Watch This Ford Bodied Truggy Dominate The Elements With Snow Donuts In The Deep Stuff
Dec 26, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
For people who live outside the snow belt, they think that the white stuff is all misery and badness. While there are certainly some crummy elements to it, there’s also a few angles that appeal...
Classic YouTube: How To Hot-Rod A Pencil Sharpener Using The Engine From An R/C Car!
Dec 26, 2016Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The bane of my existence during my school days was the common No.2 graphite pencil. Not the mechanical pencil…no, the cheap, yellow pencils that were given out like free candy at the beginning...
Historical Footage: The Car And Track Review Of The 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!
Dec 25, 2016Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, CHEVY, HISTORIC, Videos
By 1974 the party was over. Unless you knew your way around an option sheet at Pontiac or were willing to look at an AMC Matador coupe, the fun had been killed, by insurance companies, the EPA, and...
Caption This: Why Going Cheap On An Auto Transporter Is Going To Cost More In The Long Run
Dec 25, 2016Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, FORD, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
I will not, under any circumstances, explain how I managed to end up in trouble during my military career that put me on extra duty for a month and a half. Some of you military types can come up with...
Merry Christmas Done Right! The Guys From Joe Dart Racing Fry The Hides With A Tree On The Roof
Dec 24, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Brandan Gant and his Dart may be familiar to BangShift readers as Gant is a multi-time participant in Hot Rod Magazine Drag Weekend and in 2015 Gant won the end of event bracket race in the very Dart...
It’s Done! Hot Rod Garage Finishes Up Project Fishtail, Their Drift ‘Cuda!
Dec 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartMOPAR, TECH, Videos
Forty-something days to take a shell of a car from out of a barn and turn it into a stomping drift car from pretty much scratch. Even when you factor out the help with parts or any of the perks of...
Money No Object: This Viper-Powered Dodge Dakota Is Like Standing In The Open With A Sledgehammer!
Dec 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
General Motors had the 454SS, the Syclone/Typhoon twins, and the C-series Sport trim pickups. Ford had the first-generation Lightning. And the folks at Chrysler had…well, in the 1990s, it was...
BangShift Question Of The Day: If Santa Had A Hot Rod What Would It Be?
Dec 24, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
After rocking out with the kids to the Beach Boys Classic, “Little St. Nick”, we got to wondering what ol’ Santa Claus would have for a hot rod, other than the sleigh of course. we...
The Year In Review From Fullboost: Fire, Speed And Power From The Land Down Under
Dec 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
It’s that time again, when everybody starts to dig through their footage, photos and stories to unearth what surely is the best of the year. It’s the beautiful thing of the age we live in...
2016 Drag Racing Memories: Shane Westerfield and Jeff Jones Nearly Marry Two Funny Cars In Dallas
Dec 24, 2016Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I saw a LOT of close calls in 2016 during my time calling drag races. Whether we’re talking wild NMRA and NMCA small tire stuff to the traditional NHRA scene, there’s never a shortage of...
NORAD Santa Tracker! Here’s The Link To Follow The Big Guy Around The Globe
Dec 24, 2016Brian LohnesBangShift News
For 60 plus years the NORAD Santa Tracker has been keeping the world abreast of the position and activity of one Mr Claus and his band of flying reindeer. Obviously not all of those more than six...
Rough Start: Who Doesn’t Want A Lifted Ford Cop Car?
Dec 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, FORD
A 1980s Ford LTD Crown Victoria isn’t the first vehicle that comes to mind when you think about a lift kit, is it? Most people picture a cop car from a bad 1980s cop flick, and the only one...
Mighty Car Mods Review The Year With Their Lancer And 180SX, Now Finished!
Dec 24, 2016Bryan McTaggartVideos
Why should you care about a Mitsubishi Lancer and a Nissan 180SX that both had been ran ragged and left for dead? The Nissan has fans in the drifting community, sure, but the Lancer, known better in...
An Insanely Clean 1974 Camaro For Less Than $9000!!!
Dec 23, 2016Chad Reynolds1320 Online Find, 1320 Spotlight, Apex Online Find, Apex Spotlight
We don’t know what else to say but WOW! Sure it’s a 6 cylinder, but who cares! It’s insanely clean, you are going to swap out all the suspension and drivetrain anyway, and if it was...
