2016 Rumblers Cruise To The End Of The Line Coverage – These Cars Rule
Sep 28, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Words and photos by Anthony Festa) – The Rumblers have been hosting their party in Brooklyn for 20 years now, and while the days of partying under the BQE are gone, they’ve relocated...
This SpaceX Video Of How Their Proposed Interplanetary Transport System Will Work Is Amazing
Sep 28, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
With everything negative going on in the world today it is very easy to lose sight on the awesome stuff that is happening. In the greatest example of how humanity runs the gamut from mouth breathing...
Question Of The Day: How Would You Build This Dirt-Cheap Mercury Mountaineer?
Sep 28, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, FORD, TRUCKS
Hot rodding is all about taking what is old and unloved, the throwaways of the automotive world, and turning them into something that is awesome, performs better than even the factory could have...
More Sweet Drag Week 2016 Photos From Norwalk – Summit Motorsports Park Was Jamming!
Sep 28, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Here’s some inside baseball for you. On the night before the last day of Drag Week 2005 I sat at a table with Freiburger, Wes Allison, Rob Kinnan, and maybe...
One Of 25 With Overdrive: Take A Ride In A BMW-Powered, Original Paint 1958 AC Aceca!
Sep 28, 2016Bryan McTaggartVideos
Even before you read these words, you saw “1958 AC…” and immediately looked at the car to see if it looked anything like an AC Cobra, didn’t you? Well, let’s get kind of...
Dajiban! Another Great Look at the World of Dodge Race Vans in Japan
Sep 28, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Dodge Ram vans don’t really stand out in this country. Most have been worn down to the nub and the custom vanning scene, while enjoying a resurgence, isn’t as keen on the old Mopar haulers as...
Big Luxurious Bomber: This Twin-Turbocharged HSV Grange Is Beastly!
Sep 28, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The HSV Grange is a wicked-up Holden Caprice. Think of it like a Chrysler SRT-8, or a BMW M5: the power is part of the equation, at least equally with the luxury, in a large car. It’s not an...
Get a Close Look at This 200 MPH Volkswagen-Powered Lakester
Sep 28, 2016Eric Rood1320 Cars Without Doors Feature, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Most people don’t put “Volkswagen Jetta” and “200 mph” in the same pattern of thoughts, but Bonneville has a way of mashing together two unlikely things. We should say, of course, that Dan...
Big Cam Cummins And Enough Attitude For Everybody: This Hot Rodded Peterbilt Is Bitchin’!
Sep 28, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
Where do old semi tractors go when they die? If they are lucky, they get handed down through a series of owners before unceremoniously winding up at the back of a field somewhere as the old truck...
Chris Harris Loves the Viper ACR and You Should, Too
Sep 28, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
“The man from America I met said, ‘You can’t slide that car,’” Chris Harris quips before tossing the bright blue Dodge Viper ACR sideways on the Top Gear test track. I’m about 99 percent...
The One Man Railroad – A Look Back At The Tiny, Long Running Illinois Midland Line
Sep 27, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Truck News
(By Greg Rourke) – Shortline railroads are a necessary part of moving goods across our great land. Before highways the big railroads built branches and sidings to virtually any business that...
Race Of Gentlemen East 2016 – History Once Again Rumbles To Life On The Jersey Shore
Sep 27, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Anthony Festa) – On June 4th and 5th, racing came back once again to the shores of Wildwood, NJ. Brought to you by the Oilers CC and Stultz & Green, The Race of...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2016 Photos: Images From A Fun and Fast Day At Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park
Sep 27, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – It was great to look down from the announcing booth at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park and see pals Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer shooting photos and enjoying...
Question Of The Day: Dodge Charger Ute…Would You Own One?
Sep 27, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Smyth Performance has one mission, it seems: take ordinary, everyday cars and convert them into utes. Not cars that could have been utes, like a Pontiac G8, for instance, but cars that were never...
