Is this super-rare Ford GT road racer worth almost a million bucks?
May 11, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
Much ado has been made this year about Ford’s return to racing at Le Mans with the new GT, but it’s perhaps a less-well-known fact that Ford GTs have raced at Le Mans in the last decade and a...
46th Annual Antique Nationals Fires Up At Auto Club Fontana Drags!
May 10, 2016Darr Hawthorne1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The Antique Nationals began decades ago; it was an event specifically to celebrate 4-cylinder powered hot rods at a time when the memory of those...
More Coverage From The 2016 Redneck Rumble! Rods, Rats, And Rumbling Eights Aplenty!
May 10, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
There is nothing like hearing an Oldsmobile engine with a huge cam prowling at near-idle, with the occasional blip of the throttle (and resulting bark of protest from the tires) to break up the quiet...
Stop Guessing: Racepak Continues With Their Series Talking About Data Loggers – Watch Here
May 10, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Engine Tech, 1320 Tech Story, BangShift 1320, Sponsor News
Here’s a trio of videos that could change the way you go racing. Why? Racepak has embarked on a comprehensive series of videos that start at ground level and explain what data loggers do, how...
BangShift Goes Racing! Transforming A Cheap Street Car Into A 24 Hours of Lemons Racer!
May 10, 2016Tony SestitoBangShift APEX, BangShift News, Project Cars
Welcome to Bangshift Goes Racing! This is a multi-part series that gives a look into choosing, building, and racing a car on the cheap. Here, you’ll see the misadventures of my friends and I as we...
Check This Thing Out: The Nocturnal Motorworks Coyote! Nissan Power, 1,001 Pounds, And Tail-Happy!
May 10, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
We could tell you who we could blame for the recent run of tube-frame, engine-seats-rollbar cars that have started popping up like weeds around the country, but the story of the Vette-Kart is on...
What Would It Look Like If Ford Built A No-Rules Test Mule? Jay Leno Takes A Look At Steve Strope’s 1967 Ford Fairlane!
May 10, 2016Bryan McTaggartCAR FEATURES, FORD, Videos
In the mid-1960s, Ford and Chrysler were at war, period. GM might have been working the field too, but on the banked NASCAR tracks and on the NHRA drags trips, the Blue Oval boys and the gang from...
Top Fuel With Doors? Scott Palmer Is Going To Give It A Shot At Sikeston! Video of Nitro With Doors!
May 10, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
NHRA top fuel racer, top fuel hyrdroplane racer, and all around bad ass Scott Palmer will be bringing a very unique brand of nitro racing to Jeffers Motorsports Park when he’ll make test hits...
Unhinged: The Most Exotic Thing I’ve Ever Spun A Wrench On, A Lancia Scorpion
May 10, 2016Bryan McTaggartCAR FEATURES, Unhinged, Videos
(Lead photo: Hemmings) It’s safe to say that most “exotic” cars are safely kept away from me in some form or another. I’ll probably never own a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, let...
Curb Feeler: Watch This Camaro Climb A Curb And Mow The Grass At Speed – Yikes!
May 10, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
It is not very often we talk about a drag car getting off into the weeds during a run anymore but that’s because drag strips have all but eliminated that possibility. There was a time way back...
eBay Find: This 1964 Mercury Park Lane Is Cool But The Four Speed And SOHC Make It The Coolest!
May 10, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
While loads of people really geek for the 1964-1972 era muscle cars that really defined the era, I am more enamored with the 1964 and down stuff going down into the late 1950s. There were some really...
Air Muscle: Watch a classic helicopter do some low-margin heavy lifting among the high-rises of downtown Chicago
May 10, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL, XL Videos
During a recent weekend trip in Chicago, I heard the tell-tale drumbeat of helicopter rotors early on a Saturday morning. It was not entirely out of the ordinary, though, since helicopters fly tours...
Major Imapct Video: Touring car piledrives track barriers after a tire failure at Spa
May 10, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
In just his third weekend racing in the TCR International Series, Attila Tassi—who has an excellent racing name, we might add—found out the hard way the problems that a front-tire puncture can...
Highway Creepers Car Show 2016: Our Last Blast Of Edsels, Rat Rods, and Muscle!
May 09, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – We have to thank our pal and OG BangShifter Scott Liggett for his awesome torrent of photos from the 2016 Highway Creepers Car Show that was held in Nebraska...
