The Cold, Hard No: Watch As This Rockbouncer Rolls Back To The Bottom Of The Hill
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, CRASH & BURN, Videos, XL Videos
Being told “no” sucks. It’s one of the first things you learn as a child and it sticks with you as you grow up and grow old. No, you can’t have another piece of candy. No, you...
2017 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Coverage: A Fantastic Event For A Fantastic Cause
Jan 02, 2018Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Back again for another awesome event supporting suicide prevention through Shelby’s Way. We’ve brought you coverage of these before and the event on...
Behind The Ropes Part 1: Live A Weekend In The Life Of An NHRA A/Fuel Dragster Team As They Make Their Debut
Jan 02, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Here’s the first of a seven part series written by Corey Michalek about the competitive debut of he and his brother Kyle’s NHRA A/fuel dragster team. After years of crewing on top fuel...
BangShift Question Of The Day: When Was The Last Time You Laughed At A For Sale Ad?
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
Anybody who has ever read my work knows that I have a soft spot for cars built between 1973 and 1990 or so…you know, the years most normal people avoid like the plague because a...
Snow Monster: The Dynamics Of A Kamaz Dakar Truck Flying In Frozen Russia
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
I don’t know how many words in Russian we all know between the three of us, but there is one we all know without question: KAMAZ. That stands for ten tons of Russian race truck that uses about...
Looking To Finish A Jet Powered Pinto Wagon That Someone Started – We Found One For You!
Jan 02, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
BangShifter and land speed racer Joe Jolly sent us a tip to this wild Craigslist ad that features a partially built jet powered Pinto wagon that needs to be finished. For starters, the man building...
Watch At The Hoonigan Team Welcome In The New Year Right: Eighteen Car Tire Fire!
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
The Hoonigan folks are car geeks to the core. Videos, jokes, and all of that mess are secondary to the machines. Everybody who hangs around the shop on a full-time basis has their car ready to go:...
Money No Object: The Convertible 1981 Jeep Wagoneer That You’ll Want This Summer
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Craigslist Find, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
Is it too early to be talking about drop-tops? We just passed the Winter Solstice a couple of weeks ago and BangShift Mid-West is currently the land of frigid winds. It’s cold enough right now...
This 1920 Ford Model T Roadster Pickup Snowmobile Is For Sale And Totally Awesome
Jan 02, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
New Hampshire has brought many great innovations to the world over the last couple hundred years but we’re not sure if any of them can top the snowmobile, which was invented in the 19-teens by...
It Lives Again! Irwindale Speedway Gets A Reprieve From Becoming Yet Another Mall
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
Eff you, shopping mall, Irwindale will live on. The track, which was supposed to run it’s last ever event at the end of January before being leveled down and turned into yet another shrine to...
The NHRA’s Wild Rides 2017 Video Is A Collection Of High Impact Experiences
Jan 02, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
With the 2018 NHRA Winternationals little more than a month away, the drag racing organization took the last week to look back over stuff that happened during the 2017 campaign. While there were a...
Best of BS 2017: The Old Fighter: This 1965 Pontiac GTO Might Be Scarred Up, But It’s Down For Another Fight
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Car Features
Every last car ever made has a story. Some are uneventful lives that spanned from birth on the assembly line until the day the uncaring fifth or sixth owner drove them to the local U-Pull-It yard to...
