This 383 Stroker Small Block Powered, Crown Conversion Mid-Engined Corvair Is Awesome!
Aug 14, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
Corvairs are cool but Crown Conversion Corvairs are cooler. Why? Crown was a company that developed a kit to bolt a small block Chevy into a Corvair where the back seat would be. With the engine...
This 1961 Pontiac Bonneville Was Optioned To Fly – Too Nice To Be A Salt Cruiser, But We’re In Love
Aug 14, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
If you were a Pontiac man in the 1960s and you wanted the best, you bought a Bonneville. The biggest and most luxo cars that the division produced, they were a symbol for success. The third...
Goodness Gracious: Brent Self Becomes A Comet At Outlaw Armageddon In Oklahoma!
Aug 14, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY
Everything about this footage should have been the same as any other race: a Fox Mustang and a catfish Camaro line up next to each other on the strip at Thunder Valley in Oklahoma. It’s a...
Here’s Your Morning Serving Of Bonneville Speed Week 2017 Photos!
Aug 14, 2017Chad Reynolds1320 Spotlight, Apex Spotlight, BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, Land Speed Races, LAND SPEED RACES, XL Spotlight
If you want Bonneville Speed Week 2017 photos, results, and more, BANGshift.com is the place to find them. We’ve been out every day jamming photos of everything we can find, and that means tons...
The Scoop! Here’s All Of The Racers Who Have Qualified To Make Record Runs On Monday Morning
Aug 14, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
Bonneville may be the only place on Earth where people look forward to getting up early on Monday morning. Hundreds will descend on the salt (us included) to see record contenders prepare their cars...
Are You Going To Be At The Woodward Dream Cruise This Year? Stop By And Let This FCA Engineer Sketch Up Something For You!
Aug 14, 2017Bryan McTaggartCAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
Woodward is just a few days away, and as we saw last year, the cruise is going on longer than just the Saturday. But there are plenty of things going on during the week around to check out, and we...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: A Leaf On Leaves?
Aug 14, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Welcome to the August Rush. Chad, Daphne, Cole, and even the dog are out at Bonneville. Brian is also out on the salt, though he took a quick vacation to play announcer for the Roadkill Nights event...
Blunt Force Truck: A 220+ MPH Bad Ass 1999 Ford F-250 Powered By A Twin Turbo V-12 Detroit Diesel
Aug 14, 2017Brian LohnesXL Race Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
It’s baaaaack! The “It” is the 1999 Ford F-250 Super Duty of AF Dick who hails from Oregon. The last time I saw the truck was at Speed Week 2013 and I instantly fell in love with...
Bad News: Three People Were Killed In A Shooting At Great Lakes Dragaway On Sunday
Aug 13, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
We take no pleasure in relaying news like this from a drag strip. Three people were killed in a shooting at Great Lakes Dragaway on Sunday. The historic track in Union Grove, Wisconsin was hosting an...
The Scoop! Danny Thompson Hammers Streamliner To 435mph! All Saturday Record Qualifiers Here
Aug 13, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320
Here’s The Scoop! This is the place where we’ll post all of the cars that qualified to make a record run at the Bonneville Salt flats each day during Speed Week. There were 10 cars that...
Money No Object: Mustang Wagon? Confused Fairmont? We Don’t Care! This Fox Mutt Is Awesome!
Aug 13, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
The beauty of Ford’s Fox platform is that you can mix-and-match whatever you want to make something truly unique. Unfortunately, it’s not often actually done. We’ve seen a couple of...
This 1966 Nova Gasser Project Is A Screaming Deal, Big Block Included!
Aug 13, 2017Chad Reynolds1320 Online Find, 1320 Spotlight
Most of the time, people who own partially finished projects think they are worth the money they have into them even if those parts are older and have been sitting. Often guys end up sitting on a...
