Event Preview: 2020 Pro-Touring Truck Shootout at NCM Motorsports Park
Aug 08, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Event Coverage, Apex Gallery, Autocross / Pro Touring, BangShift APEX, BangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, Gallery, OTHER
When you think of Pro Touring, chances are that you think of first-gen Camaros like Mike DuSold’s, second-gen Camaros like Brian Finch’s, a fleet of late-model Corvettes, and one-off...
Classic YouTube: Ronnie Sox’s 1995 Crash At The IHRA Summernationals At U.S. 41 Dragway
Aug 07, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, HISTORIC, Videos
Ronnie Sox needs no introduction here. The Sox and Martin cars instantly bring in images of red, white and blue Plymouths fitted with a four-speed manual and the man from North Carolina who could run...
No Means No: The Day That Tom Sykes’s Kawasaki Called It Quits
Aug 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Ever have the kind of day that you regret waking up for? That was July 21st, 2013 for World Superbike rider Tom Sykes. The event was the eighth round of the World Superbike Championship, and was held...
Upper Class Trash: Vice Grip Garage Wakes Up A 1975 Ford Gran Torino Elite
Aug 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartFORD, Videos
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when the special editions start coming out, you know that a manufacturer is desperate to get every last dime they can out of a platform before...
Still Tippin’: The Story Of The Slandering Of The Suzuki Samurai
Aug 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
It’s one of the strangest trends I’ve seen since I moved out to the midwest: just how many people not only appreciate small SUVs like Geo Trackers, Suzuki Vitaras and the like, but how...
Classic YouTube: Say “Nice To Meet You Too” To The Mustang II
Aug 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
“I have a ’65 Mustang and I don’t like what’s happening. They’re blowing them up. Why can’t you just leave a sports car small? I mean, you keep blowing them up and starting with another...
Wreckage Bonanza Video: Four Minutes Of Open Track Day Destruction From Around The World
Aug 06, 2020Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
Street cars are not race cars and most enthusiasts are not race car drivers so when we take those two elements and combine them at open track day events, crazy stuff is bound to happen. This video is...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The Hornsby Steam Crawler Tractor
Aug 06, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News
I’ve been on a bit of a steam punk kick with the freaky stuff as of late, but you seem to be into it, so here’s another bizarre creation from the dawn of the 20th century that’s...
Childhood Dream Race: A Bunch Of YouTubers Brought Their Toys Out To Play!
Aug 06, 2020Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
I first drove a golf cart that wasn’t on a little asphalt track when I was seven. My younger brother had a friend that had a typical kart…you know, balloon tires and a Briggs and Stratton...
Morning Symphony: Wheel-Standing Mega Trucks On The Sled
Aug 06, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Videos
I don’t know if it’s just me, but the one takeaway I remember from watching tractor and sled pulls on television back in the late 1980s was that everything that hitched up to the weight...
Go Home And Drink: The 2020 SEMA Show Will Not Take Place
Aug 06, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
It’s a week-long grind, it’s long days and nights, it’s more photographs than we normally take the rest of the year. It’s also the place where we do business, find trends, see...
Video: The Sverige S1 Is A 2,000hp Mahogany Boat Built To Fulfill The Dreams Of Swedish Engineers From 80 Years Ago
Aug 06, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
We’ve run stories in the past telling you about the incredible racing boats of the 1920s and 1930s that were commissioned and operated by wildly rich guys of that era. Guys like Gar Wood and...
Pop Goes The Frunk-Lid: The C8 Corvette’s Frunk Lid Opens By Itself?
Aug 06, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, CHEVY
The only time I’ve ever driven a C7 Corvette, I discovered one seriously annoying thing about it: every single solid time I sat down into the driver’s seat, my left knee would hit the...
On This Day In History: The Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima, Japan
Aug 06, 2020Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
On August 4, 2020, Beirut, Lebanon was rocked by an explosion equated to 1.1 kilotons of TNT. You can find the videos yourself, but understand the scale of what you will be watching: a crater...
