Rough Start: 1989 Merkur XR4ti – Turbo Ford With A German Accent For The Dirt!
Jan 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, Craigslist Find, FORD
At the January King of the Heap race, a Merkur XR4ti showed up. The body had been sitting in a field for quite some time and the engine was fresh enough, but the rumor mill was flying about the...
The American Powertrain Tuesday Shift: A Supercharged Straight Eight, A Clutch Pedal, And A Hill Climb
Jan 15, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, ENGINES, RACING & ACTION, Videos
We live in an exceptionally neat age where things we see on a magazine page will suddenly roar to life in front of our very eyes in video form. That’s exactly what you are about to watch. The...
The Story Of Finnegan’s Box Truck Continues! When A Working Tape Deck Is The Highlight, How Bad Was The Low?
Jan 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
If you didn’t catch the first part of the story of this rather expansive square-body monster that Finnegan bought for himself, you need to check that out first. Trust us, you want and need the...
Money No Object: This 1972 Pontiac LeMans Convertible Has Us Dreaming Of Warmer Days
Jan 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, eBay Find
If you are one of the people who clamor for the first snowfall of the year, I single-handedly blame you for the current situation outside of my front door. It is a misty, gray, muddy mess at...
Big Toys: Mega Truck Short Course Racing From Tulsa Raceway Park
Jan 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
Mega trucks are a curious thing. They are like art in a way: they only exist for the sake of existing. They don’t work. They don’t have any intrinsic purpose other than bringing...
Unveiled: 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – Heeere, Kitty Kitty…
Jan 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, FORD
In the late 1960s, the fight wasn’t so much Mustang versus Camaro as it was Ford versus Mopar. The setting was NASCAR, the cars were the special aerodynamically-tuned jobs and the speeds were...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Embarrassing Mechanical Mistake You’ve Made?
Jan 14, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
For all you yukksters out there, skip answers like, “Buying a Ford/Chevrolet/Dodge” that’s not the intention of this question. No, we want to know a screw up you have made while...
Hover Torquer: This Video Feature Of A Wildly Low Slung 1958 Ford C550 Is Awesome – Cummins Power, Burnouts, More!
Jan 14, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, CAR FEATURES, MISC, Videos, XL Big Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature, XL Videos
This is one wild truck. It has the visual impact of a sledgehammer and the truck has a cool backstory and build story as well. The 1958 Ford C550 cab was found intact in a junkyard and the cab along...
Watch This Awesome Saab Sonnett Bonneville Record Holder Make A Dyno Pull With Its 3-Cylinder 2-Stroke Engine!
Jan 14, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The Saab Sonnett was a minuscule sports car offered by the Swedish company in three different generations. Small, light, front wheel drive, and fun to operate, they were not sold in huge numbers here...
Rough Start: This 1963 Chrysler Newport Is Unrealistically Clean!
Jan 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
Before you start, I didn’t pick this thing for our latest cheap-car hunt because it’s a Mopar. I mean that. Trust me, at the hour that I’m writing, I would’ve taken anything...
Want To Build The Coolest Small Block Ford You Can? Buy This Gurney-Weslake Top End Package – Vintage Power!
Jan 14, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, Apex Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, eBay Find
We know, we know. Modern heads make more power. Modern heads move more air. Modern heads have decades and decades of development behind them. All thats fine but there ain’t a modern head that...
The Long-Term Project: This 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix Has Quite The Story Under It’s Faded Paint!
Jan 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
With all of the “how have you aged” photos flying around Facebook, I decided one night that instead of blindly just putting up an old and new photo of myself, I’d instead take a...
