Get up close and personal with Randy Ball’s MiG-17; this walkaround is a must for plane geeks
May 24, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL
When the Cold War ended, a number of Soviet Bloc countries liquidated their air force inventories, particularly of older-spec planes, while they made room for more Western-built planes. The upshot of...
Morning Symphony: Beating On New Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s around the Nurburgring Was Never Mentioned At Career Day
May 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, CHEVY
So far, I haven’t worked one single job that would line up with what my guidance counselor told me I’d wind up becoming. To be fair, most of the jobs I’ve had didn’t line up...
152 Miles An Hour At Indy, Semi-Autonomously – Watch As Sam Schmidt Run Indy Using Only His Eyes And Breath!
May 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, CHEVY
152 miles an hour around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2016 should register much of a reaction normally, but in the case of this black Corvette Z06, it’s a milestone. Driving the car is...
Anger: BLM, Racers, Governmental Groups Meet To Discuss State Of Salt Flats – No Direction Or Answers Yet
May 24, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Last week a summit of sorts was held in Utah to discuss the condition and future of the Bonneville Salt Flats, not just for racing but as an entity. People from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),...
It’s Italian, Funky And Set Up For Long-Distance Roaming – Jay Leno’s Freshly-Restored 1969 Lamborghini Espada Is Great!
May 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartCAR FEATURES, Videos
From the front, it looks lie a big-boy Mustang, complete with NACA ducts and one thin chrome bar that thinks it’s a bumper. From the rear, you get hints Honda CRX. No, really…you have a...
This 1954 Dodge C-Series Is Classic In All Of The Right Senses – Fat Fenders, Wood Bed, And A Warmed-Up DeSoto Hemi!
May 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
You don’t see a lot of 1950s Dodge trucks, do you? You can find Ford F-1s, you can find Chevrolets and GMCs all day long, but finding a Dodge is difficult…even if all you’re...
Want The Hardest Dream Job Known To Man? Cruz Pedregon Needs A Crew Guy!
May 23, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
(Photo: PedregonRacing.com) – If you have dreamed about running away from home and joining the circus known as professional drag racing, here’s your shot. Cruz Pedregon is looking for a...
Watch An AMX Super Stocker Rip Off A 300-Foot Wheelie – No Sissy Sticks For This Guy!
May 23, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Gharrett Ghezzi’s AMX super stocker is of the neatest cars I get to see in my announcing travels across the country. The thing is painted up in the factory AMC racing colors with that...
Tim Wilkerson Suffers Strange Crash During NHRA Kansas Nationals Eliminations
May 23, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Tim Wilkerson was chewing his way through eliminations on Sunday at the NHRA Kansas nationals when disaster struck and he suffered one of the strangest funny car crashes we have ever seen. We were at...
Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back
May 23, 2016Bryan McTaggartAngry Grandpa Chrysler, Apex Project Cars, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift Projects
I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...
James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track
May 23, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Just a year after watching the Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed, James Hinchcliffe has penned the first chapter of a fairy tale comeback story with by claiming the 2016 Indy 500 pole. He was the...
CraigsList: The World’s Nicest Chevette Scooter Is Up For Sale
May 22, 2016Eric RoodApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
There’s no point in sugar-coating this: The Chevette was a miserable car from a miserable era of American motoring. The 1973 gas shortage had sent automakers into a panic and Chevy had...
Somehow everybody survived this massive airborne Formula 3 wreck in Austria
May 22, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
If there’s anything to take away from this absolutely brutal crash in the European Formula 3 Championship last weekend, it’s that modern safety gear is entirely remarkable. Chinese driver Zhi...
Unhinged: Will Anything The Young Guns Do Ever Be Right In The Eyes Of The “True Gearhead”?
May 22, 2016Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
I have a hypothetical situation for you to think about. Don’t immediately answer it, just ponder it for a minute: At whatever meet up, or race, or show, or whatever you do that involves cars...
