Turbocharged Barra FTW! This Little Ford Cortina Gets Moving With Six Buzzing!
May 17, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD
I’m still working on the culture shock I experienced when it comes to a turbocharged inline-six cylinder engine that can run. For an engine design that I’ve always figured was the...
Money No Object: This Sweet 1977 Chevrolet Monza Is The Most Wild Do-It-All Car We’ve Ever Seen!
May 17, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, eBay Find
We aren’t sold on this 1977 Chevrolet Monza because it was a magazine feature car (Super Chevy, May 2015) or because it’s eye-searing orange paint, a Lamborghini color, can be spotted by...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Slow Progress Is Still Progress!
May 17, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Projects, FORD, Pumpkin Mustang
The 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia that is BangShift’s in-house Fox Body project has been progressing. Admittedly, much slower than we were anticipating work to move, but we aren’t a reality...
The DeMarco Radial vs The World Buick Is For Sale – Want A Proved 3.80s Commodity?
May 17, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
If you love G-bodies and you love Radial vs The World or other forms of small tire racing, the literal car of your dreams is for sale. David DeMarco has decided to sell the Buick Grand National that...
This 1977 Pontiac LeMans Was Supposed To Be A Figure 8 Car, But Was Spared – How Would You Finish It?
May 17, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
When I see things listings that say, “Figure-8” car, I automatically figure that within months, the car will be a dead carcass on a rollback headed to the crusher. Amateur racing is...
Project Weapon X Update: Some Unexpected and Unwanted Curveballs Strike The Build
May 17, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Drag News, 1320 Drag Racing Feature, BangShift 1320
(By Robert Williams) – 6 weeks into the Weapon X build and here’s where it stands… After writing and sending Part 1, I lost my work assistant Craig, due to a serious injury to one...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst American Car Of The Last 50 Years?
May 16, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
So this one should bring the carving knives out. I was in a conversation with a guy the other day and this question kind of came up. There are a million ways to approach it because there have been...
Amazing Historic Videos: Turbonique Company Promotional Films
May 16, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The internet is good for a few things. One of them is causing familiar topics to bubble up time and again in different places. One of the common topics of discussion that always rears its head when...
Check It Out: A 1978 Dodge Monaco That Wasn’t Crashed Or Turned Into A Fake Cop Car!
May 16, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, MOPAR
Has anybody ever bothered to count just how many 1975-78 Mopar B-body sedans were killed off in movies and on television? Lots of people know how many General Lee Chargers were launched into the...
This 1994 Twin Turbo Supra Is As Unicorn As It Gets – 100% Factory Stock and Less Than 30,000 Miles?!
May 16, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
So this is something else. For your youngins out there, in the mid to late 1990s Toyota sold a legitimate muscle car that was rear wheel drive, had a stick, and could really wallop guys in Mustangs...
Can’t Drive 55? Go To Nevada, Where They Just Approved An 80 MPH Speed Limit!
May 16, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
If you’ve driven anywhere in Nevada that isn’t around Las Vegas or Reno, you know first-hand just how desolate that state can truly be. There are some empty stretches of Interstate that...
Halfway To China: This Is How To Get A Tractor Stuck!
May 16, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
If you’ve gone off roading and haven’t gotten stuck in mud, then you aren’t living. There’s nothing quite like seeing a set of tires hidden under thick slop, and having to dig...
This 1974 Video Called Patrol Vehicle Operation: Emergency Driving Is Great – Recognize The Location?
May 16, 2017Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
We love these old cop car driving videos. Not because they provide some incredible level of entertainment through the narration but because videos like this one called Patrol Vehicle Operation:...
Classic YouTube: Can A Fox-Body Mustang Survive A Tough-Truck Course?
May 16, 2017Bryan McTaggartFORD, Videos
Where do you draw the line between rally racing and just simply beating the hell out of a car in the dirt for the hell of it? Tough Truck racing. That’s right, Tough Truck ain’t just for...
