Say “VTEC” Again, I Dare You: Jeff Lutz, Jr.’s Wicked Twin-Turbo Small-Block Honda Is One Mean Little Bastard!
Oct 25, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I have no shame in admitting it: Any and every Honda that claims to be wicked and fast has to prove itself to me before I nod my head in agreement. Case in point: during a test-and-tune night, a...
Watch Jay Payne Wipe Out The Tree In A Funny Car At Las Vegas Circa 2015
Oct 25, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
As I’ll be spending the better part of a month in and around the greater Las Vegas area starting on Wednesday, I have been thinking of some entertaining stuff that has happened at The Strip...
Answering The Call Of The Blower With A 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!
Oct 25, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, eBay Find
Normally, this is where I’d put some cheesy line about “Autumn is blower season”, but seriously…blower cars don’t have a season unless you live in a place where you risk...
Watch This Ferrari’s Championship Hopes Turn Into a Pile of Broken Carbon Fiber
Oct 25, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
It’s been an up-and-down year for JMW Motorsports. The British sports car team have regularly competed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for several years but were denied an entry to Le Mans this year....
BangShifty Open House Action! Street Machinery Opened Its Doors And Hot Rodders Kicked ‘Em Down
Oct 24, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows
(Words – Mike Brooks – Photos – Brooks, Jose Ferrer) – For more than 24 years, Street Machinery in Euclid, Ohio has been in the custom and hot rod business. Owner Boris...
Mo’ Muscle! Check Out These Awesome Photos Of Muscle Cars On The Prowl
Oct 24, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More muscle-car era stuff and extras along with more photography geekness. Astute observers of my articles will note that I’ve been increasingly using...
Watch These Down Under Stadium Super Trucks Drivers End Up Upside-Down
Oct 24, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL, XL Videos
Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks series has found a home away from home with several races in Australia. The brutish off-road trucks look positively absurd navigating any temporary street...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Scrapple Lite!
Oct 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Look, we know that you belly up to the table wanting a great big heapin’ serving of the most middle-of-the-road, kind of interesting news we can dig up, and we’re sorry to say that this...
Moroso Releases Killer New Rear Sump Swap Oil Pan For LT Series Engines
Oct 24, 2016Brian LohnesNew Products, Sponsor News
The current generation of GM LT-engines has already grown to be very popular with hot rodders and the aftermarket. The LT has many of the elements that made the LS series so popular and they are...
Go Long With This Unique And Cool 1940 Ford Flower Car – Ever Seen One Before?
Oct 24, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
We have seen lots of flower cars here at BangShift over the years and most of them have been of the type you’d expect. Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other big cars. It makes sense that those would...
Chad and Daphne Could Use Your Help – Here’s The Situation And It Is Serious
Oct 24, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift News
When friends are having trouble or are facing a fight, we circle the wagons. Hot rodders, car guys, gearhead, petrolheads, and grease monkeys all protect their own. They throw in when help is needed...
The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!
Oct 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, HISTORIC, Videos
Until I actually got to Bowling Green, I wasn’t aware that an actual 1983 Chevrolet Corvette actually existed. Seriously, I didn’t. I knew about the aborted test run of cars, and I knew...
Paralympic Gold Medalist Alex Zanardi Takes Victory in His Return to Racing
Oct 24, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
Just a bit more than 15 years ago, Alex Zanardi’s open-wheel racing career ended at the Lausitzring in Germany in one of racing’s most horrifying crashes. That 2001 wreck took Zanardi’s legs...
Cortina Driver Gives a Quick Lesson On How to Avoid a Costly Vintage Racing Accident
Oct 23, 2016Eric RoodBangShift News
In the 1960s, Lotus Cortinas were racing everywhere. In the early years of the British Saloon Car Championships, the lythe little Lotus-tuned Fords diced with classic Minis and hulking American Ford...
