NASCAR Limits Number of Xfinity and Truck Races for Sprint Cup Regulars
Oct 28, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
NASCAR announced Wednesday that it was placing limits on the number of races in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series that Sprint Cup veterans can run, starting in 2017. Effective next season,...
Glorious Overkill: Meet The Whispering Giant – This Is What 11,560 Ft/Lbs Of Torque Can Do!
Oct 28, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
You would have thought that having multiple blown alcohol-fueled Hemis attached to one Unlimited pulling tractor would have been enough, right? One Top Fueler’s engine is a study in mechanical...
The 908’s Flat-8 Engine Might Make a Porsche Believer Out of You
Oct 28, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
Classic Porsches: They’re like a weird cult that you either join or you don’t. I tend toward the “don’t” side of things more often than not, but some of the company’s early purpose-built...
Gallery: More Street Rods, Hot Rods, and Memories From A Car Show Filled Summer
Oct 27, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(By Doug Gregory) – Didn’t see a lot of cars this year riding high. There were some straight-axle types with a nose-high attitude, but not as many as I’ve seen in previous years. Lots...
Badass Aviator Bob Hoover Has Passed Away at 94
Oct 27, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
Bob Hoover might not be a household name in the way that Charles Lindbergh or Chuck Yeager has become in the world of aviation, but many will tell you that Hoover was the greatest who ever lived. And...
Project Angry Grandpa: The BFNY Performance Two-Day Thrash
Oct 27, 2016Bryan McTaggartAngry Grandpa Chrysler, BangShift Projects
The deed is done. After 124,400 miles of faithful service in mostly stock form, Angry Grandpa, our in-house 2006 Chrysler 300C project car, has finally moved on to a higher level. I wasn’t...
SEMA 2016: Will The Steel Bodied 1967 Buick Street Funny Car From SEMA 2015 Be Topped?
Oct 27, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320
(Editor’s note: As the 2016 SEMA show is approaching with the speed of an asteroid coming for the Earth, we’re going to look back at 2015 over the next couple of days to show you our...
Race Everything! The Street Eliminator UK Has Some Quality Oddballs
Oct 27, 2016Eric Rood1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The biggest place to go drag racing in the United Kingdom is the old air base-turned drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway. With a fairly bustling racing scene, that makes for a fairly packed schedule...
2016 Gran Turismo Awards Registration Is Open! Will Your Car Be Immortalized In The Iconic Game?
Oct 27, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift News
Registration for the 2016 Gran Turismo Awards is open right now and if you are showing, building, or helping finish a car for SEMA 2016 then you need to throw your hat into the ring and perhaps see...
SEMA 2016: One Of The Cars We Can’t Wait To See On The Floor, “The Underdog” Ford Maverick: EcoBoost Power, Built By High Schoolers!
Oct 27, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, FORD
One car that unanimously dropped jaws at SEMA last year was “FuguZ”, Sung Kang’s 1973 Datsun 240Z. It was damn hard to not find something to like about the car that wasn’t...
The Trailer For 24 Hour War Has Us Dying To See This Killer Looking Documentary
Oct 27, 2016Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
It is one of the greatest American racing triumphs ever. It was a battle of huge budgets, huge egos, and huge personalities. It was a fight between Italy and the USA, it was a fight between...
This V8 Utes Pile-up Bent Lots of Sheet Metal and Blocked the Entire Track
Oct 26, 2016Eric RoodApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
We showed you a spectacular Stadium Super Trucks crash from Surfers Paradise last weekend, but the V8 Utes Series was not content to be upstaged by Robby Gordon’s big trucks. In the weekend’s...
Your Vintage Party Bus Project Awaits on CraigsList: A 1962 Checker Aerobus
Oct 26, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
California’s Inland Empire CraigsList is always chock full of desert-preserved classics. The Inland Empire is basically the eastern edge of the Los Angeles metro area and if you’re from the...
Weirdest Drag Car We Have Ever Found: A 1958 NSU Sport Prinz With An N/A Buick V6?!
Oct 26, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
The NSU Prinz was manufactured between 1958 and 1968 over in Germany. 20,000 of them (give or take) were sold during that decade. We are guessing a very small percentage of those cars traveled to...
