Not Too Forward: 1958 Chrysler New Yorker – Almost Sedate For The Fifties
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper
1958, in the automotive world, was the year where fins and chrome seemed to jump the shark. Every car suddenly sprouted four headlights. Buick sprouted a nightmare for those who hated polishing...
Lawn Mower Mudding – You Needed A New Mower Anyways, Right?
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
I was not expecting to hear my father-in-law say that he was going to bring out the lawn mower the other day. The area around BangShift Mid-West is currently a toss up between muddy and just about...
Classic YouTube: The 1955 Southern 500 at Darlington, Courtesy of Purolator!
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Prior to the infamous 1979 Daytona 500, there were very few ways to see the entirety of a stock car race. Obviously, you could go in person to a track and watch as drivers battled it out for...
Rough Start: 1975 Mercury Bobcat – Enough Rolling Bomb Jokes!
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
Over thirty years of Pinto jokes later, can we look past all of that? Please? They’ve aged out of normal use. You find me someone using a Pinto as a daily driver that isn’t on it’s...
American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This H-Pattern Shifted Mustang Run 7s!
Jan 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Lots of time when we show you a hardcore competition car as part of the American Powertrain Parting Shift it is not being H-pattern shifted. Maybe it has a sequential shifter or a Vertigate type deal...
Hitting The Dusty Trail: Take A Tour Of This Converted TopKick Ambulance!
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of a setup like this: a large truck, a big box on the back to sleep in, and no reason to deal with anybody on the planet anymore. It made sense in my head, but...
Novakill: NASCAR-Powered, 9,400 RPM Nova From Hell On The Burnout Pad
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Looking at all of the footage from Summernats 33, it’s easy to think that you are on another planet with the amount of smoke from the bushfires in the air. The daylight is orange, the haze...
Vanilla Vice: 1989 Dodge Diplomat AHB – Clean As A Whistle!
Jan 09, 2020Bryan McTaggarteBay Find
If you’re in your mid-thirties or older, there is only one automatic response that is appropriate for seeing a refrigerator-white Dodge Diplomat: “Oh, shit, it’s the cops!”...
Gotta Start Somewhere: Getting A Beater V6 Camaro Ready For A First Car
Jan 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartVideos
Oh, the memories of the first car…the learning machine, the ultimate disposable vehicle if you asked your parents. I knew maybe ten kids who got relatively new vehicles for their high school...
GT Wagon: 1972 Ford Gran Torino – Ford Longroof Goodness
Jan 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
The one-year-only body of the 1972 Ford Torino lineup was a visual sleeper hit: the deep grille, the small bumpers, the Coke-bottle shape of the car all came together just right. They only recently...
Big Boy: The Bandag Bullet In Action At Summernats 33’s Skidpad
Jan 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Truck News
There are two ways that you might know Bandag. One is if you are in a field that uses retreaded tires…Bandag is a retread company and they are the tire of choice for fleets like UPS. Or, you...
Patch Panel Pickup: Making New Parts For An Econoline Truck
Jan 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The tin worm scares me like none other. Tiny pinholes are one thing, but if you have ever driven in Ohio, you know what I mean when I say “rot”. Body panels that are returning to the...
Luxury Beast: Meet The Bespoke 520hp, Himalaya Defender 110 LS3 Crew Cab – Big Money Romper
Jan 08, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Online Find, XL Truck Feature, XL Truck News
It’s always cool when we learn of the existence of something new. In this case it was a couple of things. Firstly the fact that there is a company called Himalaya that builds custom Land Rovers...
