Flying Cars Video: Free Life Films Collection Of Cars Launching Skyward Is Impressively Insane
Dec 12, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The modern landscape of drag racing looks lots different than it did even 20 years ago, especially when we look at performance. Full bodied cars on comparatively tiny rear tires are doing things that...
This 1940 Chevrolet Film Celebrates Engines In All Their Glorious Forms
Dec 12, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
One of the basic truths that we hold to be self-evident around here is that if you are reading BangShift you love engines. You like the noise they make, the smells they give off, the parts and pieces...
Dead: Suzuki Hayabusa, The World’s Fastest Production Motorcycle
Dec 12, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
For almost twenty years, one name has stood above the others in the sport bike world: Hayabusa. The name alone is the Japanese name for the peregrine falcon, a raptor that can easily hit 200 MPH in...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
Dec 12, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, ENGINES, Videos, XL Videos
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
2018 PRI Show Coverage: Plenty Of Goodness From The Show Floor At Indy
Dec 12, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, Gallery, Trade Shows
(Photos: Chad Reynolds) We are back with more coverage from the PRI Show in Indianapolis. PRI is, in short, SEMA with all of the gingerbread, wheel companies, and brodozers left out in the cold....
BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody – 485hp, Fender Flares, Tire Smoke, and True Muscle Car Spirit
Dec 11, 2018Dave Nutting1320 Drag Racing Feature, Apex Car Feature, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift Road Test, BangShift Road Tests, MOPAR
(Photos by Dave Nutting – Words by Lohnes, Sestito, Nutting) – For a guy who does not own a Challenger, I spend inordinate amounts of time in them. Between spending a week with...
The Bloodhound SSC Project Is Dead: Broke and With No Hope Of Funding, Car Is Being Dismantled, Parts Sold
Dec 11, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Top 11, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
The most ambitious land speed record project in history is dead. The Bloodhound SSC project, a near decade long undertaking to design, engineer, and build the first car capable of going 1,000mph has...
Money No Object: One Bad, Black Goat – This 1971 Pontiac GTO Is Sublime!
Dec 11, 2018Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
It’s no Tri-Power car, it isn’t a Judge, and it isn’t a even the “right year” for the GTO, whether you believe that’s 1964, 1967, 1969 or 1970. It’s not 100%...
The Bumper Doesn’t Count As A Wheelie Bar! This Nitrous Small-Block Malibu Launches Hard!
Dec 11, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The first time your racing machine tries to make the move from horizontal to vertical and nearly succeeds is the point where wheelie bars should really be considered. You can be forgiven if...
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2018 PRI Show Photo Coverage: More Cars, More Power Plants, More Cool!
Dec 11, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, Apex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery, OTHER, Trade Shows
(Photos by the author) – We’re continuing on with 2018 PRI show photo coverage today with a collection of images that starts to give a pretty good idea of the cross-section of mechanical...
Cheap Racing LUV: Broke Bastard Garage Is Building A Chevrolet LUV For The Zip-Tie Drags!
Dec 11, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Project Cars, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
If you didn’t know, Chevrolet LUV pickup trucks are a strange little kink around BangShift. Chad’s son Cole is building a monster out of one and I’ve got a pretty strong history...
Final Pomona Swap Meet Of 2018: Western Metal Rust-Belters Can Only Dream Of
Dec 11, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, Gallery, Swap Meets
Recently, I saw a comment about how looking at the cars that filled up the lots at the Pomona Swap Meet qualified as “cheating” because it’s desert metal. Just to make sure I...
