All In One Run: Watch This 1969 Barracuda Pull A Wheelie, Get Sideways, And Spin On The Same Run!
Jun 17, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This guy garnered a lifetime of drag racing experiences in one pass at Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin. The big tire 1969 Barracuda comes off the starting line with a sweet wheelie and...
Classic Chevy Truck Commercial: Watch A 1972 Chevy C20 Pull A 747!
Jun 17, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Classic truck television commercials are some of our favorite things around here. From the wacky stunts that they had the trucks perform to the claims that were made in the ads, there’s...
Gallery: 20 Photos Of Bitchin’ Pro Street Cars From the BangShift Photo Archive
Jun 17, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, Gallery
(Photos from the BangShift Archive) — We love all different types of cars but the bombastic pro street machines that have bee prowling car shows, cruise nights, fairgrounds, and rumbling down...
This Video Of Huge Navy Hovercraft Launching And Docking From INSIDE A Ship Is Flipping Awesome
Jun 17, 2019Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
These are called LCACs or Landing Craft Air Cushion in long hand. They are exceptionally awesome machines with the ability to handle a 75-ton payload, the snot to reach speeds of more than 70mph on...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Is The Best American Racecar Driver Ever?
Jun 17, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
After watching the 1959 Phil Hill Bonneville video and thinking about the amazing career of Hill and others, it sparked some other thoughts of great American racing drivers and I started a mental...
Science Class Said It Could Happen: Can A Bunch Of Wired-Up Lemons Start A Car?
Jun 17, 2019Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Wiring up a lemon to produce electricity works. Insert copper into one end of a lemon, zinc into another, connect the two points by wire and you can power a low-output source of electricity, with a...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Cleaner Vehicles Flying Into Trees!
Jun 17, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
It’s been a good week. Where’s Lohnes? At a race. Where’s McTaggart? Either at a race or underneath a car he promised to put back together years ago. Where’s Chad? Driving a...
Holley Hot Rod Reunion 2019: The Parade Of Winners From The Show Fields!
Jun 17, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
If you have to pick one day to attend the Holley Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, you go on the last day every single time. Here’s why: the show fields are the show fields. The...
Call It Ingénue: Get A Walk-Around Of The Buick-Powered Buick GS Funny Car!
Jun 17, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
Nostalgia Funny Cars are wonderful things. One look at today’s aerodynamic, bar-of-soap shapes will have you looking at cars like the USA-1 Camaro or the Super Nova and wondering just what the...
This 1954 Willys Jeep Promotional Film Shows Every Awesome And Insane Jeep Attachment Made At That Point
Jun 17, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
This is awesome. This is totally awesome! What you are about to watch is a 1954 Willys Jeep promotional film which happens to show virtually all of the awesome attachments that were available for...
Rocky Mountain Race Week 2019: Our First Gallery From Pueblo, Colorado!
Jun 16, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
Rocky Mountain Race Week is on, and we are out on the road right now! Chad has reached into his back collection of cars and has gotten his first car, his beloved 1969 Camaro ragtop, back into running...
In Memoriam: Rod Hall – The Desert Racer Has Headed Down The Track One Last Time
Jun 16, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
I didn’t know that he was driving down some of the roughest paths that masquerade as “roads” in Baja California. I didn’t know that he had been doing that for years, or that...
Morning Symphony: 1979 BMW M1 ProCar – When Germans Try To Build An Italian Car!
Jun 16, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Of all the adjectives I could use to describe a BMW, “beautiful” and “pretty” aren’t in the mix. Sorry to any BMW fans whose feelings might be stung, but there is only...
Holley Hot Rod Reunion 2019: Friday Afternoon And That First Blast Of Nitro In The Face!
Jun 16, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Drag Races, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, Gallery
If there is one constant theme with the Holley Hot Rod Reunion every year, it’s one thought that rises above all others normally: “Dammit, it’s hot.” Beech Bend in the summer...
