Sick Of LS-Swapped Nissans? How About A Toyota With A Small-Block Ford?
Nov 07, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, OTHER
Drift events. Cars and Coffee. LS Fest. Hell, the kid down the street is probably ripping the guts out of a Nissan 180SX or 240SX and is preparing to jam it full of late-model GM V8. And if the...
Roadkill! The Story Of The Dirt-Track Challenger, The Mopar Nats And Roadkill Nights On Woodward Avenue!
Nov 07, 2016Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
If you remember this summer, I basically was road tripping all over middle America with our Angry Grandpa 300C. I hit up the Mopar Nats at National Trail Raceway, then drove up to Michigan to see the...
Video: The Inside Story On The Insane 3,500hp Wagler Competition Duramax
Nov 07, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Wagler Competition has long been a strong name in the diesel performance world. The company has been a leader in Duramax performance for years and they offer lots of hard parts for guys looking to...
SEMA 2016: The Tri-Ace Drift Holden Ute – Specially Shipped Over From Australia With Love (And Some Hate!)
Nov 07, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Car Feature, Apex Sideways, BangShift APEX, TRUCKS
If you thought getting a car ready for SEMA was normally a pain in the ass, you can only begin to imagine the headaches that Josh Robinson and the Tri-Ace Tires Drift Ute team had to face: a car that...
2016 Cynthiana Rod Run Burnout Contest Cars And Action
Nov 07, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The 2016 Cynthiana Rod Run pretty much wrapped up with the burnout contest that partly took place during a light shower. It had been a steamy, humid day...
SEMA 2016: Think We’re Done Showing You SEMA Cars And Trucks? Wrong
Nov 07, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Trade Shows
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – We’re back with more photos from the lens of Bryan McTaggart and our ragged week covering the 2016 SEMA show. Bryan did a great job and will continue to...
SEMA 2016: Chevrolet Actually Asked Us To Flog Their Cars At Spring Mountain Motorsports Park And Tell You How They Did!
Nov 07, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Event Coverage, BangShift APEX, BangShift Road Tests, CHEVY
If the SEMA coverage so far makes it sound like Lohnes and I had one hell of a week…well, we did. SEMA wasn’t even the start of our week…Lohnes was at Las Vegas Motor Speedway,...
Video: Todd Lesenko Violent Nitro Funny Car Explosion At Pomona 2012 – Incredible Slo-Mo Footage!
Nov 07, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Todd Lesenko is a veteran of the drag racing nitro wars. The Canadian driver has competed in modern and nostalgia funny cars and top fuelers. He’s also exploded a few. That may explain his...
Rough Start: This 1976 Ford Elite Is Nice And Is Just A Few Mods Away From Great!
Nov 07, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, FORD
How much longer are you going to be able to find a relatively cheap 1970s car that isn’t beyond hope? Every year I keep thinking that “this will be it”, and every year I find a...
Yes! We Found A Pristine and Functional 1933 Chevy Wrecker For Sale
Nov 07, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
Being a tow truck driver these days is tough and dangerous work. From the long hours on the road to the risk of some idiot plowing into you on the highway, there’s a lot of risks associated...
NTPA North Carolina State Fair: Our Last Big Collection Of Action Photos From The Event
Nov 06, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery
(Photos by David Whealon) – We’ve reached the end of David Whealon’s fantastic action photo coverage from the NTPA North Carolina State Fair pull. This has been a fun few days of...
Jumping A SEMA Show Truck? Not A Great Idea
Nov 06, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
This video is an oldie but it still cracks us up. If the title is to be believed, you are about to see a group of guys take what is purported to be a SEMA show truck and run it over a big dirt berm...
BangShift Feature Replay: Great Drag Racing Stories From Hero Announcer Jon Lundberg
Nov 06, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Jon Lundberg’s name is no stranger to the lips of any drag racing fan who knows the history of the sport. While Dave Mac became the voice of the NHRA, Lundberg became the voice of virtually all...
SEMA 2016: McTaggart’s Photos From The Show Floor – Cars and More
Nov 06, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery, Trade Shows
(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – I have been funneling lots of photos at you from the 2016 SEMA show but the reality is that both Bryan McTaggart and I were burning up the aisles and our shutter...
