High Roller: The 1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé That Ran The Paris-Dakar
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL
What made a desert run to the southern point of the Baja Peninsula work? It wasn’t sponsorships and a ton of advertising dollars, but a desire to push man and machine to the limit on...
Cool Vanilla: 1990 Dodge Ram D150 Muscle Truck, As It Should Have Been
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper, MOPAR, TRUCKS
Rewind back to 1990 for a minute. The truck of the moment, as it had been ever since it debuted, is the updated GM C/K pickup truck. Lifted, slammed, name it, GM trucks were killing it. They were the...
When Giraffes Fly: Cleetus Takes The Controls Of A Cessna For The First Time!
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggartVideos
When I left the Army in 2010, my plan was concrete: I was going to go to school and I was going to learn to fly. I had managed to push through the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration and the...
4WD To Front Wheel Drive In A Snap: Street Gas 4×4 Trucks At Berryville
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
Much like a test-and-tune night on No-Prep Thursdays, or a “public welcome” spectator drags event that ends with broken headlights and someone beating the tar out of someone else in the...
Rough Start: 1968 Dodge Dart Sedan – The Yellow Brick Road To Fun
Jul 30, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find, MOPAR
In the 1990s, Mopar Action magazine built up a 1969 Plymouth Valiant four-door, dubbed it the “Green Brick” and proceeded to road-race the dog snot out of the car. It competed at many...
Pitchin’ Mustang: This 1988 Ford Mustang GT Has Some Interesting, If Not Mysterious Road Racing History
Jul 29, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, Craigslist Find
For the asking price, this seems like one heck of an awesome car. The way that prices are rocking up on Fox platform Mustangs these days, to get one with a 13:1 compression 371ci stroker small block,...
Speed and Sound: Watch A Late 1970s F1 Car with a Cosworth DFV V8 Engine Attack Goodwood!
Jul 29, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
It’s a pretty familiar story in the world of racing, right? Son of operator/owner of large successful company is a talented race car driver and wants to compete at highest levels, company...
Swan Song: As Mitsubishi Fades Into Oblivion, We Look Back At Their Coolest Performance Cars
Jul 29, 2020Brian LohnesApex Car Feature, Apex Sideways, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
(By Tom Lohnes) – With Mitsubishi cutting all sales in Europe and likely here next year, I’ve decided to go into detail of the best Mitsubishi cars ever made. This once great company was...
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MAHLE Motorsport Expands Power Potential for 3.0L BMWs – PowerPak Piston Kits Now Available for S55 and N55 Engines
Jul 29, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 New Drag Race Products, 1320 Sponsor News, Apex New Products, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, New Products, Sponsor News, XL New Truck Products, XL Sponsor News
We know at this point that the engineers at MAHLE Motorsport don’t sleep. How can they? It seems like every week they are raising the piston game with new releases, innovative products, and...
Flying Bricks! Enjoy A Half-Hour Of All-Volvo Rally Footage – Good, Bad And Ugly!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
Volvos are the cars of safety, and have been for decades. They aren’t performance darlings out of the box, but are instead meant to be stronger and safer than the truck that carried them to the...
Mall Cruiser Or Mud-Bogging LuxuryLiner? Bogging In Trars In The Woods!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
I’ve seen HMMWVs sunk up to the top of the windshield frame and LMTVs that couldn’t find any traction whatsoever in the slop. I’ve seen a K5 Blazer on 35-inch tires sunk up the tops...
Old-School Roundy-Round: Picking Up A 1938 Chevy Racer!
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Is it difficult for you to picture a pre-war car as a use and abuse kind of ride? Eighty years on, most are gone, the ones that remain are either restored or modified into some kind of hot rod, but...
Rough Start BOGO: 1979 Chevy Monza 2+2 And 1980 Monza Spyder
Jul 29, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
Finding a Chevy Monza that meets the Rough Start qualifications is a bonus to begin with. H-bodies don’t grow on trees anymore and if you can find one that is still capable of being on the...
