The Race To Nowhere: This Footage From The 1927 Dole Air Race Is Creepy – The Last Flight For Many
Nov 17, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
The 1927 Dole Air race will forever live as one of the most tragic examples of bravado preceding technology ever. The event was funded by James D Dole of pineapple empire fame. After Charles...
Goodbye, Jim: Ride With Jim Pace At Road America In An Can-Am Car – We Remember A Racer Gone Too Soon
Nov 17, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
I never actually met Jim Pace. If you look back at the BangShift archive of stories you will see his name all over the place. We ran dozens and dozens of videos of Jim competing at places like...
Classic YouTube: “Autocrossing” At Alveringem – Small Cars, Muddy Field, Big-Time Fun!
Nov 17, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX
Doing muddy laps in a farmer’s field sounds less like an actual race and more like something I may or may not be guilty of doing in some beater car, but apparently in Europe it is perfectly...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Does The Jeep Wrangler Actually Need A Hemi?
Nov 17, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??
On November 17, 2020, at 12 noon Eastern, Jeep will unveil the Wrangler Rubicon 392 in its production form. A concept has been roaming around for a couple of months now, mostly as a teaser for what...
Back To The Workshop: More Restoration Work Inside Jay Leno’s Garage
Nov 17, 2020Bryan McTaggartVideos
The cool thing about Jay Leno is that this man routinely dredges up cars that we don’t think about in any form whatsoever, A Panhard, a Talbot-Lago, a Brough? Pretty much nobody thinks of...
Watch Race Driver Leh Keen Pound On His Custom Built Safari Porsche In The Woods
Nov 17, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
Leh Keen is an accomplished American race car driver who has been pounding road courses for the better part of a decade now as a professional racer. He’s also a car guy who races and loves...
BangShift Book Corner: Chrysler’s Motown Missile -Mopar’s Secret Engineering Program At The Dawn of Pro Stock By Geoff Stunkard
Nov 16, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 New Drag Race Products, BangShift 1320, BangShift News
I’m not going to wait on the punchline here. If you love the history of pro stock, if you love the history of drag racing, or if you love the history of Mopar/Chrysler performance, stop right...
Incredible Video: Would You Run Headlong Into The Fog At 4AM To Win $50,000 At The Drags? These Guys Did!
Nov 16, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
(By Jason Mazzotta) – As most know, bracket racing is a tough game to conquer even under perfect conditions. From the focus on staging perfectly each time to the demand of hitting the tree and...
MAHLE Motorsport Celebrates a Century of MAHLE Automotive Innovation – Announces $100 PowerPak Piston Rebate
Nov 16, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Sponsor News, Apex Sponsor News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift XL, Sponsor News, XL Sponsor News
This is pretty awesome. MAHLE Motorsport is celebrating their 100th anniversary and they are doing by giving back to their customers. From October 15th through December 15th the company is offering a...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: We Road-Trip Our Four-Eye Fox Over 450 Miles To Alabama And Back!
Nov 16, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Projects, Project Cars, Pumpkin Mustang
For the past few years, I’ve promised Austin Griggs, the man behind Ratty Muscle Cars, that I would bring a car to his race that met the qualifications to run. For the past few years,...
The Wile E. Drop Test: How Volvo Is Mangling Cars In The Name Of Rescue Training
Nov 16, 2020Bryan McTaggartCRASH & BURN, Videos
Translate from metric to standard at your leisure, but 30 meters in the air is roughly 100 feet. 100 feet in the air, dangling from a guide wire, with some schmoe hanging on to the emergency release...
E85 Flex Fuel Made Easy! New Billet High Flow 10AN Dual Channel Sensor Mount
Nov 15, 2020Chad Reynolds1320 New Drag Race Products, 1320 Spotlight, Apex New Products, New Products, XL New Truck Products
Converting your hot rod, muscle car, race car, or truck to run on E85 has never been easier than it is today. But with that said, there are some times when doing this conversion or installation...
