Drive Angry: Competitive Racing From The Land Of Touring Cars!
Sep 22, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
If you were to compare racing to fighting styles, drag racing is like a one-on-one boxing match. Two fighters enter, one leaves, and generally, you know how it’s going to work out. The NHRA is...
LIVE Half Mile Racing From New Orleans: 200 MPH Street Cars?
Sep 22, 2018Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION, Videos
The number of half mile and mile land speed races going on around the country just keeps growing. But seeing this kind of racing live usually requires you to actually go to one of the races in...
A Funkier Mopar Vibe: This 1962 Chrysler 300 Has A Ratty Feel That We Dig!
Sep 22, 2018Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
So long as you aren’t asking for my choices, Mopar fans are set in their ways. They like Cudas and Challengers, Coronet R/Ts and Chargers, Darts, Demons and Dusters. Everything else fits a bill...
Here’s How You Build Your Own Simple Chassis Jig. Build Your Own Chassis At Home!
Sep 22, 2018Chad Reynolds1320 Spotlight, 1320 Tech Story, SUSPENSION, Tech Stories
We’ve been working on our own simple chassis jig to build Cole’s LUV truck on recently, and came up with something simple and easy that should work just fine for what we’re doing....
Hot Take: Kye Kelly Selling All Of His Stuff And John Gaydosh’s Departure From NHRA Pro Stock Are Ironically Linked
Sep 21, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
(Submitted by Frank Welsh) – Editor’s note: Reader Frank Welsh sent us this well crafted editorial with a look at the recent announcement that Kye Kelly is selling all of his stuff and...
The Grimy Climb: Racing For The Cash On A Muddy Hill In Tennessee
Sep 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
The dry gravel and sand that I encountered at Gravelrama earlier this year might have been tricky to handle, but a hill composed of slimy thin mud, chunky, dusty earth underneath the slime, tree...
Classic YouTube: The Lap 148 Battle During The 2007 Bathurst Race Was One For The Books!
Sep 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Rain falling on the track in certain areas, many cars on slicks, and everybody wanting to drive the front splitter square up the rear bumper of the guy in front of ’em. It’s Australian...
Rough Start: Will This 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Buff Out Well Enough?
Sep 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find
Love makes people do stupid things. I love watermelon, so I plant seeds, till the ground and wind up growing fruit the size of my next-door neighbor’s kid…so much of it, in fact, that I...
Unhinged: Witnessing The Final Farewell Of A Track
Sep 21, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320, Unhinged
The Uber driver dropped me at the gate a few minutes after seven in the morning. I was at least an hour earlier than I needed to be, but for some reason I felt that I had to be there and I...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Still Scour Swap Meets Or Has The Internet Taken Your Parts Dollars?
Sep 21, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
I’ve often wondered if the guys who have been grizzled swap meet veterans for decades on end have seen some kind of decline in the quality and quantity of stuff at meets now that eBay and...
Is It Weird That I Want To See A Hot-Rodded 1989 Buick Reatta Now? Daily Driver Or Psychotic Left-Field Choice?
Sep 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
It isn’t everyday that my véhicule du jour choice leaves me wondering if today is finally the day that I’m forced to admit that I’m cracked in the head. But here we are, the 1989...
Gutsy Driving Video: Here Are The Top Five Passes From The 2018 Goodwood Revival
Sep 20, 2018Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The most exciting move in racing is the pass. The ability to out wit, out muscle, or simply out drive your opponent is an awesome spectacle to watch and it has kept racing fans glued to their seats...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Idea You’re Glad You Got Talked Out Of?
Sep 20, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
Unless you were pulled over by one or found yourself stuffed into the back of one, chances are very good that you don’t know what the hell that slab-sided ode to awful is in that picture. In...
