2019 Buffalo Motorama Coverage: Here’s our Final Collection Of Images From The Show
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – All good things, and some bad things, must come to an end right? That’s a fact of life and we’re at the end of the Mike Brooks photos that carried us...
Vintage Road Test: The 1971 AMC Javelin on Car and Track
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
We love the old footage from Bud Lindemann’s Car and Track television show back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The sweetest clips are from the road test thrashings they gave all the hot...
Exotic Dyno Video: Watch A Twin Turbo 12-Cylinder Ferrari Testarossa Engine Scream Its Guts Out On The Dyno
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
Continuing our daily dyno video display this week, here’s one that deserves every inch of volume you can muster. While we wouldn’t call ourselves Italian super car fans here at BangShift,...
Drag Freak Video: Watch George Eiserer’s 1993 Lumina APV Pro Mod Mini-Van Run 6s At 200+ In 1998!
Apr 16, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
Only the hardest core Pro Mod fans will remember the insane and pretty bad ass 1993 Lumina APV van campaigned by Missouri native George Eiserer. This thing was build by Ron Meek Race Cars, rolled on...
What Did Drag Racers Think Of The “New” Christmas Tree In 1964? They Hated It! Here’s Proof
Apr 16, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
(Lead photo credit: Mark Rebilas) – Today we think nothing of seeing two drag racing cars leave the starting line after a brilliant flash of yellow or a sequence of yellow lights followed by a...
Logging Redwoods: This 1946 Video Provides An Amazing Glimpse Into How The Giants Came Down
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
There’s a part of us that winces when we see a video where some of the oldest things on Earth are crashing to the ground but the reality is that California Redwood was (and still is) a pretty...
Historic Drag Video: The 1973 Manufacturer Funny Car Showdown From Byron Dragway!
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesHISTORIC, Videos
Since today’s the day that Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2017 arrives at historic Byron Dragway in Illinois, we thought it would be cool to look back on the good old days of the class in the form...
Watch Dave West’s Massive Racing Big Rig Crash From New Zealand
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
BangShifter Brenhan Chapman sent me an email with a link to the footage below and it is pretty stunning stuff. You are about to see racer Dave West in a Freightliner Argosy suffer the worst wreck we...
Ride Along During An Unlimited Hydroplane Race – 3,000hp Boats Racing Hull to Hull!
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
We’ve shown you H1 Unlimited Hydroplanes before, but the whole concept of 200 mph boats racing hull-to-hull is good enough to bring up from time to time, we think. It takes some serious gumption to...
The World’s Most Pissed Off One Cylinder Engine Is Turbocharged AND Packs A Screw Blower!
Apr 16, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
First thing we have to do here is tell you that the audio in the video is kinda of sucky. That’s not a deal breaker for us though because it is good enough to hear this single cylinder engine...
Is The Zephyr Mini Super Charg’r The Most Hilariously Bad Bolt On In Automotive History?
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift News
Through virtually every moment of automotive history there have been people selling a miracle product that would make a car function better, improve fuel economy, defy the laws of physics, and only...
Watch This Massive English Road Locomotive Make A Tight Turn And Power Up A Hill…In Traffic!
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The British hung onto steam power for road going vehicles lots longer than we did, especially on the heavy duty side of things. There was good reason for it. As wild as it sound to say out loud...
Watching This Miniature Air Cooled Inline Six Engine Run With An Exposed Crank Is The Neatest Thing!
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Miniature engines have been featured many, many times over the years here at BangShift because they are awesome. Most often these are creations completely handmade by their owners and they represent...
The American Powertrain Monday Shift: Ride In Gene Felton’s Stock Car As He Rips Around Sebring!
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
When people think about “vintage racing” they often envision guys in leather helmets and goggles burbling around tracks at the speed of an ice cream truck. Sure, that is part of the whole...
