Is Tesla On The Verge Of Financial Ruin? Fiscal Micromanagement Instituted To Conserve Cash
May 21, 2019Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
It’s all about the cashflow when you have a business. What’s leaving and what’s coming in. If you have more leaving than coming in, this is when the server problems start. For the...
In Memoriam: Niki Lauda, Formula One’s Bastion Of Brutal Honesty
May 21, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
In the entire time that I’ve been enamored with these machines that we affix feelings to, develop emotional bonds for, and cherish, I haven’t paid much attention to the world of Formula...
The Alternative: A 1976 Mercury Capri II That Is Somehow Still Alive!
May 21, 2019Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, FORD
As much as I happen to like them, the Mustang II is a very unloved little car. Nevermind that it sold well early on, nevermind that it kept the Mustang name alive through the 1970s, nevermind that a...
The Road Less Traveled: This 1975 Pontiac LeMans Needs An Alternative Build Plan!
May 21, 2019Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
My normal reaction whenever I see a clean 1970s-era GM A-body: “Oh, cool, it’s kind of like the Chevelle I used to own. Make power, praise handling, decry gigantic bumpers.”...
Unglamorous And Necessary: Scraping Undercoating From The Bottle Rocket Coronet
May 21, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Project Cars, BangShift 1320, MOPAR, Project Cars, TECH, Videos
The rust-adverse among us might be ever grateful that factory undercoating was hosed all over the underside of the car but if you are honest about being hard-core about racing, all you see is...
The Old Backwards Monster Truck Jump Trick: Watch Black Stallion Get it Done (Kind Of)
May 20, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Monster trucks have been doing wacky stuff for years and years. It only took a little while for the general public to tire of simply seeing the trucks crush cars. Then they started racing side by...
BangShift Destination Photo Gallery: The Massive Pumping Engines Of The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum – Watertown, Massachusetts
May 20, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Gallery, XL Spotlight
It’s always amazing when you live near something incredible and had no idea it existed. Such was the case with me and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Watertown, Massachusetts. This place...
Incredible Video: Calling These Model Trains Is Like Calling The Eiffel Tower A Pile Of Metal
May 20, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – When you think of model railroads, do you think about a sorry circle of track around the Christmas tree and a few Lionel cars and a locomotive pulling them? Or maybe a loop...
Sporting Little Thing: A GM V6-Powered 1977 MGB Roadster For Open-Air Types
May 20, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Online Find, BangShift APEX
I might not be able to get my head wrapped around little sporting Euro-roadsters like the Fiat 124 Spider, Triumph TR7 and MGB, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t try. The MGB had a great...
Morning Symphony: 1977 Tyrrell P34 – The Six-Wheeled Wonder At Imola
May 20, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Innovate or die. That’s the way motorsports works…you look for any kind of advantage, any kind of gain that will put you ahead of the pack and you run with it until either you succeed and...
Rough Start: Germany And USA In One Package In A 1995 BMW 318ti!
May 20, 2019Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, OTHER
One of Ford’s snarkiest commercials was for the 2007 Shelby GT500. As a white-and-blue one is unloaded from a ship, the stevedore pops off with, “So, you couldn’t find a car you...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: That Poor, Poor Gator.
May 20, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
And in the blink of an eye, we have progressed through the lovely part of Spring and have skipped straight into the humidity and heat of summer. Or, at least, that’s what I’m telling...
Could This Be The Baddest Diesel Truck On The Planet? This Cummins Swapped S10 Is A Beast
May 19, 2019Chad Reynolds1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos
When the 1320Video crew visits a race, you know it is going to be a good one. The Ultimate Call Out Challenge is one of those events, but this one is full of nothing but diesel powered machines. That...
