The 2020 Dakar Rally Is On And Man Is It A Beast! Saudi Arabia, And It’s Crazy Variety Of Terrain And Sand, Is Home To This Historic Spectacle
Jan 12, 2020Chad ReynoldsBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, XL Spotlight, XL Videos
I first started really watching the Dakar Rally back in the late 1990s and couldn’t believe just how cool this race was to watch on TV. For years I looked forward to it and thought it would be...
The Mongrel Project Is Getting Some Paint! Watch How To Paint The Engine Compartment, How Not To Paint A Cage, And Then How To Pain The Cage!
Jan 11, 2020Chad ReynoldsApex Project Cars, Apex Spotlight, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, TECH, Videos
Sometimes stuff just doesn’t go right on a project car build. It’s just one of those things when you are talking about building something from scratch and with mostly one off and custom...
The Challenger Revival, Part 8: The Crispy Frame Rail And More Sheetmetal Rot Removal
Jan 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
Seeing that the floorboards had rotted out of the Dodge Challenger that Dylan McCool has been grinding on for a while now isn’t a shock. Not that Chrysler products aren’t known for...
Unhinged: Supporting Selfless Service And Saving A Dodge Truck
Jan 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartUnhinged
If you’ve seen any of the Summernats 33 coverage, you probably have a pretty solid idea on just how hellish Australia is right now. If not, here’s a basic layout: on the eastern side of...
4 Teams, 4 Junkyard Trucks, $6,000, And 1 Week To Buy A Truck And Build It Into The Ultimate Off-Road Machine In Pursuit Of The $10,000 Prize.
Jan 11, 2020Chad ReynoldsBangShift XL, XL Videos
The Horsepower Wars Junkyard Challenge presented by K&N is the ultimate test of 4 man teams in an effort to build the ultimate low buck off-road machine. Each team has been given $2,500 to buy a...
Want To Become A Carburetor Guru? Learn From The Guys That Build Them! Holley Announces New Holley Carburetor 101 Classes
Jan 11, 2020Chad Reynolds1320 Drag News, 1320 Spotlight, Apex Spotlight, Bangshift Spotlight, XL Spotlight
Everyone seems to have EFI the brain in recent years, and we understand and love them for it, but carburetors are still way more plentiful in the hot rod and racing world and we still get asked about...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Red Barchetta” by Rush (Live In Montreal, 1980)
Jan 11, 2020Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
Automobiles and music, they go oddly hand-in-hand with each other. Pick a car, understand the feeling that it gives you when you drive it, and the music will eventually line up to what you listen to,...
Roadtrippin: Exploring Our Favorite Closed Up Junkyard And Drooling Over A 1965 409 Impala SS
Jan 11, 2020Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, Gallery
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) Whenever our buddy Liggett has a free moment he’s either working on his hot rods or exploring something cool and historical and car related. He has more...
Not Too Forward: 1958 Chrysler New Yorker – Almost Sedate For The Fifties
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartMonday Shopper
1958, in the automotive world, was the year where fins and chrome seemed to jump the shark. Every car suddenly sprouted four headlights. Buick sprouted a nightmare for those who hated polishing...
Lawn Mower Mudding – You Needed A New Mower Anyways, Right?
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, Videos
I was not expecting to hear my father-in-law say that he was going to bring out the lawn mower the other day. The area around BangShift Mid-West is currently a toss up between muddy and just about...
Classic YouTube: The 1955 Southern 500 at Darlington, Courtesy of Purolator!
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Prior to the infamous 1979 Daytona 500, there were very few ways to see the entirety of a stock car race. Obviously, you could go in person to a track and watch as drivers battled it out for...
Rough Start: 1975 Mercury Bobcat – Enough Rolling Bomb Jokes!
Jan 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
Over thirty years of Pinto jokes later, can we look past all of that? Please? They’ve aged out of normal use. You find me someone using a Pinto as a daily driver that isn’t on it’s...
American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This H-Pattern Shifted Mustang Run 7s!
Jan 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Lots of time when we show you a hardcore competition car as part of the American Powertrain Parting Shift it is not being H-pattern shifted. Maybe it has a sequential shifter or a Vertigate type deal...
