Throwback Thurdsay: Finnegan Looks Back On Drag Week ’19 As He Gears Up For RMRW 2.0!
Sep 10, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
The bag is getting packed, the gear is being checked, and the hotels have been booked. By the time you are reading this, I’ll be finishing up my last couple of things before I hit the road for...
Money No Object: Cossie-Cat! This Prototype 1980 Mercury Capri Has The Bad Little Four Inside!
Sep 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartFORD, Monday Shopper
When the 1979 Ford Mustang and Mercury Capri were introduced, Ford was quietly trying to push the Windsor V8 out of the picture. It had been a thing for a few years, starting in 1974 when the Mustang...
Gullet-Cam: Here’s What Goes On Inside The Intake Of A Turbo Supra!
Sep 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
The exciting parts of auto shop class in high school was any time you were hands-on with a car, right? You had the tools out, you had the test light out, and you were doing your best to figure out...
Unhinged: The Story Of N601BN, Braniff International’s “Big Orange” Boeing 747
Sep 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
Come Tuesday, there will no longer be any U.S. based airliner service that utilizes what is arguably the most instantly recognizable airliner ever made, the Boeing 747. Since it’s rollout in...
Turn-Key Speed: This Blown, Virtually New Slingshot Dragster Comes Ready To Run And With Spares
Sep 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, eBay Find
This is the craziest deal we may have ever seen on eBay and we have seen a few. We found a virtually new slingshot dragster with 21 runs on it, packing a billet TFX block, 6-71, blown hemi with all...
Porsche’s Punchy Panamera Packs Prodigious Power, Pretty Prolific Price Tag
Sep 09, 2020Brian LohnesApex Racing News, BangShift APEX, BangShift News
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Porsche Panamera is out, and it packs a punch along with a steep price tag. Starting at just over $100,000, the new Panamera is meant to compete with other high-model...
New Product: RideTech Introduces New Subframe Connectors For First-Generation Camaro/Firebird – Innovation In Action!
Sep 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 New Drag Race Products, 1320 Sponsor News, Apex New Products, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, New Products, Sponsor News
Great companies innovate, right? That’s been the hallmark of RideTech since the earliest days of its existence and the company continues to do it today. The proof is in the fact that these guys...
Langdon, Beckman, Enders, and Pollacheck Win 2020 NHRA US Nationals – Watch Them Do It Here
Sep 09, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Event Coverage, 1320 NHRA News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Boy, it was some kind of race day on Sunday at the US Nationals. Everyone was wondering if it would feel like the US Nationals, if it would have that intensity and that craziness. Well, it did. You...
Calculated Risk Or The Luckiest Trucker In America? Watch This Rig Plow Through Water Up To Its Windshield!
Sep 09, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
I’ll admit it. Back when I made my living as a CDL driver, I was kind of a wuss. There were guys who had no trouble bombing down icy hills or through unplowed roads with their trucks. Guys that...
Morning Symphony: Who Would Be The First To Hop On This V-Twin Racing Lawnmower?
Sep 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartENGINES, Videos
I can’t lie…the lawn mower I use to hack down the grass around BangShift Mid-West is not fast. Not in the least. But that doesn’t stop me from whipping around from one edge of the...
Where It Ended: The Final Days Of The Chrysler Turbine Program
Sep 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, HISTORIC
The Chrysler Turbine Car program is best remembered for the unique 1962-1964 two-door sedans that were tested by the public. But there is much more to the story. The start of the turbine car program...
Classic YouTube: Launching A Citroen 2CV Seventy-Five Feet Off Of A Sand Dune
Sep 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Twenty-nine horsepower is the maximum any Citroen 2CV-based vehicle ever had. Twenty-nine. That means that if you stick with power ratings, a 2CV can compare with the likes of an upper-end riding...
Will Race Anything…Even Gardening Equipment! Check Out Roto-Tiller Racing From Arkansas!
Sep 09, 2020Bryan McTaggartRACING & ACTION, Videos
For most people, the only difference between a roto-tiller and a lawnmower is the amount of damage they can inflict on the land. The experience is pretty much the same otherwise: run over the area...
Gonna Feel That In The Morning: Watch As Brett Ghedina’s Honda CBR Drag Bike Launches Into The Sky!
Sep 09, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, CRASH & BURN, Videos
Count Brett Ghedina’s wild ride at the Maximum Thrust Grand Final race at Perth Motorplex in Kwinana, Australia as quite possibly the shortest drag bike run in history. Ghedina was preparing...
