Cruise Coverage: The Roanoke Pit Stop Cruise-In Is A Blast and We Were There
Aug 26, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Every month during the warm season, Pit Stop Cruise-in is one of the free local car shows in Roanoke VA. This one takes place every third Saturday from 5...
This International 4300 Could Be The Ultimate Friends And Car Hauler
Aug 26, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
Or it could be the greatest BangShift mobile command and party center! This International 4300 is one bad ass crew hauler, with all the storage in the world. We can think of all kinds of cool things...
Legends: The Series – Jungle Pam Tells The Story Of Life On The Road With Jungle Jim
Aug 26, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This is the story that so many people in the world of drag racing have longed to hear. This is the story of Jungle Jim as told by Jungle Pam. It is honest, it is raw, it is informative and at the end...
Burnouts, Baby! Tire Frying, Smoke Making, Fun At Thornhill Dragway
Aug 26, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Burnouts. We all enjoy either watching them or doing them. This gallery is made up of photos from the tradition that ranges from just cleaning the...
The Parting Shift: Ride In An Aussie V8 SuperCar Up The Goodwood Driveway Course
Aug 26, 2016Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a bucket list event for virtually every gearhead on the planet and the reason is pretty simple. You can see cars from just about every era, country, and style of...
It’s Over: Steve Kinser Announces He’s Done Racing Sprint Cars After Lebanon Valley NY Race
Aug 25, 2016Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
At 62 years old the greatest sprint car racer who ever lived has decided that he’s had enough. After winning more than 600 feature races, claiming the Knoxville Nationals title a dozen times,...
The Farmington Quick 8 Reunion Was Awesome And We Were There! Door Slammer Perfection
Aug 25, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Benoit Pigeon) – The Farmington Quick 8 Reunion is a special event with great heritage when it comes to the roots of pro modified. Once a year, retired and active racers...
Barnstormin’: All The Records Great And Small
Aug 25, 2016Brian LohnesBarnstormin'
I write this as I am about to hit the sack and get a night’s sleep before heading off to the NMCA World Street Finals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. We’re...
Drag Racing Action Gallery: Big Fun At Old School Thornhill Dragway
Aug 25, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We’re back at Thornhill Dragway, possibly THE oldest continuously-operated track in the country, for a night of nostalgia cars and regular brackets. This...
It’s Udder Insanity When Cows Interrupt This 2014 Canadian Rally Stage
Aug 25, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
Rally drivers compete with a lot of obstacles while pushing their cars hard on some of the world’s most challenging racing conditions. Road conditions vary greatly across the miles of a given stage...
Flowtech Releases Upright Headers For Mud, Demo Derby, and Pulling Action
Aug 25, 2016Brian LohnesNew Products, Sponsor News
If there has ever been a more BangShift approved product released by a high performance aftermarket company, we’re not sure what it is. While you are looking at the new upright header offerings...
Endurance Racing At Brooklands in 1931 Makes the Daytona 500 Look Like a Picnic
Aug 25, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
Long before the first 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first 24-hour race was held at Brooklands in England in 1907. The famous almost-oval hosted several more full-day races, though later iterations were...
Even In a Commercial, A Running Diesel Oldsmobile Is Kind Of Amazing
Aug 25, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
As its name suggests, the Malaise Era was a truly miserable period of American car manufacturing. The last 1970s and early 1980s found carmakers struggling to produce fuel economy in line with...
Project BSx: Where We Try To Keep A Nova From Becoming A Future Barn Find
Aug 24, 2016Brian LohnesApex Project Cars, BangShift APEX
(Words and photos by John Ulazek) – Introducing Project BSx. While we batted around a lot of ridiculous names for this project we are going to keep it simple, BangShift X-body gives us BSX.For...
