Money No Object: The Ridler Award-Winning “Imagine” 1957 Chevrolet
Aug 11, 2019Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper
Let’s not beat around the bush: when the 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air known as “Imagine” was announced as the 2018 Ridler Award winner, there was controversy. First off, because the car...
Beta Testing Gone Wrong: Here’s The First Publicly Crashed C8 Corvette!
Aug 11, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
It was bound to happen. Eventually, a C8 Corvette was going to bite the dust outside of official crash testing procedures. We expected the first one to appear in Copart, or maybe at Cleveland Race...
Bonneville Record Breaker: This 1963 Film Shows Andy Granatelli Hauling On The Salt
Aug 10, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Here’s some fun Bonneville video but it ain’t from speed week! Nope this video was made in 1963 by Studebaker to promote the safety and performance of the beautiful Avanti model. The...
Flyin Blind: Watch Jim Pace Haul Around Spa In Driving Rain Looking Through A Broken Opaque Windshield
Aug 10, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Jim Pace has been our adopted road racing boss here at BangShift for years. This video may be his crowning one here on these electronic pages. Why? You are about to watch the man take one of the most...
2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Celebrating Three Years Of Chevrolet In One Massive Throw-Down!
Aug 10, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Drag Races, DRAG RACES, Event Coverage, Gallery
Bowling Green is home of the Corvette, right? Not this weekend. Right now, Chevrolet’s sports car is taking one huge backseat to the legendary Tri-Five Chevrolets. Be it 150, 210, Bel Air,...
The Bad Obsession Boys Cummins Swap Their Escargot Car Hauler Project
Aug 10, 2019Chad ReynoldsXL Spotlight, XL Videos
Cummins swapping a square body or something like that has become sort of common, even if it is a lot of work, but when the Bad Obsession Motorsports boys from England decided they needed to dump...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Love To See Return To Drag Racing?
Aug 10, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift Question Of The Day??
Nitro. Nitrous. Personalities. Actual names on the cars instead of sponsorships. Funny car bodies that don’t look like someone did quick bar-soap art while scrubbing themselves down in the...
Morning Symphony: Bugatti EB110 SS LeMans and IMSA Racers – Stretching The Legs Of Giants
Aug 10, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
From the moment you first hear the engine and see the livery adorning the body, a race car is all about getting your attention and holding onto it. That’s the truth…most race cars are...
Pro-Jacks: The Most Bad Ass Race Car Accessory You’ll Have That Doesn’t Make It Faster
Aug 10, 2019Chad Reynolds1320 Spotlight, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
In this video the always entertaining Tim McAmis talks about Pro-Jacks. On their own, Pro-Jacks won’t make your car quicker or faster, but they are one of the more bad ass things you can have...
Down The Rabbit Hole: The Lost Volkswagen/Checker Taxi Prototype Has Resurfaced!
Aug 10, 2019Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Checker Motors knew that they had to get their taxi products to be more fuel efficient. They also knew that their Marathon/A11 line was beyond ancient and needed to be replaced as soon as possible....
Disaster Video: Incredible Footage Of The Yellow River Drag Strip Calamity Has Surfaced – 50 Years Ago, 11 Killed
Aug 09, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
50 years ago the worst disaster in drag racing occurred at a little known, little spoken about track about 40 miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Yellow River Drag Strip was like so many places in...
Get In On The American Powertrain Summer Smokeout Sweepstakes – It’s FREE To Enter!
Aug 09, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Sponsor News, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, Sponsor News, XL Sponsor News
The crew at American Powertrain are at it again! This time they have created the Summer Smokeout Sweepstakes, a free to enter giveaway that will net the lucky winner a $300 American Powertrain gift...
