Best of BS 2017: Man Vs. Wild: Stump Removal Done Right And Wrong!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Mow around it all you want, ignore it as long as you can…sooner or later, the ugly stump of what was once a tree in your yard is going to have to be extracted sooner or later, and it’s...
Best of BS 2017: The Rothmans Porsche 911 Rally Car Doing What It Did Best
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Porsche might not be the first name you think of when it comes to rally racing. It probably isn’t the first German manufacturer you think of. Ok, it might not even be the second German...
Best of BS 2017: Project FIRE – How They Tested Their Heat Dissipation Theories Before Making Astronauts Live Through It
Dec 27, 2017Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
If hot rodding is ultimately about solving problems and achieving new things, there has never been a better or more important group of hot rodders than the NASA engineers of the 1960s that drove the...
Best of BS 2017: These Two-Wheel-Drive “Rail Buggy” Builds Are Sweet! Watch Them Climb A Wooded Hill Like A Goat!
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
We’ve shown you rockbouncers, the unhinged, V8-packing, by-any-means-necessary full exo-caged machines that turn off-roading into a combative sport, but it’s not the only show going on...
Best of BS 2017: Is It OK To Like These Again: Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Edition
Dec 27, 2017Tony SestitoBangShift News, CHEVY, eBay Find
In today’s automotive world, we really are spoiled. You can go out right now and buy a Camaro or Mustang with a V8 with well north of 400hp, and it will be a comfortable place to spend time to...
Best of BS 2017: Here’s Some Footage From A 1954 NASCAR Race At Peace Haven Speedway!
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, Videos
On February 21st, 1948, after a series of meetings held at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, NASCAR was incorporated on the heels of a successful 1947 season for William France’s...
Best of BS 2017: Pushing 150 MPH On Ice In A Big Chevy With A Carload Of Friends!
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Jimmy Klaavuniemi and his 1966 Chevrolet Bel Air have been quite busy in the last year, having run Drag Week, the travel to and from Sweden, and so on and so forth. The nine-second Chevy gets the...
Best of 2017: Watch The Wild Ride Stevie Fast Had At Lights Out 8 And Read His Statement As Well!
Dec 26, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
It was the highest of highs and some interesting lows for Stevie Fast, Phil Shuler, and the rest of the Shadow 2.0 team during Lights Out 8 last weekend. They were running a car that was virtually...
Best of 2017: The Worst Car In The World Is Currently For Sale On Craigslist – Chrysler Executive Limousine
Dec 26, 2017Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
So that’s a pretty tall claim, right? Calling something the worst in the world is heady stuff. This is a matter of opinion of course. If you really love a Chrysler Executive Limousine this...
Best of BS 2017: John Ammer’s 1971 Mercury Cougar Is A Roaring Beast!
Dec 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartCar Features, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, FORD
Early on Friday morning, I saw it pull in with a group of others like it, like a pack of animals: big tires, blowers, and enough threatening indications to keep all but the most cocky street racer at...
Best Of BangShift 2017: 1990 Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R – We Finally Take On Godzilla
Dec 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Road Tests, Car Features, OTHER
(Bucket list item, checked. -Ed.) A couple of weeks ago, we checked out Roadtrip Motorcars’ selection of Japanese-market vehicles (which you can see HERE and HERE) and I made mention that there...
Well, It Is Turbocharged: This 1985 Buick Regal Looks Like A Grand National, And Runs Like A…Well…Pinto.
Dec 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find, FORD
(One of the stranger online finds to cross our path this year, this Grand National stirred up a bit of a hornet’s nest when we first published it. If you’ve got this car and it’s...
Watch A Rally Driver’s Small Mistake Turn Instantly Into One Of The More Wild Wrecks We Have Seen This Year
Dec 26, 2017Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
To some level, all forms of racing are unforgiving. Bad light at the drag strip by a few hundredths and you are toast. Try to pass at the wrong time during a stock car race and the field will blow by...
Best Of BS 2017: The Story Of An Audi Quattro’s Destruction At The 2017 Prescott Rally
Dec 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift APEX, OTHER
(Since this story was written, Riley and Moose have been piecing together what they need to get back into racing and have, for the most part, healed up from the big off that they had at the Prescott...
