In The Beginning: 1977 Dodge Colt Dressed Up As Mitsubishi Lancer
May 04, 2020Bryan McTaggartVideos
In the early 1970s, a lot of manufacturers started to look at the idea of a “world car”, a platform that they could sell to multiple markets with the least amount of work necessary for...
Rough Video: Watch Drag Week Veteran Nick Plewniak Suffer A Flaming Wreck In The Dirty 30 At Edgewater Motor Sports Park – He Walked Away
May 04, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
There’s nothing more sickening than watching a person you know and respect pile up a race car at high speeds. Add in a lot of fire and you have a recipe for something really stunning and not in...
The Killer Plane And The American Hero That Tamed It: This Is The Story of Jimmy Doolittle and the Gee Bee R1
May 04, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
This was the fastest land based machine in the world in 1932. It had 45-mph on Sir Malcom Campbell’s land based monster, it had 172-mph on Gar Wood’s boat that packed four massive Packard...
Created Out Of Thin Air: More Work On The KTM-Powered Power Wheels Jeep
May 04, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The KTM-powered Power Wheels Jeep project is getting tidied up before it’s considered done. Yeah, it runs, but there are details that need to be addressed before this little monster is ready to...
This Vintage Simplex Go-Kart With Twin West Bend Engines Is A Perfectly Restored Vision Of 1960s Fun
May 04, 2020Brian LohnesApex Online Find, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find
From a recreational activity that got people together for low key fun more than 50 years ago to one of the most popular and important motorsport disciplines in the world, go-karting sure has come a...
Rough Start: 1978 Buick LeSabre Sport Coupe – Grandpa’s Grand National
May 04, 2020Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
I’ll always advocate an model that isn’t as popular as the typical selections here, mainly because I feel that a lot of good looking machines got overlooked simply because they were a...
Hydroform Your Own Parts At Home With A Grease Gun!
May 03, 2020Chad ReynoldsHack of the Week, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Fluid has incredible power when used properly, and can be used to form metal for all kinds of purposes. Hydroforming, the process where a fluid is used to exert pressure on a material in order to...
The Half-Dead Hornet Road Trip, Part 2: Vacuum-Operated Windshield Wipers?!
May 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartVideos
The worst “running car, driving home” story I’ve got involved the purchase of my Dodge Mirada back in 2009. For $650, the 318 ran well enough, and the electrical system was...
Aluminum Overcast: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker In Action
May 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
Six turnin’, four burnin’. Maybe…depending on whether the carburetor on the 28-cylinder Wasp Major engines had iced up or not. Without a doubt, the B-36 Peacemaker is a jaw-dropping...
Project Binky Update: Turbo, Transmission, And So Much More For This Turbo 4 All Wheel Drive Mini
May 03, 2020Chad ReynoldsApex Car Feature, Apex Project Cars, Apex Video, CAR FEATURES, TECH, Videos
While Project Binky is in the body shop getting the outside, inside, and every nook and cranny painted in preparation for final assembly, there are plenty of parts that need help before all that can...
This Chevrolet Firenza CanAm Is Violence In A Small Package! Check Out This South African Muscle Car!
May 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, CHEVY
The Chevrolet Firenza CanAm is the very angry distant cousin to the Vauxhall Firenza, a handsome enough coupe based on the otherwise homely Vauxhall Viva. Look at it…are you getting an odd hint...
Our Pre Coronavirus Autorama Photos Continue: These Have Never Been Seen Before
May 03, 2020Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, Car Shows
We told you we had a bunch of cool show photos, and here they are. When BANGshifter Scott Liggett hit the Autorama to snap photos for all of you to enjoy back in March, he sent them to our Dropbox,...
Historical Footage: A 1920s Dodge Brothers Sedan Taking All The Punishment That A Trip To The Oil Well Could Provide
May 03, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Mud, dirt, arroyos, rocks, sand, hills…you’d be hard-pressed to convince some diesel truck guys to take their pretty bro-dozers off-road, but for this early 1920s Dodge Brothers sedan,...
