Your Reminder That It’s Too Easy To Get A License: Chevrolet’s “Call Me Out” App Reminds Drivers To Leave Their Phone Alone
Oct 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CHEVY, Unhinged
It’s not that I really needed another reason to worry about the state of humans. I have a list that is probably as long as the track at Beech Bend, and it keeps growing every day. And I...
Airborne, Most Of The Way: Rally Jumps Throughout The Years
Oct 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, Videos
If you get the inclination, watch some rally footage from the 1960s or earlier. You won’t recognize what you are seeing as actual rally racing…instead, it’ll look like the best tour...
There’s Hope For Any Car When A Ford Taurus Needs A Parachute At A Drag Strip
Oct 16, 2018Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FORD, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Years ago, Brian Lohnes gave me a title in the Forums: “the Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes”. You can’t blame him…ask anyone here if you don’t know about my thing...
Oddly Fun Gallery: The Motorama Auto Museum Is One Of The Strangest In America – Check Out Our Photos!
Oct 16, 2018Brian LohnesApex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Gallery, Museums
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – I headed up to nothern Wisconsin for a three day weekend, the land of fish frys, supper clubs and brandy old fashioned cocktails. In the hotel lobby was a...
Classic YouTube: The SR.N4 “Mountbatten” Hovercraft – Air Ride For The Channel!
Oct 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Videos
Ferry service was never as wild as it was between Britain and France in the second half of the 20th century. Given that the Channel Tunnel wasn’t completed until 1994, there were two real...
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...
