Stick Shifters! This Early 1970s Toy Commercial Has Us Thinking These Were The Best Drag Toys Ever
Oct 05, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I had some really fun car and truck toys when I was a kid. Stuff that would drive and crawl and make noise, etc. Those were exceptionally fun days back then, using your imagination and playing with...
RacingJunk Find: Blue Oval Brute – This 1968 Ford F-350 Is A Mud Slinging Beast
Oct 04, 2018Brian LohnesBangShift XL, Racing Junk Find, XL Online Find
If you only think a hot rod needs to sit low to the ground and hustle down the asphalt aisle as quickly as possible, you are really missing the point. Why? Because you’d never think that stuff...
Awesome Video: Saving A 1934 Plymouth Hot Rod That Was Hidden In The Basement For Decades!
Oct 04, 2018Brian LohnesApex Car Feature, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, CAR FEATURES, MISC, TECH, Videos
(Words and video by Tommy Lee Byrd) – In a time when it seems every barn, shed or field has been scoured, looking for the next great “barn find”, we’re pleased to announce that old cars...
Watch Justin Martin And His Nova Make The Quickest Limited Drag Radial Run In History 4.09!
Oct 04, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Justin Martin was a solid player in the Limited Drag Radial category of competition at Diamond Pistons No Mercy last weekend. The car was rattling off numbers in the low ‘teens despite the...
2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure Car Show Photo Gallery: More Sunny Southern California Cars and Trucks
Oct 04, 2018Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Drag Races
(Photos by Wes Allison) – Admittedly I have always been kind of obsessed with Southern California as this kind of promised land for hot rodding and stuff. Stripping away the “real...
Don Garlits Picks His Six Favorite Swamp Rats And Tells Us Why!
Oct 04, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
As much as Don Garlits was defined by his slew of amazing performances on the track during his career, he was also defined by his cars. There were a total of 37 machines that carried the...
Quick Tech From COMP Cams: The Proper Way To Find Top Dead Center
Oct 03, 2018Brian LohnesENGINE, Tech Stories
Finding top dead center is a critical procedure for many facets of building and hot rodding an engine. Being able to be 100% sure that things are assembled correctly and that valve timing is set...
LS Killer: This Aussie Ford Falcon Has A Warmed Up Barra Inline 6 and It Goes 9s
Oct 03, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
In a country fully obsessed with LS swaps, LS performance, and LS bragging rights, it seems inconceivable that there would ever be a challenger to the king of cheap horsepower. That challenger comes...
‘Splosion Video: Mark Oswald Suffers A Titanic Boomer At The Texas Motorplex Circa 1990
Oct 03, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
This weekend, Mark Oswald will be crew chiefing the Matco U.S. Army top fuel dragster of Antron Brown but in 1990 he was a kid driving the Ford Motorcraft nitro funny cars and doing a fine job of it....
BARRIER BROKEN: Turbinator Becomes First Wheel Driven Car To Break 500mph!
Oct 03, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
Yesterday was one of the most incredible days in land speed racing and the storied history of the Bonneville Salt Flats. Dave Spangler, driving the Team Vesco Turbinator became the first human being...
Howell EFI Is Your Home For LSx Swaps and Conversions – Plug, Play, and Don’t Delay!
Oct 03, 2018Brian Lohnes1320 Sponsor News, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift XL, Sponsor News, XL Sponsor News
We all know that the hottest thing in hot rodding continues to be swapping LSx engines into…well, into everything. People use this engine because it is compact, powerful, and easy to use,...
