Touring Car Masters: Watch Classic Muscle Cars Race at Bathurst in Australia
Oct 12, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
Australia’s Mount Panorama Circuit is one of the most epic race circuits in the whole world and while we love V8 Supercars’ epic Bathurst 1000-kilometer race there, there’s nothing quite as...
Money No Object: This Right-Hand Drive Converted 1968 Ford Mustang Is The Right Kind Of Wrong!
Oct 12, 2016Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
Certain things just stick with me, one of which is that I want to own a right-hand drive car at some point. Doesn’t matter what kind, I just want to drive one around if only to satisfy my...
They Are Racing On The Salt….In Bolivia….At 13,000ft – We’re Not Kidding – Uyuni Salt Flats
Oct 12, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Raise your hand if you knew that the world’s largest salt flat was in Bolivia! As we suspected, not that many hands came up. To be truthful, until recently ours would not have been up either...
Morning Symphony: High-End Hillclimbing From Slovenia – For Better Or For Worse!
Oct 12, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
European hill climbing is pretty underrated, if you ask us. Take any road that goes uphill that presents enough corners to be interesting to both drivers and spectators, occasionally put some objects...
Racepak Just Released One Of The Coolest Tractor Pull Videos We Have Seen In A While – The Grant County Tractor Pull
Oct 12, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
We spend more time than most mainstream automotive media websites talking about, championing, and highlighting the sport of tractor pulling around here. Why? Well firstly is because we dig it,...
The Great White Whale: This 1973 Cadillac Eldorado Is Cruising Peruvian Boulevards!
Oct 12, 2016Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, CAR FEATURES, Videos
Photos don’t do the 1970s Cadillac Eldorados justice…they are freaking massive. Over eighteen feet long, six and a half feet wide, rocking 500 cubic inches of front-driven...
Watch David Barton Run The Quickest Stock Run In History At Maple Grove – 8.07!
Oct 12, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The hunt for the 7-second zone in stock eliminator is not just on, it is like nuclear war out there and last weekend the battle zone was Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pennsylvania. The players were...
Would You Rather, The Two Grand Edition: Would You Go For The Firebird Or The Charger R/T?
Oct 12, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find, MOPAR
Let’s scale the Rough Start budget down to around two thousand dollars for a minute. What can that buy you? 1980s beater nobody cares about…a ragged-out Fox Mustang…beat-up...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Fuel Additives And Rear-End Lube, Now With New Grape Scent!
Oct 12, 2016Bryan McTaggartUPCG
For every part and piece that is in the store that qualifies as “useful”, there are probably five items that are simply crap. Stickers, license plate frames, Tweety Bird floor mats, the...
This 1980 International Scout Traveler Is Long On Wheelbase, Looks, and Cool – Just Short On Power
Oct 12, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
There’s no denying the coolness of International Scouts. These tough as nails machines were made for decades and while they morphed and changed over the years, they were all rooted in...
Vintage Drag Video: 8MM Footage From Lions and Other Strips Circa 1964 – KS Pittman, the 554 Coupe and More!
Oct 11, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We dug this one up off of YouTube and it is a great time capsule of drag racing circa 1964 in California. In this video you’ll see lots of great dragster runs and some historical cars to boot....
The Story Of The Aussie Drag Week Chevelle! Twin Turbos Hanging Out In The Breeze And 8-Second Slips!
Oct 11, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The Aussie Drag Week Chevelle came onto the scene in 2015 as one of the most amazing stories of the event. A couple of guys from Australia came to the US, bought the crummiest looking Chevelle in the...
Question Of The Day: Do You Believe That There Will Be An Entire Generation Of Cars That Will Never Become “Collectable”?
Oct 11, 2016Bryan McTaggartAMC, BangShift Question Of The Day??, eBay Find
Behold, the 1986 American Motors Eagle wagon. The run-down is pretty typical for a late-build Eagle: 4.2L inline-six, automatic transmission, just about every possible option that AMC could hurl at...
