Best of 2017: EKanoo Racing Lexus Resets All-Time Doorslammer Record With 5.44 (Quarter Mile) Blast!
Dec 26, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
(Lead photo credit EKanoo Racing, time slip photo – Arabian Drag Racing League) – (Editor’s note: This number was supplanted by Jose Gonzales at a PDRA race later in the 2017...
Best Of BS 2017: Forget The Neighbors, This Alcohol-Gulping Ford Falcon Will Wake The Whole Damn City!
Dec 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartFORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos
(Lead photo: Jerry Rissen) You think the neighbor with the unsilenced rooster is annoying? That “beep-beep-beep” of the alarm clock just not getting the job done? Oh, do we have a...
Best Of BS 2017: These British Tank Mechanics Found Five Bullion Bars In The Fuel Tank Of …Well, A Tank!
Dec 26, 2017Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Here’s a strange question: what do you do with a tank that you got in trade? Very few of us will even come close to needing to know, but a group of tank freaks in Britain will be recommending a...
Best of BS 2017: This 1980 Dodge Mirada Could Be The Perfect Never-Was Pro Stock Tribute For Next Year’s Drag Week!
Dec 25, 2017Bryan McTaggart1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, eBay Find, MOPAR
Even by weirdo Mopar standards, the Dodge Mirada is a strange duck. Built for four years, slower than cold molasses even on it’s best foot forward, and having the unfortunate reputation as the...
Best Of BS 2017: Watch As The Three Pedals 1989 Pontiac Wagon Completely Owns The Screamin’ Fried Tires Burnout Contest At The 2017 Holley LS Fest!
Dec 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
First and foremost: the “Screamin’ Fried Tires” burnout contest that Hoonigan and Hooker Blackheart sponsored for the 2017 Holley LS Fest has to be one of the best ideas to hit the...
Best Of BS 2017: The Rustic Nail & Co. 1948 Dodge Is Renewed Art
Dec 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Car Features, MOPAR, TRUCKS, XL Street Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
Restoration is the art of returning something to it’s original state. “Restification” describes the art of restoring, namely applied to a vehicle, but adding modifications to either...
Best of BS 2017: 2017 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4×4 – The Relic On The Lot Is The One You Want
Dec 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Road Tests, MOPAR, TRUCKS
(This was one of my favorite vehicles of the year…the most old-school new vehicle I’ve ever driven. -Ed.) We soon should be hearing more about the upcoming 2018 Jeep Wrangler that will...
Best Of BS 2017: Ratty Muscle Cars’ “No Shine Sh*t List” Under The Lights Meet 2017: Part One, The Meet-Up And Cruise
Dec 25, 2017Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery, ROAD TRIPS
The last time I made the trip down to Decatur, Alabama to check out a Ratty Muscle Cars gig, the weather called for cloudy with a chance of snow and ice, so I cut bait before any action went down and...
Mopars & Muscle Cars At The Strip • Chryslers Everywhere 2!
Dec 24, 2017Darr HawthorneApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, Car Shows
(Photos and Words by Darr Hawthorne) The yearly Mopars & Muscle Cars at the Strip brings together the largest collection of Chrysler products in the West at the Strip at Las Vegas, with some...
Watch Chuck Little Pull Off The Greatest Single Round Upset Of The 2017 NHRA Pro Mod Season
Dec 24, 2017Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I have been thinking about great runs and great rounds of competition from the last year as we approach 2018 and the one captured on video below is one of my favorites. You are going to see 72-year...
The Year Of The LS-Swapped Rolls-Royce? Take An In-Depth Look At The ICON Derelict 1958 Silver Cloud!
Dec 24, 2017Bryan McTaggartOTHER, Videos
This will be the third Roller I’ve learned about this year that has been converted from the stately lump that weighs in at about half a cruise ship to GM LS power. A Rolls-Royce with GM...
A Serious Rescue: The “Wild Cherry” Chevy Van From The Movie “Van Nuys Blvd.”
Dec 24, 2017Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Project Cars, TRUCKS
Van culture peaked in the late 1970s, fact. So did cruising, disco, and other questionable vices that to people of my age, represent the dark side of what my parents were up to before I was born. I...
Here’s Our Second Batch Of Photos From The Sheely Collection Charity Autocross
Dec 24, 2017Chad ReynoldsAutocross / Pro Touring, BangShift Galleries
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Yesterday we shared the first batch of photos from the Sheely Collection Charity Autocross in Fontana, and here is the second batch to enjoy while hanging out and being lazy...
