2016 Dallas Autorama Coverage: T-Buckets, Customs, Muscle, And A Load Of Wallys!
Feb 26, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Between a t-bucket with a Ford Indy car engine in it and a drag car surrounded by an absolute pile of NHRA Wally trophies this round of 2016 Dallas Autorama...
eBay Find: The 1972 Ford Ranchero From “Leepu And Pitbull” – If You Wondered Who Would Replace Barris, Wonder No More
Feb 26, 2016Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD, TRUCKS
One of my more recent automotive kicks is to take a 1972-79 Ford Ranchero and build it up into a muscle ute. Not like a hot rod, but like a badass shop truck: clean, restoration look body, beefed up...
Go! vs Woah! – Les Mayhew Tackles The Great Debate Of Tradition Versus Progress In Nostalgia Racing
Feb 26, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
As you diehard BangShifters well know, we’ll be LIVE from the 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet at Bakersfield next weekend. That is one of the largest and most prestigious nostalgia drag races...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Keyless Volvos, GM Vs. Tesla, And More!
Feb 26, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Is it racing season yet? No? How about now? It’s not that we’re getting cabin fever while waiting for Spring to get it’s act together but…ok, yeah, we are certainly getting...
Check This Out: A 1,300 Horsepower Twin-Turbo Restomod 1974 Road Runner
Feb 26, 2016Bryan McTaggartMOPAR
There are only so many cars out there, folks. Sooner or later, desirable cars will all be spoken for and then what? I’ve been railing on for years about the smog-era cars, the Malaise-era...
Unhinged: Meet The Fiat 500L Tiberio Taxi…It’s A Tropical Taxi For Blind Tourists, We Think.
Feb 26, 2016Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
There is nothing wrong with saying that I’m not a fan of pretty much anything Fiat. I don’t like the 124 Spyder. I don’t like the 500, new or old. And I’m very hard-pressed to...
If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: This Porsche 918 Spyder Owner Puts The Hypercar To Work!
Feb 26, 2016Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
It’s easy to shrug off supercars and hypercars as nothing more than six and seven-figure rolling testaments to obscene spending and the like, and that may be true, but let’s be real for a...
Freaky Funny Car Barn Find: Odd Chassis And Configuration Have Us Scratching Our Heads
Feb 26, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
This is truly a case of a story being more than skin deep. Most people would look at this 1969 Nova bodied funny car and think that it was some sort of old match racer or nitro burner from the glory...
BangShift Project Files: A Root Beer Brown 1972 Buick Skylark Droptop That Is Getting Some Love
Feb 26, 2016Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Project Cars
You really can’t go wrong with any of the GM A-bodies made between 1968-1972. They are popular, have an amazing aftermarket, look solid no matter how you build them, and are one of the few...
Record: Watch The First 250+ MPH Quarter Mile Pass By A Six Cylinder Car EVER – EKanoo Does It!
Feb 25, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We were alerted to an awesome piece of drag racing history that happened today in Bahrain by Bret Kepner when he sounded the alert that the first 250+ mph quarter mile pass ever made by a six...
Epic Troll Bernie Ecclestone Declares F1 ‘Worse Than It Has Ever Been’, Tells Reporters He Wouldn’t Pay To Watch
Feb 25, 2016Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
If there is one thing that Formula One honcho Bernie Ecclestone can never be accused of it is hiding his feelings. The guy says what he thinks and has built up a layer of armor around him thick...
Mud Bog Time Machine: More Rigs, More Muck, and More Action From Oklahoma In The 1980s
Feb 25, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part three of our time-traveling adventure takes us to my hometown (Blackwell, OK) and the mud events there. I believe most of these were put on by the...
Merrill Ice Drags Coverage: Huge Horsepower, Spikes, And Hot Rods On A Frozen Lake
Feb 25, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – As a Midwesterner, I’ve always hated winter. Those vile white flurries mean salted roads and the end of gearhead fun; no more cruising, no more racing,...
The Edelbrock Big Carb Deal Is BACK! Buy A Carb and Get and Air Cleaner Plus A Fender Cover FREE!
Feb 25, 2016Brian LohnesSponsor News
You know a promotional offer is pretty great when a company has been able to offer it to customers for nearly a decade. That’s the case with the Edelbrock “Big Carb Deal” which...
