The “WTF?!” Files: 1976 Ford F-100 Custom, With Oldsmobile 455 Heartbeat!
Jul 13, 2020Bryan McTaggartFORD, Monday Shopper, TRUCKS
The Ford F-series has been America’s best selling full-size pickup for what feels like for-freaking-ever. Why is that? Because every generation of F-series brought enough to the table to be an...
Morning Symphony: Fairbanks-Morse Engines At Startup
Jul 13, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
For a company came about as a merger between one unit that made cast-iron plows, heating stoves and scales, and another that made what is easily the most iconic windmill design of all time, the...
Classic YouTube: EVOC Training For The California Highway Patrol – 9C1 Caprices, B4C Camaro and SSP Mustangs!
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, FORD, HISTORIC, Videos
The only way to become proficient at something is to do it until you master it. Doesn’t matter if it’s learning to play a musical instrument or shooting a machine gun, do it enough times...
Morning Symphony: Mercedes Carlsson SLK 340 – Tease Your Ears With The Sound Of A Judd V8 At Full Fury!
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Three-point-four liters. Roughly 208 cubic inches. Just under three horsepower per cubic inch. Yes, this Mercedes SLK is one bad mother, and the noise it makes…that’s the kind of shriek...
What Does A Chrysler 360 Need In Order To Rock? Check Out This Bit Of Dyno Work!
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
The Chrysler 360, the unsung small-block of Ma Mopar’s list. It’s not the screamer 340 that powered Dusters, Demons and the like, and it’s not the anvil 318 that came in just about...
Daddy Long-Legs: The History Of The CH-54 Tarhe Heavy Lift Helicopter
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Those with an ear for helicopter engines can pick out certain noises. The wop-wop-wop of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, for example, or the flat roar of an AH-64 Apache. One of the more distinctive noises...
2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Square Bodies In The Sunshine
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Car Shows, Event Coverage, Gallery
If there is one vehicle that I believe Brian, Chad and I all agree on 100%, it would be a GM truck. We might not agree on year, engine, setup, model or purpose, but we all can agree that we can find...
Historical Video: Tazio Nuvolari’s Bombshell Win At The 1935 German Grand Prix
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Taizo Nuvolari is one of those drivers whose name has become legendary in certain circles. Ferdinand Porsche considered the best racing driver, period and Enzo Ferrari championed him as the inventor...
Seasoning The Floor Pan: Preparing The Interior Of The Independence Chevelle
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartMISC, Videos
No, it hasn’t just fallen apart and no, he hasn’t stopped working on it. Vice Grip Garage’s 1970 Malibu known as Independence is still coming together from it’s haggard,...
Random Car Review: 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic “Black Sterling” Concept
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartCHEVY
Towards the end of the 1970s, GM saw the writing on the wall: cars had finally reached peak mass and needed to be shrunken if the company was going to have any hope in Hell of making profits in the...
Vintage Drag Video: Early 1970s Funny Car Action From Illinois’ Motion Raceway
Jul 10, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift 1320
There’s nothing quite like vintage drag strip videos from the 1970s featuring some of the neatest funny cars of the era. This particular video was shot in 8mm format at Motion Raceway in...
