turbo Pinto Engine Is So Old School It Hurts – History Anyone?
Feb 11, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
Potent, angry, temperamental, and not all that common, the turbo Pinto engine became a frightening force to be reckoned with in the hands of guys like Ohio George Montgomery, Buddy Ingersoll, and a...
Pro-Touring Tuesdays: This European Camaro Is A Tire Frying Drift Machine
Feb 10, 2015Dave NuttingApex Pro Touring Tuesdays, Apex Spotlight, BangShift APEX
Here at BangShift we put in the hard work of scouring the internet to bring you the coolest automotive news and content of the “Hey, you gotta see this” variety from around the world....
Rally Perfection Video: Watch An Amazing Driver And Co-Driver Dominate A Sloppy Stage In A Finnish Forest
Feb 10, 2015Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Racer Juha Kankkunen is a legend in Finland and while watching the video below you will figure out why. The guy is manhandling his car though a rainy, muddy, and otherwise sloppy stage during the...
Racing Footage: Outlaw 10.5 Drag Racing At Sydney Dragway – Small-Tire Door Cars Down Under!
Feb 10, 2015Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We love small-tire doorslammer racing around here, and the Aussies love it too, and for good reason: It’s exciting drag racing. Watching high-power cars put the power down on small tires is a...
This Old Ford N-600 Truck Needs A New Home And A New Paint Job Stat
Feb 10, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
1960s era Ford N-series trucks are some of my personal favorites. They have an almost cartoonish style about them that you can’t help but smile when you look at and they were used to haul...
Good News: British Touring Car Racing Is Coming To U.S. Television!
Feb 10, 2015Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
This is happy news for anyone who used to watch Speedvision when it first came on: British Touring Car Championship racing (read: angry Europeans in violent race-prepared road cars) is coming back to...
These Multi-Lane Tow Plows Are The Winter Innovation Every State Needs
Feb 10, 2015Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
This video has kicked around for a couple years but it is something that every person in a cold weather state should see. These tow plows being used by the Missouri DOT (in this film) are brilliant...
Historical Footage: Torture-Testing A Plymouth The Old-Fashioned Way, By Using Stunt Drivers!
Feb 10, 2015Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, Videos
Nowadays, vehicles are subjected to torture tests in laboratories that can duplicate some of the most violent conditions that an automobile can possibly expect to endure. They are frozen, cooked,...
This 1976 Pacer Was “Customized in the 1970s” and “Struggles With Highway Speeds” – Saddest Thing Ever
Feb 10, 2015Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
Now before you gets your shorts all in a knot, we are not ripping on all AMC Pacers. We have highlighted far more cool Pacers here than we ever have ripped on horrid ones. With that being said, this...
This Oldsmobile-Powered “Go-Kart” Just Might Be The Most Frightening Piece Of Backyard Engineering Ever
Feb 10, 2015Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Performance comes via two methods: make more power, or lose more weight. Most of us go for the first option and proceed to build engines that crank power well beyond what the manufacturer expected....
American Powertrain Releases New Aluminum X-Factor Cross Member For 1970-74 Camaros
Feb 10, 2015Brian LohnesNew Products
If you are building an early second generation Camaro and are in the market for a cross member, this is the cross member you need. The American Powertrain X-Factor cross member is built out of...
How To Mess With Late-Model Muscle: The Callaway Twin-Turbo Corvette
Feb 10, 2015Bryan McTaggartCar Features, CHEVY, eBay Find
As it sits right now, you can go to a dealership, drop about fifty grand and walk out with a set of wheels that will accelerate, corner, and stop with great comfort. All you have to do is pick your...
Upside Down Is The New Right Side Up At The King Of The Hammers 2015 Off Road Race!
Feb 10, 2015Chad ReynoldsXL Event Coverage
Yesterday we gave you our first gallery of photos from the Nitto King of the Hammers 2015 event in the California Desert, and it was awesome! But we have even awesomer stuff today, so get your butts...
Watch Matt Hagan’s Major League Inferno From The 2015 NHRA Winternationals
Feb 09, 2015Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
There are LOTS of safety enhancements and systems built into modern nitro funny cars and they are there because for decades there have been some common enemies of funny car drivers. The most common...
