Unhinged: Welding Lessons For The Resident Delinquent
Jul 20, 2017Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
There are certain skill sets needed to be a moderately capable wrench. You need to know the basics of how to take things apart and put them back together in the right order, the correct way. You need...
X275 Madness: Watch New England’s Joey Mauro Launch His Car To The Moon At Epping
Jul 19, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
(Video Credit: Mikel Visual YouTube Channel) – There’s a million reasons that the X275 class is such an awesome and exciting part of the drag racing world these days. The cars look like...
Meltdown Drags 2017 Coverage: The First Barrage Of Awesome Photos From Byron Dragway
Jul 19, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, Gallery
(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – Once again, it’s that time of year…the Meltdown Drags! The eighth annual Meltdown might have been this biggest or best, but either way it...
Meet The Most Beautiful 1973 Ford F-250 XLT For Sale In America – This Truck Is Amazing
Jul 19, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
I am a freak for 1970s Ford trucks. Bump sides, dent sides, two wheel drive and four wheel drive, I love them all. This truck is simply stunning for about 600 different reasons. The truck is a one...
Watch The Old “Float Your Monster Truck Down The River Trick” End As Badly As It Usually Does – Swearing At No Extra Charge
Jul 18, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Those four big tires you see peeking above the surface of a mucky little watering hole at some undisclosed location are attached to a pretty bitchin’ truck which became a pretty...
1940s Video Of Burbank, California As Shot From A Train Has Cool Cars, Buildings, And Feel
Jul 18, 2017Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
A hearty thanks to BangShift contributor Benoit Pigeon for finding and sharing this video with me that is comprised of some fantastic footage from Burbank, California in the 1940s. Shot from a moving...
Caption This: Don’t Ask Where The Goofy CR-Z Is, They Won’t Like It.
Jul 18, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
Minivans are boring. I don’t care how many laps Rutledge Wood can crank out of a Toyota Sienna, or how wicked up that Turbo Caravan is at your local test and tune…it’s still an...
Classic YouTube: Summernats In Late 1980s Australia! Burnouts And A Start-Stop Challenge!
Jul 18, 2017Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
For years we’ve shown you the wild side of what an Australian auto event can be. The powerskids that leave Holdens looking like a horizontally-launched Space Shuttle as they rocket down the...
Weld Racing And The Andretti Family Team Up – 120 Years Of Combined Experience Between Them
Jul 18, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift APEX, Sponsor News
It is always cool when companies and families have a legacy together. WELD Racing is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and we all know the story of the racing Andretti family, right? The...
Rough Start: Can You Really Go Wrong With A Rough But Running X-body? This Pontiac Ventura Looks Like A Score!
Jul 18, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
I don’t know what it is about a primer gray GM X-body that makes me feel good. Maybe it’s fond memories of my mother’s Oldsmobile Omega, or maybe it’s because they make for...
Get Your Horsepower On: These DRCE3 Raw Castings Are The Building Blocks Of Serious Horsepower
Jul 18, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
With all of the rumors surrounding the pro stock class lately, it is sometimes easy to forget how incredible the machines themselves are. They have been refined to a razor’s edge. Some people...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Far Gone Is Too Far Gone For You?
Jul 18, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
Between Brian, Chad and myself, we’ve got a list of winners that have been dragged home and propped up as a financially responsible, perfectly safe mode of transportation…or, at minimums,...
Dyno Video: Watch The Bob Book Built, 400ci NHRA Comp Eliminator Small Block That’s Headed For The Pacific Northwest Make A Rip
Jul 18, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Now this is some small block music straight from the horsepower heavens. You are going to watch a 400ci small block Chrysler hemi engine make a rip saw of a dyno pull at Bob Book Racing Enterprises....
