BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Really Need Power To Enjoy Driving?
May 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
I never owned a Dodge Ram 50, but I used one for one of my first paying jobs, well before I was legal to actually drive. It more or less looked like the pictured vehicle, though it wasn’t as...
1320 Gallery, 1320 Spotlight, Apex Gallery, Apex Spotlight, Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Drag Races, Gallery, Off-Road, XL Gallery, XL Spotlight
Holley LSFest West In Las Vegas Was One Bad Ass Event And Here Is Where Our Photos Start
May 07, 2019Chad Reynolds1320 Gallery, 1320 Spotlight, Apex Gallery, Apex Spotlight, Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, Drag Races, Gallery, Off-Road, XL Gallery, XL Spotlight
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) We were at Holley’s LSFest West in Las Vegas all weekend long and are trying to recover from sensory overload now that we’re back home. With drifting, off-road...
The Good Old Days: Working In A Sulzer Plant Back In The 1930s
May 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
When Kevin Brown sent me the link to this video, I noted gigantic metal parts and instantly had to click. So what if the footage is in black-and-white, if there’s large-scale engines and...
Rough Start: The Boat-Tail Bomber! A Buick Riviera That Could Either Get It’s Old Engine Back, Or…
May 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Ahhh, dammit, my weakness: cars that look like race car extras from any Dukes of Hazzard episode! Inappropriate vehicles give the semi-stock car look encourages violent driving in my book. It’s...
The Honda Trail 70 Revival: Can’t Run Well If It Can’t Get Any Fuel!
May 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
Welcome back to my latest obsession, the revival of this 1972 Honda CT-70 minibike. I’m all about this semi restoration project because I bombed around fire roads and trails in the Pacific...
WTF IS THAT: The Bad, Worse And Just Plain Disgusting Sides Of Maintaining Old Buses
May 07, 2019Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, TECH, Videos
The closest thing I have to compare working on buses made shortly after World War II, like the guy behind Bus Grease Monkey does on a regular basis, is Army motorpool work, where pretty much...
This Turbocharged, Nitrous Fed, AIR COOLED, Tube Chassis Beetle Runs 7.60s At Nearly 200
May 06, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
As far as cars that have historically “punched above their weight class” in drag racing, few can match the ferocity of the air cooled VW. Because they sold in such massive quantities...
The V8 Lada Swap: The Russian Freakshow Is Now A Twin-Stick!
May 06, 2019Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The last time we saw this Lada, the one that has had a V8 engine from a ZiL work truck dumped into the engine bay, we got to see torque on display, and not much else. The 7.0L engine is not a rev...
Awesome Video: EJ Potter Runs the Widow Maker V8 Bike in the 1990s!
May 06, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We’re still smarting from the news of the Michigan Madman’s passing several years ago. In his memory, here’s the best video you’ll ever see of EJ Potter atop his legendary V8...
Build, Break, Now Repair: Fixing Problems In A 1955 Chevy With Hoonigan (And Daughter!)
May 06, 2019Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
It’s been a minute since the infamous race at the Winternationals between Jon Chase and Mike Finnegan. Both sides had serious problems with their 1955 Chevrolets, but ultimately it was Chase...
Watch A Kuwaiti Tank Crew Slide And Roll Their Battle Tank At The Russian International Tank Biathlon
May 06, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Since 2013, Russia has been holding an international tank biathlon where several countries like China, Kuwait, and several that have names ending in “stan” show up to test their mettle...
BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye: It’s Overkill! Glorious Overkill!
May 06, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift Road Tests, MOPAR
I own a Chrysler 300C, which is the equivalent of a Dodge Challenger R/T. The 5.7L Hemi makes decent power and the right noises, and gets the job done. Or does it? Maybe not. You can step down to the...
Watch This Fully Restored And Regularly Flown P-51 Mustang Test Out Its .50 Caliber Machine Guns
May 06, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
There are few people in the world that own operational P-51 Mustangs. Those that do own them did not just fall into them by some sort of happy accident. Nope, those men and women are captains of...
