NHRA Insider Podcast: Chatting With Champions – Great Conversations with Shawn Langdon and Luke Bogacki
May 11, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
It’s always fun to talk to people who are champions in a particular sport or dominant in a particular field. In drag racing, these are unique people who have channeled abilities and some of us...
BangShift Tune-Up: “When Worlds Collide” by Powerman 5000 (1999)
May 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
The first time I heard this song, it was like that refreshing slap to the face you never knew you needed. I can tell you exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard it: Right at the end of...
The Behemoth Returns: Ford Will Bring Back The Excursion – The Large By Huge SUV Isn’t Dead Yet
May 11, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, XL Big Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Excursion was and is a valuable car. Based on F-250 underpinnings, the Excursion could be had with a yeoman 5.4-liter Triton V8 or a tough as nails 7.3-liter Power...
BangShift Top 11: Unnecessary Automotive Nose Swaps
May 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartTop 11
Whenever I got the itch to take the “back way” to Phoenix from Prescott, Arizona, I was ready for two of my favorite things about the trip. The first was the section of Highway 89 between...
Weird, Rusty, Slow, and Rare: This Factory Perkins Diesel Powered 1960 Plymouth Belvedere Is Awesome
May 11, 2020Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find
Major props to my fellow announcer guy Lee Sebring for sending this link along. Without him we would have never seen this car or fallen down the complete rabbit hole that is weirdo 1950s and early...
Vulgar Display: Off-Roading Rowdiness In “Holy Horsepower Vol. 6” From MadRam11
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, Videos, XL Videos
Does anything beat some good old, down and dirty fun? Not if you are into off-roading, it doesn’t. Where else can you bring as little or as much horsepower as you want and show off to your...
Sleeper Videos: The Eastwood Motorsports Caprice Wagon On Asphalt And The Dragstrip
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We’ve got more videos of Eastwood Motorsport’s 1989 Chevrolet Caprice wagon playing the role of Clark Griswold’s ultimate revenge for the Family Truckster. This battered and beaten...
Classic YouTube: Peter Brock Caning The Hell Out Of His Holden At Bathurst In 1991
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Peter Brock might have had issues as a human. He might have been a bit out of his head at moments. But nobody, anywhere, can deny that the man could drive his ass off, and his record from his early...
The Challenger Revival, Part 15: Window Trim And Glass Installation
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
Pandemic or not, projects are still in need of work and work they shall get. It’s the best way to spend the time stuck at home, isn’t it? You were told that you didn’t need to go...
Morning Symphony: 1970 Trans-Am Soundtrack From The Track
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
The ponycars have a lasting legacy, but why? Mustang appealed to the up-and-coming Boomers who had the cash to spend, but that wouldn’t be enough. The bright colors and the spats and spoilers...
Before Shutdown Greatness: More Pre-Coronavirus Autorama Photos From Omaha
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery
With Chad in Tulsa covering the Throwdown this weekend, I’ve had the full run of BangShift and putting this piece out, it feels weird…I’d actually have to go back into my history to...
Driving Movie Slapfight: Vanishing Point – Wide-Open On The Best Roads In The West
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartSlapfight
Brian…what were you thinking picking the Blue Max? You picked a one-trick pony in the shape of a Funny Car, that was supposed to be in the shape of a Plymouth Arrow. I know you’re...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Long Tall Sally” and “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard
May 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
When I think of Little Richard, what immediately comes to mind is Donald and Daisy Duck dancing in some Disney-approved music video that would appear between regular cartoons. On the surface to a...
