Happy Birthday To The BUFF! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress First Flew On This Day In 1952!
Apr 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, HISTORIC, Videos, XL Videos
April 15th, 1952 is a significant day for aviation. It is the day that the YB-52 prototype aircraft, the predecessor to the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber, first flew with A. “Tex”...
Awesome Video: 1966 Footage From The Swamp Buggy Races In Naples, Florida
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
What lots of people did not know in the 1980s when American Sports Cavalcade started covering swamp buggy recession Naples, Florida is that the “sport” has started long before the...
Monday Shopper: 1971 Ford Mustang Boss 351 – When You Want To Mess With Everyone’s Head!
Apr 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartFORD, Monday Shopper
Ford had a surprise for everybody in 1971: the Mustang went into full “Fat Elvis” mode. The platform was more-or-less the same car that had been around since the beginning. Yes, the...
Amazing Machine: This Video Of An Inter-Drain Trenchless V-Plow Drainage Pipe Layer Had Us Spellbound
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
As I have said many times before, it is easy to lose faith in the human race on a day to day basis but when you’re able to get past the top layer of badness, we’re still doing some...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: The Usual Drama Du Jour! (That’s French, Too!)
Apr 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
It’s been a strange, busy week for us at BangShift. Chad’s getting down, dirty and greasy with his projects, I’ve been at OSCR VI, and Lohnes has been making his rounds and covering...
How The Madness Started: This Video From The 1992 Hot Rod Magazine Fastest Street Car Shootout Rules
Apr 15, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
In many ways, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week is the natural evolution of a bunch of different forces coming together. The increasing want and need to have cars that were both brutally fast and...
Rough Start: Why Not C4 Yourself? A Budget 1986 Corvette Track Car Is What You Need!
Apr 15, 2019Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, Craigslist Find
I can find plenty of Camaros, Monte Carlos, even El Caminos and their GM cousins at tracks across the country. C4 Corvettes, however, not so much. Why is that? How has America’s sports car...
World’s Fastest Wrecker -The Story Of A Big Block Chevy Powered, Holmes 440 Equipped, Speed Machine
Apr 15, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Street Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
This is the kind of stuff that we love. Like literally love. Who out there knew that in 1979 the Ernest Holmes company decided to set the world’s closed course speed record for a wrecker and...
Holley EFI Outlaw Street Car Reunion VI: When Qualifying Beats Eliminations – Our Last Gallery!
Apr 15, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
There is one certainty in western Kentucky: if it is spring, do not place bets on the weather if the forecast isn’t perfectly sunny for a week solid. Unfortunately, weather slammed the door on...
Saving Weight In Your Car Might Be Easier Than You Think! Here Are 5 Tips For Shedding Pounds.
Apr 14, 2019Chad Reynolds1320 Tech Story, 1320 Videos, Apex Tech Stories, Apex Video
Every race class has got some minimum weight for the car, or car and driver, and since the dawn of time racers have been working to shed pounds from their cars in search of better performance. In...
Daddy Dave Goes Twin Turbo On Goliath! Here Is The First Look From 1320Video.
Apr 14, 2019Chad Reynolds1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos
The guys and gals of the Street Outlaws seem to always be shuffling and angling to see who can get an edge over the competition whether on the track or on the street. The changes are usually to the...
Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Goodguys Show In Del Mar California
Apr 14, 2019Chad ReynoldsAutocross / Pro Touring, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) Well this is it, our last batch of photos from the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association Del Mar Nationals in sunny SoCal. This event is one of our favorites each year and we...
BangShift Question Of The Day: The Mid-Engined C8 Corvette…Are You Ready?
Apr 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, CHEVY
I want to start today’s Question of the Day with my own question: do you miss the days when there wasn’t sight or sound of the upcoming new model until the day the dealerships covered the...
The Honda Trail 70 Revival: Clearing Out The Fuel System And Seeing If It Will Run
Apr 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
I’m completely and utterly enamored with the revival of this 1972 Honda CT-70 Trail 70 motorcycle, mostly because I cut my teeth (and a few other body parts) riding one of these around on...
