This 1975 Ford Falcon XB Is Finished, In The States And Ready To Find A New Home!
Nov 15, 2016Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
Not going to make a Mad Max reference. Not going to re-hash the story of the pilot I knew who drove an XB Fairmont to work every day. Not even going to put out how important this car was to Ford...
Kiwis Race Muscle Cars, Too: New Zealand’s Classics-Racing Series is as Fantastic as Any
Nov 14, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
One of the great things about the muscle-car era Down Under is that it really carried on in the late 1970s while the United States suffered through the Malaise Era. As a result, the Australian Holden...
Check Out These Ford Escorts and Sierras Racing at Hal Far in Malta
Nov 14, 2016Eric Rood1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
As our fearless leader Brian Lohnes is quick to point out, drag racing takes place all over this country. This includes a number of unlikely countries, but Hal Far Raceway on the tiny Mediterranean...
Take A Closer Look At One Of The Wilder Cars At SEMA 2016: The “Durty 30” Model A Roadster!
Nov 14, 2016Bryan McTaggartFORD, Videos
I don’t know if it’s a bad thing or not that I have become a bit jaded to the vehicles that appear at SEMA shows. Not that they all aren’t cool or unique in their own individual...
Running With The Big Boys: This Nasty All-Wheel-Drive DSM Comes Out Swinging!
Nov 14, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Seeing a hopped up Mitsubishi Eclipse/Eagle Talon/Plymouth Laser usually elicits snickering and snide comments about “danger to manifold” and breaking welds and other snipes that come...
MSHS Season Finale At ATCO Dragway Gallery – Points On The Line And Negative DAs Bring Out The Racers!
Nov 14, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, Gallery
You want to make a drag racer happy? Inform them that the density altitude is deep into negative territory and watch them light up. Like -1,162 ft. at high noon good. To say that the racers of the...
Crazy Mud Drags Action From Texas – Watch The Wild Thang Act Out Its Name! Three Wheels Are Better Than Four?
Nov 14, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
(By Jason Mazzotta) – They say everything is bigger in Texas and I guess that can be said for this mud truck crash as well, where we see a monster wheelstand, the loss of a wheel, continuation...
Finally A Champion; Ron Capps Is Your 2016 Funny Car Champ!
Nov 13, 2016Darr Hawthorne1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320
Ron Capps and the NAPA Auto Parts Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car team, led by crew chief Rahn Tobler, delivered Capps his first NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series world championship after being...
Steamed-Up: When the Besler Brothers Built a Steam-Powered Airpane
Nov 13, 2016Eric RoodBangShift XL, XL Videos
George and William Besler, the sons of a railroad magnate named—wait for it—George William Besler, were not the last innovators to try powering cars with steam engines, but they are among the...
This Skip Barber Series Racer Goes Last to First in Just Two Laps at Road Atlanta
Nov 13, 2016Eric RoodApex Video, BangShift APEX
It’s been a while since we’ve pulled up a good last-to-first run in a road race, so here’s one of teenage driver Jackie Ding ripping through a Skip Barber Winter Series field at Road Atlanta in...
Mr. Lewis’ Wild Ride: This Challenger Goes Lane-To-Lane And Manages To Miss Both Walls!
Nov 13, 2016Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, MOPAR
(Video courtesy of Justin Skudder) There’s one thing we all have learned after years of dragstrip time: If things seem to be going smoothly, just wait…something will happen shortly that...
This Land Rover Defender 110 High Capacity Pickup Is Off Roading Insanity. Sign Us Up.
Nov 13, 2016Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
When we saw this truck at the Off-Road Expo in Pomona last month we were blown away. You don’t see many right had drive vehicles around here period, but when combined with the fact that this...
Mopar Sunday: You Can Own The Chop Cut Rebuild Cuda!
Nov 13, 2016Chad ReynoldsApex Online Find, Apex Spotlight
Let’s face it, there are tons of Mopar show cars out there, and a lot of Mopar drag cars too. But there seems to be a distinct shortage of Mopar pro touring machines running around. Or at least...
This Pro Touring 1968 Camaro Is Done Right, But With A Twist!
Nov 13, 2016Chad ReynoldsApex Online Find, Apex Spotlight
The Pro Touring community has grabbed hold of the GM LS Engine platform with both hands and it seems like almost everyone either has an LS Engine or WANTS an LS Engine in their car. But at the same...
