Question Of The Day: What Parts Failure Scared You The Most?
May 27, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
I’m honestly amazed that I survived the year 2000 at all. It was bad enough that I was at peak “mouthy teenager”, but I was left to my own devices 99% of the time, had a car, had a...
Video: The Year a Cummins Diesel Took the Pole at the Indy 500
May 27, 2017Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
This video is too cool. We had heard the stories of Cummins-powered diesel Indy cars before, but we had never seen any video of them until we stumbled upon what looks to be a Cummins promotional film...
Unhinged: As We Send The Rollover Explorer To The Crusher, We Balance The Books! How Did We Do?
May 27, 2017Bryan McTaggartFORD, Unhinged
Well, as far as I’m concerned, the Rollover Explorer has outlived it’s usefulness and will soon be dragged off of my property, to be ground down into tiny bits, never to hurt another...
Video: Watch A High Powered Rock Buggy Climb And Then Fall Off A Sheer Cliff!
May 26, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Many of the coolest motorsports we all enjoy today have roots in the Southeastern United States. Pro Mod drag racing was a largely southern creation, stock car racing, swamp buggy racing, and others...
This Awesome Intake From A Dan Gurney AAR Indy Car Is The Coolest Speed Part On eBay Right Now – Here’s Why
May 26, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
Dan Guerney’s All-American Racers (AAR) outfit produced some really interesting and awesome stuff over the years but we think that their coupe de gras was a car that they brought out in the...
AutoMeter Chrono Series Gauges Are Now Shipping! Great Looks, Proven Performance
May 26, 2017Brian LohnesNew Products, Sponsor News
Obviously job number one when talking about gauges is performance. Job number 1A is aesthetic performance or how the look fits your build. While we all know and appreciate the performance record that...
Rough Start: This 1968 Mercury Marquis Is Patina’d Perfection. Just Fix The Interior!
May 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, FORD
Is it because I’m a sucker for a car on slot mags, that this 1968 Mercury Marquis speaks to me? Is it because I’ve got visions of this Merc blasting down some desert road somewhere,...
NHRA Sanair 1972: The Vintage Photos From This Historic Race Continue!
May 26, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – The cool thing about these photos from the 1972 NHRA Le Grandnational at Sanair Super Speedway outside of Montreal, Canada is that they have some big time historical...
Pennies On The Dollar: This Yard In South Dakota Is Liquidating Inventory!
May 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Ok, if you’ve been wanting a budget-friendly way to get some interesting and useable metal or a whole project car, this is your heads up. This is the NCS Antique Auto liquidation, it’s up...
Check Out This Behind-The-Scenes Look At How The Actors Were Trained To Drive For The Movie “Baby Driver”!
May 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Ok, Jalopnik got a good one here. “Baby Driver”, once you choke down the name of the flick, looks like it’s going to at least have a couple of good car chases…the movie is,...
Again? General Motors Is Being Sued Over Diesel Emissions For Duramax-Equipped Vehicles
May 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CHEVY, TRUCKS
The case is Fenner et al v General Motors LLC et al, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, No. 17-11661, and the short and sweet version of what it’s all about is almost like deja...
BS Daily Tune Up: A-Bone – The Trashmen (1964)
May 26, 2017Brian LohnesBS Daily Tune Up
Minnesota’s favorite rock and roll sons of the middle 1960s were a band of boys known as “The Trashmen”. In 1963 they launched out of obscurity and ran up the charts with their most...
Running a Flathead V8 Without a Cylinder Head!
May 25, 2017Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
This video cracked us up and had us pressing play multiple times just to gawk. It starts with a closeup shot of a running Ford flathead V8 that sounds as though it has a big time miss. As the camera...
