Just Like A Kid: Mr. Regular Gets A Shot Behind The Wheel Of A Real-Deal Fire Truck!
Oct 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
Before BangShift Mid-West came into being, I was working out of the back of a beauty parlor simply because it had free Internet available. Sometimes I was there when everybody was there, other times...
Ultimate 64 Challenge Coverage – Our Last Blast Of Photos From Mountain Park Dragway
Oct 03, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We start off this last gallery with THE MAN himself filling the seat of a borrowed ride. Scotty Richardson and his staff have done an amazing job...
Mr. Maniac: This Honda-Powered Toyota MR2 Just Can’t Keep The Front End Planted!
Oct 03, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Sometimes, you just have to root for the underdog, and when it comes to rowing your own drag racing, it doesn’t get much more underdog than a Toyota MR2, does it? Unless you showed up with a...
Drag Week 2017 Action Photos: Our Last Blast From Byron Dragway – The Historic Strip Was Rockin’
Oct 03, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, Gallery
(Photos by Greg Rourke) – So here’s our last blast of drag week 2017 action photos from Byron Dragway in Illinois. By the time we got to Byron there was carnage among the 389 cars that...
The GT-51 Ford: Check Out Last Year’s Gran Turismo Awards Winner With Jay Leno!
Oct 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartFORD, Videos
We are on short time towards the 2017 SEMA Show, and the timing of Jay Leno couldn’t be better, because he recently got wheeltime with the one car that shut up just about everybody who laid...
BangShift Tune-Up: “You Don’t Know How It Feels” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1994)
Oct 03, 2017Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
Tom Petty is one of those rare singers who doesn’t just transcend genre, but is able to transcend time. I grew up listening to his work, from the moment I was born to the moments as I type. My...
This 1941 Buick Roadmaster Coupe Is A Straight Eight Beauty That Was A True Early ’40s Factory Hot Rod
Oct 03, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
When America was plunged headlong into WWII, it was not long before the US government decided that the domestic auto companies needed to swap their manufacturing might from cars to war materials....
Abe Lincoln Was America’s First True Gearhead President And He Has The Patent To Prove It
Oct 02, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Truck News
When we think of Abe Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, we normally default to the major accomplishments of his presidency. He oversaw one of the darkest, if not the darkest time...
Pulling Carnage Video: When the Weight Sled Fails, Bad Things Happen
Oct 01, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The weight sled at a pulling event is the great equalizer. Like an engine dyno or a drag strip it has humbled and conversely, made heroes of many pullers over the course of time. Funny thing is, you...
This Unstoppable Kiwi 4×4 Uses A Diesel Engine, Logs, Angle Iron, And A Truck Frame To Own The Swamp
Oct 01, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The tired old adage, “less is more” has never been better applied than it is to the truck you will see driving completely submerged and slogging through the muck in this video. The video...
This Tractor Has The Most Complex “Wheels” Ever Made – Howard Rotopads Rule!
Oct 01, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Many of you have likely seen old tractors with track conversions that used rubber or steel tracks that looped around the rear driving wheels and the front wheels to give farmers and other workers...
Video: Goodwin Competition Extreme Marine Engine Heads To 7500 Slowly On The Spintron – Brutal!
Oct 01, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Todd Goodwin and the crew up at Goodwin Competition engines are on the bleeding edge of horsepower making technology. One of their mills powered the “See Red” to Drag Week victory in 2015...
BangShift Approved: Watch This Twin Motor, Scratch Built Hot Rod Rip Down The Strip
Oct 01, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
There’s a big difference between building something freaky looking and building something freak looking that actually works. This video shows a scratch built hot rod with a pair of pump gas...
Runaway Anchors! Watch What Happens When Ships Lose The Handle On 100 Tons Of Iron
Oct 01, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Mankind has made a habit of building machines to deal with things and forces which are too strong for our comparatively feeble bodies. Ships are one of the machines that we have crafted as a...
