Happy New Year From Your Friends At BangShift.com!
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Usually, we run our New Year piece on January 1st, but I think I speak for everybody in the room when I say that this year cannot be over soon enough. Look, let’s be very honest here for a...
Pocket Rocket: This Fiat 500 Has A V8 Made Of Two Hayabusa Engines, Fender Flares For Days, and We Want It!
Dec 31, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, ENGINES, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
There’s a certain awesomeness that we continue to discover and rediscover about the European hillclimb scene. The fact that it’s all a giant kind of run-whatcha-brung scene is so...
Horsepower Costs Money: Wrangler 392 Pricing Is Coming In Hot – Have $70,000+ For A Jeep?
Dec 31, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Truck News
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ram 1500 TRX might be the craziest truck ever made, pushing 700 horsepower, doing the sprint from 0-60 miles per hour in 3.7 seconds, and being the single best factory...
Cool Old Video: Did You Know That GMC Worked With Lotus On Active Suspension For Trucks In The Late 1980s?
Dec 31, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
This is one of those, “wait…what?” moments for us. Apparently in the late 1980s General Motors and Lotus were working together on active suspension systems and the plan was...
Out Of Gas At 41,000ft: The Unbelievable Story Of The Gimli Glider – Bad Math and Incredible Pilots End In A Miracle
Dec 31, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
On July 23, 1983 a Canada Air 767 with 61 passengers and eight crew aboard ran out of fuel while flying over a remote area of Ontario, Canada at 41,000ft. The pilot and co-pilot were able to take the...
Unhinged Top 11: McTaggart’s 2020 Year In Review
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggartTop 11, Unhinged
I think that the best way I can summarize what 2020 means to me, in one simple sentence, is this: “Somehow, I managed to not start drinking again.” Holy hell, who pissed off what god?...
Knowledge Is Power: Check Out The ARP Product Guides Guides For LS/LT, Coyote, and Gen III Hemi Engines Here!
Dec 31, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Sponsor News, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, Sponsor News, XL Sponsor News
In today’s world of engine building you have no excuse for using substandard fasteners. ARP, the industry leader in high performance bolts and fasteners literally makes it so easy to get the...
Best of 2020: Getting Up-Close With The Period-Correct Pro Stock Dodge Challenger
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
What can I say…everything fell into place just right for this photo shoot to happen. After Kevin from Junkyard Digs tipped me off to a Marketplace ad for a 1971 Dodge Challenger that looked...
Best of 2020: This Swapped Honda Insight Dropped Jaws At Rocky Mountain Race Week!
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
In one lane, a red Shelby GT500. One of the first “new” Shelby Mustangs, the S197 hot rod was 500 horsepower of red-blooded Blue Oval that straight ripped. Forget all the Cars and Coffee...
Best of 2020: Fixing A Dump Truck’s Broken Rear Axle In Pakistan
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
If there was one really big automotive take-away from my time spent in Iraq, it was that if you had a medium-duty truck of just about any type, you had the ability to work. Flatbed, dump, stakebed,...
Best of 2020: This Kid Drives A Truck And Runs The Gears Better Than You
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
When I was nine years old, I thought I was leaps and bounds over everybody else by being able to drive a car. Get in, start it, move it around without hitting anything, even drive it around a little...
The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future
Dec 30, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos
It was monumental news when Toyota said that it was going to step up its truck game in the early 1990s with the addition of the T100 model. This was going to be a small-ish truck that was kind of in...
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Ridetech Air Or Coil Over Suspension For Your 2007-2013 Chevrolet or GMC Truck Rules – Tubular Control Arms, Bolt In Four-Link, More
Dec 30, 2020Brian LohnesApex New Products, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, New Products, Sponsor News, XL New Truck Products, XL Sponsor News, XL Suspension Tech, XL Tech Stories, XL Truck News
The GMT900 truck platform is an awesome one and like its predecessors, sold like hotcakes for years. There are millions of these trucks in the 2007-2013 time frame on the road and many of them are...
The Toyota Land Cruiser Is Dead In America: Somehow Toyota Couldn’t Sell A Big Luxury SUV On A Continent Full Of Them
Dec 30, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Street Truck Feature, XL Truck News
(By Tom Lohnes) – After more than 60 years of production, off-road dominance, and consistent reliability, The Toyota Land Cruiser is dead in the U.S market. What is responsible for the Land...
