Great Idea Office, Nitrous Division: Cleetus And Crew Hit The Dyno With The Auction Corvette
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Credit to Cleetus for making lemonade out of lemons here. We told you last week about how, in a moment of full impulse, he bought a C6 Corvette that had taken a mild tap up front from an auction for...
Morning Symphony: Secret Squirrel C8 Corvette Prototype Testing At Sebring
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Ever since a very hacked-up Holden Ute was spotted on GM testing grounds property back in 2015, the new-car world has been in a constant state of hyper-vigilance over any and everything to do with...
2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photo Gallery: Here’s More Cars, More Trucks, and more Cool
Dec 07, 2018Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Now we move on to muscle cars and this one is made up of the non-GMs in attendance. Remember we didn’t have time to get into the track area during...
Polishing A Silver Nugget: This Ford EXP Goes From Grungy To Gleaming!
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggartFORD, OTHER, Tech Stories
I won’t lie…I was seriously looking at this Ford EXP on Craigslist for the last week and a half. If you are shocked by that news, then hello, welcome to McTaggart’s World of Weird...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Are You Going To Ask Santa To Bring You This Year?
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
You’ve got a couple of weeks left until the big day that involves boxes under the tree, you know. I’m shopping, you are shopping, everybody and their mother is shopping, it seems. Shop,...
Dick LaHaie Has Died At Age 76 – Relive A Top Fuel Win With He and Kim From 1985 – A True Legend
Dec 07, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
He was one of drag racing’s true gentlemen. Dick LaHaie was a racer that it was nearly impossible to root against. He and his daughter Kim were sentimental favorites during their rise to top...
Rough Start: Sleepy Brown – This 1979 Buick LeSabre Is The Perfect Hustle Car
Dec 07, 2018Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
A Buick LeSabre of similar vintage to the 1979 coupe that we found while surfing for Rough Start finds is one of our top picks for a true sleeper. That car, a blue mirror-image on nitrous, is known...
Do They Come Cooler Than This: 1964 LeSabre Convertible With A Cool Engine, New Parts, and Just Enough Rash To Rule
Dec 06, 2018Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, eBay Find
This car is absolutely and utterly awesome. I am not a guy who normally even thinks about liking convertibles but the fact of the matter is that I am in love with this one. Holy smokes. What you have...
Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Alright, I’m going to cop to a failure: I was planning on getting videos and much more photos from the first King of the Heap event of the year at NCM Motorsports Park. What ended up happening...
From Death To Demonic: This Chrysler 300C Went From An Insurance Total To A Six-Speed Ripper!
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Project Cars, BangShift APEX, MOPAR, Videos
A couple of days ago I found video of a ProCharged Chrysler 300C with a manual trans swap that had been built to race in Australia. The words “manual swap” attached to “Chrysler...
2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals: Haulers, Trucks, Wagons And More Vintage Steel That We Love!
Dec 06, 2018Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Gallery
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Why is there another shot (different angle and light) of the flamed ’40 Ford…? Because I like it so much and I’m the one putting these galleries...
Morning Symphony: Giving The Turbochargers That Afterglow!
Dec 06, 2018Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Aussie burnout contests are akin to a rock concert: you aren’t going there for any technical aspect, nor are you there to learn something. You’re there because loud noises, a crowd in a...
2018 Houston Autorama Photo Gallery: Hot Rods and More On The Concrete Show Floor
Dec 06, 2018Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The Houston, Texas area has been a hot bed for hot rodding for more than half a century. There have been legendary car dealers down there like Gay Pontiac, there...
