Video: Why You Shouldn’t Blow Donuts in Your Lifted Jeep
Jul 16, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Modern automotive suspensions are awesome and complex, but the components and engineering that go into the suspensions of serious off road trucks are totally wild. Their abilities to bend and flex,...
Top Droppin’ and Wallet Floppin’ – Here’s Three Convertibles To Consider If Fun Is More Important Than Budget
Jul 15, 2020Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
(By Tom Lohnes)- Convertibles have long been the vehicles that we see and want but can’t have. With soft tops and not very much practicality, they’re purely toys for nothing other than driving...
BangShifty Resto Video: Watch This 100 Year Old Gasoline Powered Drag Saw Get Torn Down – So Cool!
Jul 15, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, ENGINES, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
This is the most ambitious project that Mr. Hand Tool Rescue has scooped up and begun the process on in his shop. It’s also the first video we have watched with his narration and that brings...
Dare To Be Awesomely Different: This 1976 Pontiac Grand LeMans Has Looks, Power, and Personality
Jul 15, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, Apex Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find
This right here is some Dare to be Different genius. You are looking at a 1976 Pontiac Grand LeMans coupe that was once a luxury cruiser and is now a warmed up boulevard bruiser. The original 400ci...
Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly
Jul 15, 2020Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper, MOPAR
1968-1970 Dodge Chargers are desirable in a way that few other cars have managed to become. They are brutally handsome, they came from the factory in trims ranging from the rare fuel sipper to...
Cool Video: Watch Cale Yarborough Get Launched Over The Wall At Darlington In 1965 With The and Now Interviews
Jul 15, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
One of the coolest things about old racing video is being able to see and kind of experience things in the moment and scene that they happened. It is one thing to see still photos of stuff but when...
Rough Start: A Pontiac Grand Am That’s Begging For A New Beginning
Jul 15, 2020Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Between the Pontiac Grand Am CA and the Chevrolet Malibu Black Sterling that I recently found, I’ve been foaming at the mouth of a 1978-82 GM A-body build. Look, I like the G-body cars....
Why Was There No 1983 Corvette? A Regular Car Review Story On The C4 Corvette In Detail
Jul 15, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
To be fair, there may not have been a true production run, but there was a run of 1983 Corvette pilots, pre-productions, whatever you want to call it. Out of the 43 cars that were built, only one,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your First High-Performance Driving Experience Like?
Jul 15, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
My helmet was so new that the chemical smell was starting to make me nauseous. I had been messing with the seat controls and the steering wheel adjustment for at least ten minutes trying to find the...
Classic YouTube: Alvin “Tex” Johnston’s Barrel Roll Of The Boeing 367-80 Prototype Over Lake Washington
Jul 15, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
“There are old pilots, there are bold pilots, but there are no old and bold pilots.” That warning is hammered through to every would-be flyer that ever trains, and parallels a much...
Classic YouTube: The Karl Reindler/Steve Owen Crash At The 2011 Perth Super Sprint at Barbagallo
Jul 14, 2020Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Anybody who races goes onto the track knowing, in their heads and hearts, that what they are doing is dangerous. There is no denying that fact…many people have died chasing speed, from the...
The Barra/Granada Swap, Part 6: Running, Driving, And On The Dyno
Jul 14, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
At what point does your enemy become your strongest ally? I’ve made no secret that of all the automobiles ever made, that the one that angers me the most is the Ford Granada/Mercury...
Money No Object: The “Jet-X” 1971 Plymouth GTX
Jul 14, 2020Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper, MOPAR
At the beginning of BangShift.com, one of the earliest stories I can remember reading involved this very car. In the Mopar world, Gary and Pam Beineke had made a name for themselves by building the...
