Best of 2019: Check Out This LS4-Swapped Pontiac Montana!
Jan 02, 2020Bryan McTaggartBUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, TECH, Videos
The GM U-vans came in three generations: Dustbuster, Dustbuster II, and “Crossover Sport Vans”. Yeah…that was GM’s own term for the revised third generation that were intended...
Best of 2019: Scrapple! This Week: The Strangest Traffic Stop, Ever.
Jan 02, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News
Define “Busy Weekend”: A double-header of live racing for you to enjoy! Chad’s in Sacramento at the Western States Championship, McTaggart is in Texas for the Mid-West Pro Mod party...
Best of 2019: This 1976 Ford Hauler Is Everything In One: Ramp Truck And Hotel Room!
Jan 02, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, FORD, Monday Shopper, TRUCKS, XL Online Find
Go to a race pretty much anywhere, any time and you’ll see them. Diesel trucks hauling flatbed trailers. Toterhomes with stacker trailers. It’s kind of nuts what many deem necessary for a...
Best of 2019: An 8-Minute Gear Bangin’ Symphony From Inside a 1968 Camaro
Jan 02, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
There are stick shift videos, and then there are STICK SHIFT videos. This is one of the latter. Featuring the 1968 Camaro of Billy Miller Racing, this video shows multiple runs from multiple angles...
Best of 2019: Removing A Pilot Bearing With Bread
Jan 02, 2020Bryan McTaggartTECH, Videos
Face some facts: you don’t have all of the answers, you don’t know all of the tricks, and you will spend your lifetime learning them so that you can (hopefully) pass on some lessons to a...
Best of 2019: The Man Who’d Rather Drive A Truck Than A Car – This 1975 Dodge Pickup Truck Commercial Is Fun
Jan 02, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
A tough looking truck sloshing through puddles, hauling hay, and driving over dirt roads in a vast landscape. That’s pretty much 67% of every truck commercial ever made from the present day all...
Best of 2019: Te Definition Of Tuff Truck: Watch This Jeep Cherokee Get Pounded!
Jan 01, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift XL, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
We’re not sure if the driver ever walked in a fully upright position after completing this Tuff Truck run at the 2018 Lebanon Fair in Pennsylvania. We have seen plenty of gutsy tuff truck runs...
Best of 2019: What Was McTaggart Thinking As This 1955 Chevy Attacked?
Jan 01, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Event Coverage, BangShift 1320, BangShift Question Of The Day??
Editor’s Note: This wasn’t the closest call of 2019. This was the closest call I’ve had, period. -McT I’d been on the property at Beech Bend for maybe…maybe twenty...
Best of 2019: 1976 Camaro, Meet VW Beetle. We Don’t Know Where To Go From Here.
Jan 01, 2020Bryan McTaggartCHEVY, eBay Find, OTHER
My first automotive love was the 1975-77 Chevrolet Camaro. I loved having the bigger back window on the Camaro that I first fell in love with when my uncle brought home a ’76 Type LT....
Best of 2019: Question Of The Day: Ok, Haters, What Car SHOULD Get LS-Swapped?
Jan 01, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift Question Of The Day??, BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC
We get it, OK? We read the comments, we’ve seen the bashing. We’re half-ready to see if we can find a doc to prescribe half of you happy pills while the other half of y’all need a...
Best of 2019: Garrett Reed’s Monte Carlo, From Power Tour Theft To LS Fest X!
Jan 01, 2020Bryan McTaggartCAR FEATURES, Videos
I’ve had the privilege of knowing Garrett Reed for a couple of years now. Good dude, always friendly, always chill, always working hard for his keep. Garrett is the kind of guy that I...
Best of 2019: If You Have Ever Wondered How A Roots Blower Works, This Animation Is Just The Ticket
Jan 01, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Engine Tech, 1320 Tech Story, BangShift 1320, BangShift XL, ENGINE, Tech Stories, XL Videos
They were a novel pump. The Roots brothers invented the design in Civil War America and Roots pumps were used for moving air into mines, moving water where it needed to go, and even used to feed...
Best of 2019: This Pontiac GTO Makes 1500hp To The Tire With A Turbocharged Factory Block and Factory Headed Pontiac Engine
Jan 01, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, ENGINES, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Hey, if we’re going to show you a 1,000hp wheel VW we need to back it up with something making even more power, right? How about a stunning 1,500hp Pontiac that uses twin turbos on an engine...
Best of 2019: Beater Heaven! Listen To This Lincoln LS Drift The Day Away At King Of The Heap!
Jan 01, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Sideways, Apex Video, BangShift APEX
It is easy to dismiss a race of $1,000 beaters as nothing more than crapcans toddling around a racetrack sometimes. Sure, it’s something fun to do during the off-season, but just how exciting...
