Best of BS 2017: Watching This Trucker Pull Gears With A Three Stick Transmission Is Like A Circus Act
Dec 30, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
We’ve been hammering you with high winding race cars and hot rods in our Parting Shift videos over the last few weeks so now it is time to change gears (see what we did there?) to something...
Best of BS 2017: This 9.62-second Mazda Savanna Blasts Down The Strip!
Dec 30, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
When Mazda dumped the 10A rotary into the Grand Familia series of cars, the goal was not to build a hot rod powered by the triangle of death…instead, it was meant to circumvent Japan’s...
Best of BS 2017: 1967 Film Shows How The Pieces Of The Saturn V Were Moved To Florida and It Rules
Dec 29, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The Saturn V rocket remains the most powerful man-made vehicle ever constructed and it was the bad ass hot rod that carried the USA to a victory in the Space Race with Russia. Like any hot rod, it...
Best of BS 2017: Rod Saboury And His Wild 1953 Corvette At Maple Grove In 1998!
Dec 29, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The wildly painted, real-deal 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that wore the license plate “INTHE6S” was the stuff of legends for a young teenager who spent more than his fair share of time...
Best of BS 2017: Look Before You Leap: This Dune Rider Went From A Hundred-Foot Jump Onto The Hood Of A Jeep!
Dec 29, 2017Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
In most sand dune off-road parks, you need to have a ten-foot orange flag attached to whatever you are riding or driving for safety. This way, accidental incursions between vehicles can be minimized,...
Best of BS 2017: The Howl Of The Angry Demolition Derby Car
Dec 29, 2017Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Around 1997, there was a demolition derby build car in our yard. It was a late 1970s Pontiac Catalina two-door, which was just another cheap GM B-body that somehow had the misfortune to end up at the...
Best of BS 2017: Thieves Literally Drive Off From Plant With Millions Of Dollars In Jaguar Engines
Dec 29, 2017Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX
In a crime that is pretty impressive for its completely brazen nature, British thieves rolled up to a Jaguar plant, hooked up to a trailer full of engines and disappeared with them. Apparently...
Best of BS 2017: This Ford Dualie Has Cummins Power To Get It Down The Road
Dec 29, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Street Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
No “Fummins” is not a typo (which, let’s be honest we have mastered around here) it is some diesel slang for a Cummins powered Ford truck. That’s exactly what you are looking...
Best of BS 2017: When Dick Johnson Hit The Rock At Bathurst In 1980
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, Videos
A rock defined the 1980 Bathurst race for Ford driver Dick Johnson. The day had been going so well…starting the race in second place and leading for most of the first seventeen laps,...
That’s…Concerning: Rollover Testing A 1998 Ford Expedition With Nobody Buckled In!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, FORD, Videos
As we make progress on turning the rolled-over Explorer we drug home into a pile of parts, we couldn’t help but wonder just what the rollover crash test footage looked like. Ford’s...
Best Of BS 2017: Check Out The Ramcharger And The ’57 Ford Truck Remote-Controls!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartVideos
There are remote-controlled vehicles, and then there are the true scaled-down, replica machines like what you will see here. Take a look at the 1987 Dodge Ramcharger…at first take it looks like...
Best of BS 2017: The “WTF?” Files: Somewhere Within This Monster Is A 1970 Opel GT. If You Say So…
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggarteBay Find
Every so often I come to the conclusion that I’ve seen just about every form of four-wheeled oddity there can be out there…and usually, three seconds after I have come to that conclusion,...
Best of BS 2017: This Supercharged And Turbocharged Cummins-Powered Dodge Charger Is A Freakshow!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, MOPAR, XL Videos
Where do we start with WelderUp’s “Project Overcharged” 1968 Dodge Charger? It looks like an extra from the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. Hiked up on a completely custom frame and...
Best of BS 2017: Watch Stevie Jackson Reset The All-Time Drag Radial Record in Front Of A Packed House At SGMP
Dec 28, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
It was the session that we had all been waiting for. Last night’s Radial vs The World qualifier was awesome with 3-second runs falling out of the sky and the world record being reset multiple...
