Springtime Green: It’s Not Everyday A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Pops Up!
Mar 19, 2019Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, eBay Find
Let’s see here: the trees are budding out, the grass is starting to get tall enough to mow, the dandelions are bringing some kind of color to the yard, and I got my first bit of pulse-racing...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Brands Get Their Own Engines Again?
Mar 19, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
In 1977, General Motors experienced blowback when Oldsmobile owners noticed that their “Rocket 350” engines were, in fact, Chevrolet blocks. Buick V6s powered seemingly everything. The...
Win At All Costs: These Two Tough Truck XJ Cherokees Battle It Out!
Mar 19, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
I am of the mindset that if American Motors had managed to hang on just another four years, that we’d still have the Big Four. Hear me out: Their main products at the time were the XJ Cherokee,...
TX2K19: When Being A Quick Street Car Just Isn’t Enough, Bring Out The Monsters
Mar 19, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
TX2K events are wild to me for one reason and one reason only: the “holy ….” factor involved when the E.T. and MPH numbers flash on the boards. You can have a quick street car all...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Wild, Wild Mustang” by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones (1964)
Mar 19, 2019Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
You may not know the name of the song. But as soon as the opening notes play, young or old, you know the song. It’s a folk song that comes from the Eastern Mediterranean region, one that has...
Ride Shotgun In A Thundering Daytona Prototype At Sebring – Jim Pace In-Car Action Supreme
Mar 18, 2019Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
This killer in-car video with BangShift’s adopted road racing hero Jim Pace is great and you are going to love it. This footage is from the 2014 12-Hours of Sebring which is run as part of the...
Aeromotive Takes You Through The Hows, Whys Of Vacuum And Boost Referenced Fuel Pressure Regulators For Carb’d Engines
Mar 18, 2019Brian Lohnes1320 Engine Tech, 1320 Tech Story, BangShift 1320
Never in the history of hot rodding has more horsepower and more technology been available to regular guys. This is a great thing but it can also be confusing and tough to figure out what components...
Crown Vic Drifting: Project Neighbor Hangs The Tail Out Like A Boss
Mar 18, 2019Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, FORD
Ford fought tooth-and-nail to fight downsizing in the late 1970s. GM had shrunk the Impala and Caprice and walked away smelling like a rose. The race was on…who would be the next to shrink...
Money No Object: The Prototype Dodge Big Horn Short-Nose
Mar 18, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
There is only one aspect where Brian Lohnes and I share a focus on odd Mopars. He loves the big trucks, and high on his list is the Dodge Big Horn, also known as the CN/CNT900. Between the latter end...
The Marcos: Take A Closer Look At A Low-Slung British Rarity!
Mar 18, 2019Bryan McTaggartVideos
In the library of Sedgwick Junior High there were a catalog of four books that I’m pretty sure I was the only kid to check out in at least a decade. I can’t remember the names of the...
This Video Compilation Of Big Trucks Taking On Rivers And Winning Is Awesome
Mar 18, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
It is a Saturday and this is a Saturday type video. We ran across this collection of big rigs from around the world taking on rivers and winning. We don’t care who you are, how tough you are or...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: More Bus Driver Memories!
Mar 18, 2019Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Normally, here is where I’d celebrate the arrival of Spring and the fact that I actually mowed my onion patch lawn today, but it doesn’t seem right seeing how the entire state of Nebraska...
RacingJunk Find: 1971 Mercury Comet With A 347…Street Car Material!
Mar 18, 2019Bryan McTaggart1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, FORD, Racing Junk Find
Junior supercars were the smartest move that the Big Four made at the turn of the 1970s. Insurance companies had targeted the popular and brash musclecars of lore and were bent on punishing the...
Icelandic Formula Off Road Action – Watch A Bunch Of Different Rigs Dominate A Cliff Face
Mar 18, 2019Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
The world of Icelandic Formula Off-Road racing is pretty awesome. The rigs that they build are full tube chassis jobs often with big blocks sporting nitrous. Turbos are now making their presence felt...
