Great Video: Watch Gas Monkey’s Aaron Kaufman Hammer On His 1963 Falcon In Tick Tock
Dec 31, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift APEX
(Now that Aaron Kaufman has left Gas Monkey Garage we thought it would be a good time to show you Tick Tock again. Who knows, making this video may have been the moment when Kaufman decided to...
Deceptive Nostalgia: We Dissect A Modern B/Nostalgia Dragster To See How Advanced It Really Is
Dec 31, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Cars Without Doors Feature, 1320 Drag News, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, BangShift 1320
The idea of “nostalgia” anything in drag racing other than Don Garlits making burnouts in Swamp Rat 1 is kind of a joke. Nostalgia funny cars? Look at some photos from the late 1960s or...
Best of 2016: Buddies Go Snow Wheelin’ After A Huge Blizzard In The Late 1970s – Vintage Truck Coolness
Dec 31, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Talk to people on the eastern seaboard about the Blizzard of ’78 and they will talk about the huge storm that came up the coast and wrought havoc on every city it dumped snow on. Believe it or...
Best of 2016: A White 1993 Lincoln Town Car That Is Packing A 700 Horsepower Monster Under Its Expansive Hood
Dec 31, 2016Bryan McTaggartFORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos
You want to build a sleeper that will work in today’s day and age? Good luck. You have two options: find a platform with a ton of aftermarket parts and support, downplay the image, and hope...
Best of 2016: Watch The Engine In The Murder Nova Go Back Together In The Pits At Lights Out 7
Dec 31, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Shawn Ellington’s week and weekend at SGMP for Lights Out 7 got off to a harder start than he had wanted after wounding the engine of his famous Murder Nova in pre-event testing. The bad part...
This 1956 Chevrolet 5100 Is 2 Ton Greatness That Deserves To Be A Ramp Truck
Dec 30, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find
We don’t often see these mid-’50s big trucks, so when we do it gets us excited. This one in particular is just begging for life on a later model chassis so that it could become a really...
Best of 2016: Onboard Ice Racing From Garfield Lake In Minnesota – Where A 1990s Buick Can Be Competitive!
Dec 30, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
There has to be some kind of unnerving feeling inside of a driver when pulling a car the size of a 1990s Buick Roadmaster onto a frozen lake. Questions emerge…for most people, those questions...
Large Barge: This 1959 Ford Wagon Has A Twin Turbo 557ci Big Block Ford And Big Meats Out Back
Dec 30, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
Well this thing is really something. If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to own something big and bad, you may want to take care of that a little early and get your fists on this 1959 Ford...
Benoit Pigeon 2016 Photo Highlight Reel: His Favorite Images From The Year That Was
Dec 30, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Our man Benoit Pigeon has had one hell of a 2016. The guys attended events all over the place, shot zillions of photos, and even launched his own publication which...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Lincoln Park Pirates – A Ballad About Chicago’s Most Infamous Towing Company
Dec 30, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – In 1972 Steve Goodman wrote this little ditty about a Chicago towing company, Lincoln Towing. They are actually Protective Parking Services, d.b.a. Lincoln Towing. Their...
Craigslist Chronicles: Who Do I Have To Kill To Buy A Truck On Craigslist?!
Dec 30, 2016Chad ReynoldsChadMouth, XL Spotlight
I’m killing some ass hat before this is over. I mean seriously, how hard is it to shoot photos with your phone, list the features, options, and mileage, and decide on a price? How hard is that?...
This Briggs Engine Has A Glass Cylinder Head!
Dec 30, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Spotlight, XL Videos
Oh yeah, combustion is fully visible in this bad boy! Last week we had a video that showed a glass cylinder on an engine, but this is just one of the many videos the guys at 805RoadKing have put...
This Suzuki Katana-Powered Go Kart Is 100% Nuts, And We Want It!
Dec 30, 2016Tony SestitoBangShift News, Craigslist Find
Go Karts are cool, and you know we love them. Many gearheads and BangShifters got their start wrenching on these small four wheeled vehicles, including yours truly. I remember scrounging $200...
This Custom 6×6 Dodge Van Would Be The Most Bitchin Road Trip Machine
Dec 30, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find
Vans are cool, but some of them are cooler than others. For us, our love of vans in dangerous because we like off-road vans, expedition vans, surf vans, race vans, cruiser vans, retro vans, and full...
