The Monaro From Hell: Watch As The FEAR Holden Monaro Turns Into A Sociopathic Flamethrower At Burnout Boss!
Nov 16, 2016Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
For many people, watching an Australian burnout contest elicits some rather disdainful thoughts: the waste of a perfectly good car, perfectly good tires, and perfectly good fuel all for what amounts...
Watching This 1980 AMC Eagle Play In The Snow Is The BangShift Way Of Reminding You Winter Is Almost Here!
Nov 16, 2016Bryan McTaggartAMC, MISC, Videos
It’s official: any vestige of summer is long gone. The leaves are coming down like rain around BangShift Mid-West, the weather has taken a turn for the cooler, the sunset can be seen at a...
Big Mover: This 1978 Ford LTD II Is Encouraging Us In Bad Ways…
Nov 16, 2016Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
It’s a strange phenomenon: Whenever I see slot mags on a mid-1970s Ford, the inner stunt driver starts going psychotic. And what’s even stranger is that voice of reason, the one that...
The Final Thrash: Time-Lapse Videos Of The Finishing Touches Of Finnegan’s Drag Boat!
Nov 16, 2016Bryan McTaggartVideos
Every year, when it’s getting close to the first week in November, you’ll start to hear a lot of talk about “the SEMA crunch”. What it means is that for the past year or so, a...
Never Meet Your Heroes: Regular Car Reviews Gets To Drive The “Defiance” Dodge Charger!
Nov 16, 2016Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, MOPAR, Videos
The only reason I know of the video game “Defiance” or the television show that followed is this one car. It looks exactly as it’s supposed to: a post-apocalyptic monster of a...
Begging To Be Romped On: This Five-Speed, 5.4-Swapped Ford Crown Victoria Is The Barge Of Our Dreams!
Nov 16, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, FORD
The Ford Panther platform has been dead for five years now, and most people only acknowledge it’s loss when they realized that they needed to start memorizing another set of headlights to...
A 500 Horsepower, V8 Prius Might be the Only Acceptable Prius
Nov 15, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
The Toyota Prius draws the derision of racing and auto enthusiasts everywhere and the hybrid certainly has its share of stereotypes. However, there are at least a couple of Priuses (Prii?) that...
Fire Is No Joke: Gary Sheehan Recounts the Frightening Seconds During Which His Race Car Was On Fire
Nov 15, 2016Eric RoodApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
Fire. You’d be hard-pressed to find a word that frightens race car drivers more. United States Touring Car Championship competitor Gary Sheehan found that out November 12 during the final USTCC...
Morning Symphony: Leave It To An Australian To Out-Burnout An Australian
Nov 15, 2016Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Some people like to rise gently with the sun, starting the day off calmly. Then there’s those who have their alarm set to the song of choice that kicks off like a bomb blast and greet the world...
Street Car Super Nats 2015 Highlight: Mustang Spins Three Times At SCSN And Doesn’t Hit ANYTHING!
Nov 15, 2016Chad Reynolds1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos
Seeing cars spin, or crash, at a drag strip isn’t anything new. But what this Mustang does is beyond description. You have to watch this. Not only does this car pull the wheels at the hit, and...
Rough Start: This 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne Is The Cheapest Of The Cheap!
Nov 15, 2016Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find
If you had the money and all the time in the world to go hunting for the perfect project car, something tells me that nearly ten out of ten times, you’d head straight for the Southwest....
If You’re Looking For An Oil Pan For Your Project, Moroso Performance Products Had New Models On Display At SEMA 2016!
Nov 15, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, New Products, Sponsor News
SEMA may be full of flashy rides, loud music and booth babes, but the real reason for the show even existing in the first place was to bring the automotive aftermarket together to showcase new parts...
Unhinged: The Blur Of The Last Month (or, Where The Hell Did The Last Three Weeks Go?)
Nov 15, 2016Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
For what feels like the first time in a month, I’m at home working at my desk. I’ve only been home for about four hours now…and I’m still kind of weirded out that I’m...
One Cadillac, Two Engines, And “Fear And Loathing” Clothes. This Episode Of Dirt Every Day Can Only End Well…
Nov 15, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, Videos, XL Videos
When they sold new in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cadillac Eldorados were the pinnacle of “you made it” automobiles. Between an Eldorado and an Lincoln Continental Mark coupe, these...
