Little Car, Big Price: This 1965 Sunbeam Tiger Is Restored To Perfection But It Ain’t Cheap
Sep 20, 2018Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, Racing Junk Find
From 1964-1967 the little Rootes car company in England produced one of the coolest sports cars of the decade. The Sunbeam Tiger combined the sprightly Rootes chassis with a good old American small...
Rough Start: Flip Nader The Bird In This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza
Sep 20, 2018Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find
For once, seeing a model of a car die just as it was becoming great wasn’t completely the fault of General Motors. Plenty of the blame had to be laid on the head of one Mr. Ralph Nader, who had...
Morning Symphony: The Burnout Contest From LS Fest East 2018!
Sep 20, 2018Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
We brought you photographs from the burnout contest from LS Fest East 2018, but let’s face facts: no photograph is ever going to compare to seeing the madness in action while hearing the...
Rough Start: This 1973 Chrysler New Yorker Is The Perfect Vessel To Cruise With!
Sep 19, 2018Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
I’ve recounted many times before the story of my cousin Vance, his 1973 Chrysler Newport, and how he used to take me on hell rides on side streets in Colorado Springs when I was a young kid. I...
Video: How Stevie Fast Jackson Won The 2018 NHRA US Nationals – An Amazingly Improbable Victory
Sep 19, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
It was ugly. It was worse than ugly. This was embarrassing. Stevie Fast Jackson was cruising toward his third DNQ in a row as part of the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Series. This was after building...
Turn 6, The Car Crusher: Some Of The Strongest Impacts From Sandown Raceway’s Infamous Corner
Sep 19, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, CRASH & BURN, Videos
Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria is effectively two drag strips connected by a few corners. You’d think that for a road racer, that’d be heaven. Here’s the truth, though: when...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Have Any Good Station Wagon Memories?
Sep 19, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
The timing was off, I guess. When it comes to discussions on who rode in what growing up as a kid, most people my age rode around in minivans or the early smaller SUVs of the early 1990s. Older than...
Jim Oberhofer released from Kalitta Motorsports – Veteran Crew Chief Departs Team With 5 Races Remaining In NHRA Season
Sep 19, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
In news that has taken the NHRA drag racing world by surprise, veteran Kalitta Motorsports crew chief Jim Oberhofer has been released from the team effective immediately. The crew chief role will be...
Reawakening The Dead: This Leyland P76 Is Brought Out Of A 35-Year Rest And Back To Life!
Sep 19, 2018Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
Let’s say you hit the proverbial lottery and find a barn find worth mentioning. The car has been down for many years, but from the looks of things, a quick wash and detail will take care of the...
Rocky Mountain Raceways’ Night Of Fire: Lighting The Candles One Last Time, Part One
Sep 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, Gallery
It didn’t matter if they had two or two hundred jet cars on the property, it was very apparent what the crowd that had filtered into Rocky Mountain Raceway had come to see: jet cars. We had...
