Flat Out For 100,000 – 1964 Mercury Durability Test At Daytona Had 289 Comets Running For 40 Days Straight
Jul 15, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
How do you prove to the general public that you make tough, cool, and hard running cars for them to buy? Well, if you were Mercury (Ford’s excitement division at that point) you put your heads...
Incredible Video: Watch A Flying Hunk Of Blower Miss A Video Guy By Inches Or Less!
Jul 15, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This is quite possibly the closest “near miss” ever caught on film at a drag strip. No, we’re not talking about a near crash, we’re talking about a video guy nearly being...
FREE LIVE Streaming Video From The Western States Championship TODAY!
Jul 14, 2019Chad Reynolds1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Spotlight
That’s right folks, we’ll be LIVE from the Western States Championship at Sacramento Raceway ALL WEEKEND thanks to support from West Coast Architectural Sheet Metal who will be our...
Monster Carnage Video: Check Out This 4-Minute Compilation Of Monster Truck Crashes From The Old PENDA Series!
Jul 14, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Event Coverage, XL Videos
I’m probably wrong about this but in my mind the pinnacle of monster truck “racing” came during the PENDA monster truck series time frame. I’m not talking about freestyle or...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Build To Just Piss People Off?
Jul 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, Videos
Most people strive to not be a problem to others in their day to day lives. Regardless of what they might say, they don’t want trouble, they don’t want conflict. They just want to...
Pontiac Power! This Iron Block, Kauffman Headed, Blown Ram Air III Engine Ran 8.0s In A Dragster – Ooga Booga!
Jul 14, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320
This is totally flipping awesome. We love when guys throw their heart, soul, and wallet into doing something different in racing. Hell, it is one of the foundational reasons that we love the world of...
Rough Start: 1976 Oldsmobile Omega – Mostly Camaro, Kind Of Nova, Plenty Of Potential!
Jul 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
It’s small wonder that I like Olds Omegas…I grew up in one. We had the 1975 with the bent-nose, a Chevy straight-six, and the cool floor-shift automatic. My brother and I rode in the...
Deep Fix: Can This Absolutely Battered Matchbox Impala Be Restored?
Jul 14, 2019Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
I’m pretty sure that I went through a few thousand Hot Wheels and Matchbox toy cars over my childhood. I had tons of the things…a 1955 Thunderbird with the real rubber tires, the Plymouth...
Three Minutes Of Awesome: Watch The 2,400hp Coga Peterbilt Drag Race, Burnout, Pull Trailers, Twist, and More!
Jul 14, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
As we have shown you over the years, the men who live in the Great White North know how to throw down with serious skill in the realm of brutally powerful big rig trucks. In the case of the video...
Behind The Scenes Video: The Wild Scene At US Nationals Stock Eliminator Teardown!
Jul 13, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, ENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
There’s good and bad to everything in life, right? In drag racing there’s also good and bad when you get called to the infamous “tech barn” especially when we are talking...
Who Wouldn’t Want To Haul Ass Across The Desert Behind The Wheel Of This?!?!
Jul 13, 2019Chad ReynoldsXL Online Find, XL Spotlight
We’ve always got the hankering to drive fast across the desert in a race truck, buggy, or car. In fact it is one of the things I truly want to race more than a lot of other things. Sure my list...
Lohnes-Bait: This 1945 REO Speed Wagon Should Do The Trick!
Jul 13, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Online Find
Faster than he can belt out, “…and I’m gonna keep on lovin’ you”, Lohnes will probably be head-over-heels for this 1945 REO Speed Wagon. It’s got all of the...
Welding Isn’t Rocket Science, But Here Are The 7 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Doing It
Jul 13, 2019Chad ReynoldsTECH, Tech Stories, Videos
I’ve been welding for 40 years in some form or fashion. I’m not the baddest ass welder on earth, I don’t do it often enough anymore to be as good as I used to be, but anyone can be...
Finnegan Wants To Trade His Enclosed Ramp Truck For ALMOST ANYTHING ELSE!!!
Jul 13, 2019Chad ReynoldsFUNNY STUFF, Videos, XL Spotlight, XL Videos
So late last year Finnegan and Dave bought another square body ramp truck, but this one was enclosed. This was before buying the white enclosed ramp truck now known as Square Force 1. As cool as...
