Watch At The Hoonigan Team Welcome In The New Year Right: Eighteen Car Tire Fire!
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
The Hoonigan folks are car geeks to the core. Videos, jokes, and all of that mess are secondary to the machines. Everybody who hangs around the shop on a full-time basis has their car ready to go:...
Money No Object: The Convertible 1981 Jeep Wagoneer That You’ll Want This Summer
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Craigslist Find, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
Is it too early to be talking about drop-tops? We just passed the Winter Solstice a couple of weeks ago and BangShift Mid-West is currently the land of frigid winds. It’s cold enough right now...
This 1920 Ford Model T Roadster Pickup Snowmobile Is For Sale And Totally Awesome
Jan 02, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Online Find
New Hampshire has brought many great innovations to the world over the last couple hundred years but we’re not sure if any of them can top the snowmobile, which was invented in the 19-teens by...
It Lives Again! Irwindale Speedway Gets A Reprieve From Becoming Yet Another Mall
Jan 02, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
Eff you, shopping mall, Irwindale will live on. The track, which was supposed to run it’s last ever event at the end of January before being leveled down and turned into yet another shrine to...
The NHRA’s Wild Rides 2017 Video Is A Collection Of High Impact Experiences
Jan 02, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
With the 2018 NHRA Winternationals little more than a month away, the drag racing organization took the last week to look back over stuff that happened during the 2017 campaign. While there were a...
Best of BS 2017: The Old Fighter: This 1965 Pontiac GTO Might Be Scarred Up, But It’s Down For Another Fight
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Car Features
Every last car ever made has a story. Some are uneventful lives that spanned from birth on the assembly line until the day the uncaring fifth or sixth owner drove them to the local U-Pull-It yard to...
Best of 2018: Former Level 5 Racing Owner Scott Tucker Sentenced For Illegal Payday Practices – $1.3 BILLION In Penalties!
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Scott Tucker, the former owner of Level 5 Motorsports, had it all…a top-tier road racing outfit, American LeMans championship, a private jet, a garage of top-tier cars and enough money in the...
Best of BS 2017: SRT-8 Mirada: How A 2007 Dodge Charger SRT-8 Wound Up Underneath A 1980s Dodge!
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartCar Features, MOPAR
(Photos: Facebook/SRT-8 Mirada) I can already hear you, reader: “Who in their right mind would build a Dodge Mirada?” Ok, besides me, who? What would make someone look at Dodge’s...
This Rally-Racing Plymouth Valiant Rules! Watch This Classic A-body Tear Through The Forests!
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Just like the Ford Falcon and the Chevy II, the Valiant was only meant to be the compact car that buyers wanted, that Detroit really didn’t want to build. Just like the other two, the Valiant...
Best of BS 2017: BangShift Top 11: Strangest NASCAR Stock Cars Raced
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartTop 11
Ever since I could identify what the cars were that flew around superspeedways on ESPN, I could tell you two things about NASCAR: The cars all look the same. The amount of manufacturers seems to be...
Best of BS 2017: Sinister Sentra: Meet The 2017 LS Fest Winner For The Most Creative Swap Ever!
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
One notable thing about this year’s LS Fest that was far different that any other LS Fest I’ve attended…or, for that matter, any other event I have attended…is that for a good...
Best of BS 2017: The Superformance Drift Cobra: A Supercharged Coyote Equals All Anger, All The Time!
Jan 01, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, Event Coverage, FORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Prior to BangShift, the loudest and most brash section of my life was the military. Every day started pretty much the same way: I drug my tired (and probably hung over) ass out of bed, I somehow...
Best of BS 2017: We Wake Up The Big Block Chevy In A 1971 C10 With A Plethora Of Off The Shelf Parts
Jan 01, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, ENGINE, Tech Stories, XL Engine Tech, XL Tech Stories
(By Kaleb Kelley) – As we’re building our 1971 C10 for the Win A Classic Sweepstakes, I had to figure out what to do to freshen up the old motor. First off, it’s a NAPA 454 Big Block...
