The Gas Hopper! This 1961 Falcon Ranchero Gasser Is Completely Awesome And For Sale!
May 09, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
Oh wow. That’s exactly what we said when we first saw this hunk of magical goodness on the pages of eBay. What you are looking at is a 1961 Falcon gasser that is called the Gas Hopper. The car...
Video and Time Slip: Tom Bailey Takes Sick Seconds 2.0 To A 3.985/189 Eight Mile – A Five Coming Soon?
May 09, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
For the first time since it has been on the track Sick Seconds 2.0 has traversed the eighth mile in less than four seconds. Yes, Tom Bailey won Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week in 2015 and he did it with...
Gasser Video Perfection: Take A Look At The Recent Southeast Gassers Race At Greer Dragway In South Carolina
May 09, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
A couple of weekends ago, the awesome Southeast Gassers group led by Quain Stott brought their period correct method of gasser drag racing to the very period correct race track at Greer Dragway in...
Want To Buy The Worst Living Buick Regal T-Type In America? We Think We Found It!
May 09, 2016Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – On a small local car lot this morning I spotted this gem. This might be the worst Buick Regal T Type left on the planet. I’m far from a Buick...
Ford GT wrecks hard at Spa, second car squeaks out second GT podium in a week
May 09, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
“It was the [second-]best of times, it was the worst of times…” [This has been your daily serving of “Boring Platitudes as Story leads.] So goes the saga of a two-car team in endurance...
HUGE NEWS: Stock And Super Stock Unleashed At 2016 Chevrolet Performance NHRA US Nationals – Factoring SHUT OFF!
May 09, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320
The NHRA has announced that it will suspend the Automatic Horsepower Factoring System for the 2016 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals in the stock and super stock categories. This is huge news...
This Australian turbo-rotary hillclimb car is one of the most maniacal creations in any hemisphere
May 09, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
A couple years ago, a 24 Hours of LeMons racer and I talked about the potential to turn an old no-wing formula car into wicked hillclimb car with the addition of some LeMons-ingenuity aero and a...
Happy Mother’s Day From All Of Us At BangShift.com!
May 08, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
She was there when you first figured out that motion was better than sitting still all day long. She cringed the first time you went by, riding your bike without using the handlebars, and was waiting...
Holy Mother of Airbrushing: Is This GMC S-15 Lowrider A Classic Or Just An Old Trend Throwback?
May 08, 2016Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, TRUCKS
I’m all but convinced that I’ve seen this 1987 GMC S-15 in a magazine as a feature story in one of the hundreds of magazines I flipped through years ago. I couldn’t tell you if it...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Tattling Fords, Lamborghini Taxi, And More!
May 08, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
The April showers brought the May flowers, and with it, the running noses, the sneezing, and all of the other joys of allergy season. At least the weather is nice and all of the good car events are...
Our First Round Of Photos From The 2016 Redneck Rumble In Lebanon, Tennessee! Check Out The Neat Machinery That Rolled Out For The Occasion!
May 08, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery
“The Redneck Rumble is the South’s biggest baddest hot rod, custom car and rat rod show, swap meet and lifestyle show, plus demolition derby and live music.” Do we really need any...
Your Money Came Up A Little Short: Watch The “Chasing Paper” Mega Truck Go For A Roll!
May 08, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
If there is one thing we’ve ever learned from watching vehicles jump, it’s that you don’t want to come up short on the landing ramp. If the back wheels catch the lip of something,...
Morning Symphony: The Bugatti Chiron In All Of It’s 1,479 Horsepower Glory
May 08, 2016Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
Let’s get the problems out of the way now: it redefines “expensive automobile”, will become either a testbed for companies or playthings for the stupidly rich, and out of the...
