Question Of The Day: Have You Started To Plan Out Your Winter Projects Yet?
Sep 02, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
Can someone please explain to me when, exactly, September 1st became Pumpkin Spice Everything Day? The wife and I just did our grocery shopping and we weren’t just assaulted with everything...
Rough Start: This 1972 Ford F-100 Needs…Nothing More Than A New Home!
Sep 02, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, FORD, TRUCKS
Ok, the Rough Start schtick is pretty much set in stone: find something on Craigslist that might be BangShift-worthy…sometimes not…and proceed to explain in so many words just how far you...
2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: Our Final Gallery From The World’s Largest One-Day Auto Event!
Sep 02, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
I saw one part of Woodward Avenue: the intersection of Woodward and Orchard Park in Pontiac, just north of the Amtrak station. That’s it. I did not see Detroit. I did not see the eight-lane...
This 1985 Bitter SC 3.9L Needs To Be Built, But How Would You Do It?
Sep 02, 2016Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, OTHER
Bitter Cars. Doesn’t sound much like a manufacturer, sounds more like a punchline to a joke long forgotten. But Erich Bitter Automobil GmbH exists (more or less) and really, isn’t so much...
No Cheese With This Whine: The Blower On This Top Diesel Engine Sounds Extra Nasty
Sep 02, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL, XL Videos
Not all superchargers are created equal and when you’ve got your blower sitting atop a diesel drag-racing engine, you really ought to make sure that it sounds capable of reversing the earth’s...
Dare To Be Different In The Dirt: Check Out This Mud Dragging Bradley GT!
Sep 02, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
Between the mid-1960s and the point in the late 1970s when the drugs ran out, there were a ton of kit cars made, most of which seemed adapted to giving the Volkswagen Beetle a look that didn’t...
Hate it or Louvre It: This 1978 Dodge Aspen Super Coupe Checks All the Malaise Era Boxes
Sep 02, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
The life of Chrysler’s F-Body was short-lived. With emissions and fuel consumption pressures changing the nature of the auto industry in the mid-to-late 1970s, Chrysler downsized from the...
Money No Object: This 1983 Ford Ranger Prerunner Only Exists To Have A Blast In!
Sep 02, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Craigslist Find, FORD, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
A prerunner truck…a true pre runner, not some hacked-up truck with fiberglass panels…only serves two purposes: it’s a riot of a four-wheeled toy and, as far as I’m concerned...
Check Out This Huge Compilation of V8 Supercars Incidents From the Series’ Endurance Races
Sep 02, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
Australia’s Virgin (formerly V8) Supercars Championship is just about to head into its annual three-race Pirtek Endurance Cup, a trio of races that tests the patience of not just the regular...
Watch Donovan Stott Make The Drag Racing Save Of The Year In His White Trash Gasser!
Sep 01, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
When it comes to popular drag racing stuff these days, the Southeast Gassers are among the top draws in the country. The group founded by Quain Stott and stacked up with awesome period correct...
We Can’t Get Enough Of The Twin-Turbo Allison V12 In This Hydroplane
Sep 01, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL, XL Videos
While the majority of the hydroplanes in H1 Unlimited have installed helicopter turbines to propel their boats more than 200 mph, a few hold-outs have hung onto piston engines. Go 3 Racing from...
This Airliner Takeoff From the 1990s Teeters On the Brink of Disaster
Sep 01, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL, XL Videos
For an airline pilot, most days see at least a couple of a takeoff and landing cycles. Nearly all of them are routine and fade to memory, but we’re guessing the pilots on this Continental Airlines...
This Solid Axle Swap GMC Safari Van Is Begging To Be Your Bugout Vehicle
Sep 01, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find
I know this is going to sound sick, but there is something about the Chevy Astro Van, and their brother the GMC Safari Van, that I dig. Laid out on air ride they are cool, and now that I’ve...
Watch Georgina Buckley Suffer A Massive Stuck Throttle Wreck At The NMCA World Street Finals
Sep 01, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
There are few things more terrifying in the world of racing than a throttle that’s hung open at the end of the race. Unfortunately NMCA racer Georgina Buckley experienced this situation at the...
