2018 Lonestar Throwdown Photo Coverage: Awesome Trucks And Even A Few Cool Cars In Texas
May 16, 2018Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, BangShift XL, Car Shows, Gallery, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – When you throw a truck show in Texas you know it is going to be well attended! The 2018 Lonestar Throwdown was a blast and it was full to the gills with 2,000 show...
This 1968 Ford Commercial Promoting Their Big Car Lineup Is Awesome! (Why Are They In The Woods?)
May 16, 2018Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, Videos
So for starters you all know that we love the large barge cars produced by everyone in the late 1960s. These behemoths were designed to eat up miles of interstate and do so in an expedient fashion...
Street Racer Sled: An Air-Ride Equipped, Rat-Motor 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne Up For Auction!
May 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper
Baldwin-Motion referred to it as the Street Racer Special. It flew in the face of common sense, but it was effective: you picked up a 1968 Chevrolet Biscayne with a 425-horse 427, a four-speed, and...
Crazy eBay Find: This Single Cylinder Offy Prototype Was A Project For A Series That Never Happened
May 16, 2018Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, eBay Find
It is a rare occasion to be able to get hold of something both mythical and real at the same time…especially when we are talking about racing stuff. We stumbled upon an eBay ad for one of the...
See What The Killer Saw: Get A Close Look At The Peterbilt 281 From “Duel”!
May 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
The scene is so ingrained into automotive television lore: a red Plymouth Valiant roaming around California, with a Peterbilt 281 hauling an old tanker trailer hot on his rear bumper. You don’t...
Truckin’ Fun: This 1960 GMC Video Shows Off The New LCF Trucks and The Torture Chamber Crackerbox
May 16, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Videos
Trucking is a tough way to make a living in 2018, let alone more than a half century ago when this video was made. Certain things have gotten better, like the trucks themselves, the highway system,...
Best Senior Prank Ever: When The Cops Congratulate You, You Did Good!
May 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
May starts the wave of high school graduations that will take place across the United States. Approximately 3.6 million students are expected to graduate this year. That’s 3.6 million students...
’65 Hot Rod Magazine Drags – Watch Home Movies From The Day!
May 15, 2018Darr Hawthorne1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Fortunately for some of us, growing up in Southern California meant many of us also grew up around hot rods, racing and performance. As drag racing evolved at a number of Los Angeles area strips, a...
Watch This: Dirt Cinema Makes Us Want To Get Behind The Wheel Of An Off-Road Machine
May 15, 2018Chad ReynoldsXL Spotlight, XL Videos
Sometimes we see a video that just makes us want to do whatever is in the video. Like right now. Right now, right now! This is one of those videos. When the Dirt Cinema gang took to the dusty and...
Deep Blue: The Icon Kaiser Wagoneer Reformer Is Dream-Worthy!
May 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
The Jeep FSJ line, all of them…trucks, Wagoneers, Cherokees, all of them…share three things throughout their long run: a straight-up, no bullshit look that has stood the test of time very...
This Welding Table Was Nice When Finished, But It’s Even Better With A Round Of Revisions!
May 15, 2018Chad ReynoldsOTHER, TECH
I’m a freak for a good welding table. In fact, so much so that I haven’t built myself a new one yet because I want it to be perfect. Part of me loves that and the other part hates me for...
Rough Start: A Very Clean G-Body Malibu With One Teeny, Tiny, Six-Pot Hitch…
May 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
You had to hand it to GM for doing one thing right in the late 1970s: even though it was now the Malibu and not the Chevelle, the mid-size offering stayed true to the right old-school GM principals...
Sportsman Action Photo Coverage From NHRA Charlotte: From Factory Stock To Comp Eliminator, It Is Here
May 15, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, Gallery
(Photos by David Whealon) – It was big fun watching the sportsman class eliminations at the 2018 NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. Virtually the entire slate of...
