Fun Video: How To Go To Space Explained (Using The 1,000 Most Common Words In English)
Mar 19, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Space, the final frontier! I’ve always wanted to type that. Anyway, we’re here on a Sunday and we found a fun video that explains how people go to space using the 1,000 most common words...
Before Bonneville: More Intense, Fun, and Interesting Images From Ormond Beach 1905-1910
Mar 19, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
We’re back with another installment of Before Bonneville, a look at the world of land speed trials held on Florida’s Ormond beach for years before someone ever thought to turn a wheel on...
Watch A Ford 6.2 Boss Engine Which Now Measures 460ci Scream At 8,500 RPM And Make 800hp!
Mar 19, 2017Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
Ford’s 6.2L “Boss” family engine was launched to compete head to head with the GM LS engine of the same displacement and the late model Hemi that Chrysler puts on their trucks....
A Close Look At Forbidden Fruit: Here’s What A U.S. Legal Holden Ute Is All About
Mar 19, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, OTHER, TRUCKS, Videos
Nearly ten years after Pontiac backed out of bringing the G8 ST to the U.S. market, I’m still annoyed. I’m not kidding in the least when I say that I would’ve spent all of the money...
First AWD and First GT-R In The Sixes! AMS Performance’s Alpha G Nissan GT-R Kills It At TX2K17!
Mar 19, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
[email protected] MPH, with the engine not playing along once it hit fifth gear. The achievement that Diamonds By Wire Racing and AMS Performance earned at TX2K17 has been a long time coming, not just for...
Airplane Engine, Chain Drive, And Tire Smoke – This Is What Racing Looked Like 100+ Years Ago
Mar 19, 2017Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
In our award winning (ok, it has not won any awards…yet) series Before Bonneville we have been showing you in still photos what the world of high performance cars looked like 100-110 years...
This In-Car Video Of A Muscled Up Porsche 911 Hauling Tail Around Spa Is Totally Awesome – TONS Of Sideways Action
Mar 19, 2017Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
There are in-car road racing videos and then there are in-car videos of dudes who are true masters behind the wheel and this is one of the latter. Through virtually the entire lap of the famous Spa...
BangShift Tune-Up: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
Mar 19, 2017Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
You can needle-point all you want about where rock and roll music started, but there should be no question that Chuck Berry is one of the fathers of the genre. His blending of showmanship,...
Buy The Book? Timber On The Moon: The Curtis Turner Story by Dr. D. L. Morris (Reprint by Gray London)
Mar 19, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift News
I have never been more excited to read a book than I was after finding out that there was a reprint edition of Timber On The Moon available for purchase on Amazon for less than $10. Gearhead...
Challenge Accepted: Watch Mark Higgins Pilot A Subaru Rally Car Down A Bobsled Course!
Mar 19, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Mark Higgins has done many great things in a Subaru WRX STI, most notably his monstrous 17:49.75 lap at the Snaefell Mountain Course…you know, the Isle of Man TT loop that is considered one...
Screaming Tank Video: A British Chieftain Tank Bounces Off the Red Line
Mar 19, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
If we had a tank like the guys in this video do, we’d use it exactly like they do. Crushing stuff has to be lots of fun, especially when you know that every inch of the vehicle doing the...
Watch This Turbo Corvair Powered Sand Dragster Make Wheels Up, Sub 3-Second Runs While Throwing Rooster Tails
Mar 18, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We have showed you hot rodded Corvair engines previously running on the dyno and in hot street cars but this may be the wildest application of GM flat six power we have seen anywhere. Using an older...
A Preserved “Day 2” V8 Vega? This Thing Is A Time Capsule!
Mar 18, 2017Tony SestitoApex Car Feature, BangShift APEX, Craigslist Find
Lately, I’ve had a thing for the diminutive Chevrolet Vega. Bone stock, they were boring and unreliable, and let’s face it: they weren’t very good at being cars. That’s why...
We Told You It Was Coming! American Powertrain Launches Tunnel Hump For 1960-72 Chevy C10
Mar 18, 2017Brian LohnesNew Products, Sponsor News
Bam! A little while back we dropped some knowledge on an upcoming part from American Powertrain and guess what? It’s here NOW. The company is offering a transmission tunnel hump for 1960-72...
