One Clean Comet Caliente – This Little Mercury Has A 302, AC, and Spray!
Jan 24, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
The 1960-1965 Mercury Comets are cool and interesting cars. Based off of a slightly modified version of the Ford Falcon platform they were produced in trim levels and performance grades from mundane...
The End: Our Last Group Of Action Photos From The ECTA Ohio Mile Final Meet
Jan 24, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The LAST gallery of photos from the LAST ECTA Ohio Mile. Yep….this is it. Met a lot of people here, learned a lot, and saw a bunch of amazing...
Exclusive Photos Of The New American Powertrain 1968-72 C10 Transmission Hump
Jan 24, 2017Brian LohnesApex New Products, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift APEX, BangShift XL, New Product Spotlight, New Products, Sponsor News, XL New Truck Products, XL Sponsor News
So this week BangShift will be dropping knowledge on all sorts of new parts, components, and products from aftermarket companies across the board as we’re attending an annual event that centers...
Crazy Drag Racing Video: Watch A Funny Car Start Up Go Wrong And The Crew Scatter!
Jan 24, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
(By Greg Rourke) – There’s nothing funny about funny cars. Here we have an example of how things can go wrong at any part of attempting to operate one. The guys running the Candies And...
The BSF Recovery Service Is Totally Awesome – Watch This Off Road Tow Truck Get The Job Done!
Jan 24, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – Up in Northwest Wisconsin and Northeast Minnesota they have a bunch of off road parks and trails. And unlike the weenies I see driving around here with four shocks at each...
Just Like They Used To Be: Would You Leave This 1975 Ford Maverick Grabber Stock?
Jan 23, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
They were everywhere when I was a little kid. Blue, yellow, green, red, white, and every shade of brown under the sun…you couldn’t turn a street corner in Colorado Springs in the late...
So You Want To Go Nitro Racing – The Finale: The Team Wins A Wally!
Jan 23, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words by Bad Brad Klaassen, photos by Bob Snyder, Wayne Lederer, Trent Work, Kenny Youngblood, and Bad Brad Klaassen) – Saturday morning, January 14th, found us rolling into Wild Horse...
Not Every Holden Is A Burnout Car…Check Out This Beastly Kingswood Pulling Truck!
Jan 23, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
If there is such a thing as “burnout season” in Australia, it’s currently in full force right now. Video after video, we’ve seen some of the best come out swinging, turning...
The “WTF?” Files: A Coal-Rolling Corvette That Gives Purists Coronaries!
Jan 23, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
Diesel power is good power. It isn’t difficult to make tugboat-levels of horsepower and torque with a good mill, but if there is a downside, it’s that normally you have to deal with the...
ECTA Ohio Mile Action Coverage: Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Records
Jan 23, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(By Doug Gregory) – Only one more article left in our coverage from the last Ohio Mile at Wilmington Air Park. The third-generation GM F-body have been a fairly popular platform for land...
Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: Step One Is Getting Our Forlorn Fox Back On The Road
Jan 23, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Projects, FORD, Pumpkin Mustang
Our 1980 Mustang hasn’t had the most comfortable life in the last few years. It’s lived in a shed (the sketchy, wasp-filled number that was the home of our Imperial when I yanked out the...
Ever Wonder Why Cop Cars Have Push Bars? Here’s A Video Example
Jan 23, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – I was a truck driver for a while. The perception is big semi trucks can drive through anything, but reality is it doesn’t take much to reduce them to 80,000 pounds...
South Georgia Motorsports Park Hit By Tornado – Luxury Boxes Annihilated, Tower OK
Jan 22, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
A day and night of wild weather in the southeast has left South Georgia Motorsports Park a mess but (thankfully) largely intact. A tornado struck the track and hammered the local area causing lots...
Great Save! Two PDRA Pro Nitrous Racers Seem Headed For Certain Destruction But Emerge Unscathed
Jan 22, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The PDRA’s crazed brand of eighth mile drag racing has provided lots of hair raising moments over the years but few of them have looked as ominous as this one and ended as happily. In the video...
