No Membership Required: ECTA Is Running An Additional Race This Year – Standing Mile Fun November 10-11 At The Mile in Arkansas
Oct 16, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
The ECTA is having so much fun racing at their venue in Arkansas that they have added a race to the 2018 schedule and it is easier than ever to participate. No membership is required for this last...
Rough Start: This Great Dale House Car Is What Happens When You Cross A Buick And An RV
Oct 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Well, what do we have here? At first glance it appears that a rather large in-bed camper or maybe a fifth-wheel trailer of some kind was bashed together with the front third of a 1966 Buick Wildcat....
Gearhead Myth Busting: Gale Banks Tackles The Benefits or Downsides Of Performance Differential Covers – Fascinating
Oct 16, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, TECH, Videos, XL Videos
Gale Banks is one of the most brilliant minds that hot rodding has ever known. He’s succeeded virtually every single area imaginable. While we know him for this diesel work over the last 20...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Sharp Words From BMW To Critics!
Oct 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Snow. There is snow falling in the continental United States right now. The leaves haven’t even fallen off of the trees yet. Well, it’s official: get your outdoor activities done now and...
1960s and 70s Vintage Drag Racing Action – Incredible Film! Little Red Wagon Wreck, All Kinds of Cars, Just Awesome
Oct 15, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Few videos featuring vintage drag racing action from the 1960s and 1970s can come within a country mile of being close to how bad ass this one is. A friend tipped us off to the recently uploaded...
The Rotary Returns: Mazda Is Bringing Back Wankel Engines…As Range Extenders.
Oct 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
They aren’t the only company to make use of the Wankel design, but Mazda is by far the most successful at making chip-shaped rotors turn out power. Slammed into everything from small pickup...
Money No Object: A Nine-Second 1979 Chevrolet Impala That Is Ready To Party
Oct 15, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, CHEVY, eBay Find
Is it love? Lust? A desire to see if the claims of a nine-second 1979 Chevrolet Impala are true? Um…yes. Everything about this silver and black B-body screams directly at the teenage delinquent...
The Bourbon Suburban Is One Bitchin Cruiser That You Can Own And We Can’t Stop Drooling Over
Oct 15, 2018Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
Our friends at Classic Car Liquidators showed us this ‘64 Suburban a week back and we’re in LOVE. This big, bad ride came to them halfway finished with the interior needing finished, body...
Little Demon: Happiness Is A Supercharged Pontiac Solstice GXP
Oct 15, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Now here’s a car we don’t think about often, the Pontiac Solstice. The little Kappa sports car that was one of the final hits from the Excitement Division before Pontiac caught the wrong...
Goodguys Lone Star Nationals Was A Must See Event, And We Have The Photos To Prove It
Oct 15, 2018Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, Car Shows
(Photos by Rob Bennett) There was much to see at the recent Goodguys Lone Star Nationals near Fort Worth Texas, and we were able to get a bunch of great photos, which means we have lots of cool stuff...
Money No Object: That’s No Ordinary Turbo Porsche…The Lanzante 930 Is Packing 1980s F1 Power!
Oct 15, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
(Images: Autoblog) We aren’t normally bothered too much with Porsches around here. We appreciate the history and the motorsports contributions and actions, yeah. We wouldn’t turn down any...
Classic YouTube: The 1971 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 Convertible Review By Car and Track – Hey, They Liked This One!
Oct 14, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, HISTORIC, Videos
If you watch the Car and Track videos on YouTube, you’ll notice a trend: host Bud Lindemann tends to become more and more pessimistic about the cars that are being tested as the years march on....
You Want To See Some Suspension Move? Watch This Trophy Truck Video On Some Insane Whoops!
Oct 14, 2018Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Spotlight, XL Videos
We can guarantee that if this trophy truck was to stop right after hauling ass across these whoops, you couldn’t touch the shock bodies. We’re talking massive heat from massive rate of...
Winter Is Coming, So Here’s Some Snow And Ice Fun To Watch…Police Included!
Oct 14, 2018Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Have you noticed a chill in the air yet? Here at BangShift Mid-West, we sure have. Apparently we’re skipping that pleasant, still-kinda-warm Autumn weather and in it’s place, we’re...
