Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: Corner Gripping And Ripping
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, Gallery, OTHER, Truck / Tractor Events
Texas might be the pickup truck haven, but that status was earned decades ago when owning a truck in the wide-open spaces of the Lone Star State made perfect sense. It’s 2020…the pickup...
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Night Two At The Nugget’s Parking Lot
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery, LAND SPEED RACES, Land Speed Races
Being on the salt all day is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re on the freaking salt, man! How can life suck when you’re surrounded by fast machines, gearheads, and one of the...
Angry Crackerbox: Chris Todd’s 8-second Ford Fiesta
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Dear sweet ever-loving God, what a monster. Seeing this car reminds me of a shirt I had when I was barely a tot. I remember it well: “Dynamite comes in small packages”. For years...
Free Snake: Gifting A 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra That Was Saved From The Junkyard
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartFORD, Videos
Antiquing? Um…normally that’s a very, very hard pass from me, thank you much. I know that there can be some cool things to be found on some shelf in some store on any given day. Among the...
BangShift Project Files: MAX II 6×6 Amphibious ATV….EV?!
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartOTHER, Project Cars
You saw these things advertised in the backs of magazines like Popular Science: the Max ATV, a six-wheeled amphibious device that looked like a bathtub with ambition. Argo, Recreative...
Origin Story: How The Tokyo Drift Monte Carlo Came To Exist
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
It was easy to mock the cars of the Fast and Furious movies early on, wasn’t it? Little buzzbombs painted bright colors, with random-ass graphics, bad bodykits didn’t make a great...
Odd Moment of Zen: This Video of Ships Intentionally Running Ashore Is Kind of Awesome
Aug 11, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
This is one of those moments when I really have to recognize how weird that I am. Watching this video was both entertaining and oddly calming to me and I have no idea why. What you are about to see...
Drag Video: Watch This 1961 Dodge Powered By A Slant Six Take On A Mighty Hellcat At Mo-Kan Dragway
Aug 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
We have to thank Matt Cramer over at DIY Auto Tune for sending us the link to this video of an interesting and fast pair of Chryslers at Mo-Kan Dragway in Kansas. On the left side of the screen you...
Watch These Puerto Rican Drag Racing Big Rigs Fly Into The 12s – We Need More Of This Here!
Aug 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I know you’re yelling at your screen right now that we DO have a vibrant scene of guys with heavy iron who enjoy running their trucks down drag strips but it is different here. The first video...
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Take A Walk Through The Pits!
Aug 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, Gallery, Land Speed Races, LAND SPEED RACES
Blue sky and the white salt crust combine to make one of the most alien views you’ve ever seen. If you have never been to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, it had better be engraved on your...
Project Bottle Rocket Coronet: Slogging Through The Bog For Better Results
Aug 10, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I love keyboard warriors who swear up and down that they are the end-all, be all when it comes to wrenching, that the recipes are simple, and that Joe Blow can just drop about five to ten grand and...
Nasty Dyno Video: Watch This 1,000hp Turbocharged Buggy Make A Dyno Rip – Awesome!
Aug 10, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
Putting a 1,000hp turbocharged off-road buggy on the dyno rollers is bound to be fun but this video proves just how wild it is. Equipped with a super awesome Aussie built Albins trans axle and a...
Dragline Videos! This Big Old Machines Still Have Their Place – Especially In The BangShift Hall Of Fame!
Aug 10, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
(By Greg Rourke) – There are lots of ways to move a bunch of dirt. You can use a wheelbarrow and a shovel, but where’s the fun in that. Backhoes, bulldozers, skid loaders, and excavators...
Dajiban: 2001 Dodge Ram Van 1500, With 410 Stroker Motor Available
Aug 10, 2020Bryan McTaggarteBay Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
If you are unfamiliar with the term “dajiban“, let us bring you up to speed: the Dodge Ram Van, specifically the 1994-2003 variety that has the looks of the 1994 Dodge Ram, might not...
