1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery, Historic Photos, OTHER, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery
Mooneyes New Year’s Party Photos: The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags Is Now The Mooneyes New Year’s Party And Drags!
Jan 22, 2022Chad Reynolds1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, BangShift Galleries, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery, Historic Photos, OTHER, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery
(Photos by Wes Allison) Up through 2018, every Southern California hot rodder could be found at Irwindale Speedway in early December for the Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags. It was one of the staple...
Holley Classic Trucks Lamps And Lighting For GM Squarebody And GMT400 OBS Trucks
Jan 22, 2022Chad ReynoldsNew Products, XL New Truck Products
Restoring the lighting on your classic GM truck is for more than just appearance’s sake…it’s a safety issue, too. Holley Classic Trucks has you covered with new lamp housings and...
Metal Shaping Tech: How To Build Your Own Shrinking Stump For Making Flat Metal Not!
Jan 22, 2022Chad ReynoldsHack of the Week, Metal Fabrication, Tech Stories
Shaping metal can be ultra simple or very complex, depending on what you are trying to do. Having the right tools, and knowing how to use them, is key. Thankfully Karl at Make It Kustom is great at...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” by Meat Loaf (1977)
Jan 22, 2022Bryan McTaggartBS Daily Tune Up
One of Michael Aday’s most notable traits was not his singing range, nor his acting range. No, it would be his social anxiety. He had no idea what to do with himself in a social setting, felt...
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Bars Bars Everywhere, The Cage Is Done!
Jan 22, 2022Chad ReynoldsApex Car Feature, Apex Spotlight, Apex Tech Stories, Apex Video, BangShift APEX, Metal Fabrication, Tech Stories
There are a lot more tubes in place in the Mini Cooper Race Car that Matt has been throwing together, and in this video, he throws the final few in and welds it all together. This is one trick little...
Like A Boss: Watch Jimmy McRae, Father Of The Late Colin McRae Wheel A Vauxhall Chevette Rally Car Like A Boss
Jan 22, 2022Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
It seems ridiculous to suggest that genetics can make you a good rally racing driver but the McRae family of Scotland seems to indicate that it’s a factual statement. Jimmy was a destroyer in...
Iron Trap’s 1939 Mercury Gets A Hopped Up Flathead To Make It Whole Again
Jan 22, 2022Chad ReynoldsENGINE, ENGINES, FORD, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
This ’39 Mercury has fought Matt and the gang every step of the way, but it is finally getting a new to it engine. After saving it from an old garage, where it has been all but forgotten for...
Tech Tip: How Much Fluid Should Your Automatic Transmission Really Have In It?
Jan 22, 2022Chad Reynolds1320 Drivetrain Tech, 1320 Tech Story, 1320 Videos
How much is too much? Or how much is too little? Is one worse than the other? The answers might surprise you and have to do with more than just the marks on your transmission dipstick. Of course,...
Can They Bring Back The Shine? Paint Restoration On This Neglected Old Chevy LUV
Jan 22, 2022Chad ReynoldsOTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos, XL Tech Stories, XL Videos
There is something super satisfying about polishing something dull into something shiny. Whether it is wheels, paint, chrome, or aluminum, if you take product and a rag or buffer and make something...
Cheap Z28 Project: Can One Man’s Cheap Score Become Something Cool And Fun? The Cheapest Camaro On Facebook Marketplace.
Jan 21, 2022Chad ReynoldsCHEVY, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
In the world of automotive fun, there is nothing better than scoring a car for cheap when you know that it has life left in it. Sometimes that’s a shell you can build into a race car, sometimes...
Sheet Metal Fab How To: Simple Tools And Techniques Can Help You Recreate Some Pretty Complicated Body Panels
Jan 21, 2022Chad Reynolds1320 Cars With Doors Feature, 1320 Project Cars, 1320 Videos, Metal Fabrication, OTHER, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Replacing a piece of a rocker, lower fender, cab corner, or floor pan is pretty standard when you are talking about building old cars, but what about the other stuff that’s more complicated?...
1936 Ford Custom Project: Bello’s Kustoms Buttons Up The Suspension On This T-5 Swapped Old School Hot Rod
Jan 21, 2022Chad ReynoldsCAR FEATURES, DRIVETRAIN, FORD, Metal Fabrication, Project Cars, SUSPENSION, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
In this installment on the 1936 Ford project, Bello and the gang get their suspension on, but in a different way than you might expect. To recap, this is a traditional hot rod that was mostly stock...
Museum Photos: Rodz And Bodz Automotive Museum Tour At Colorado Mills
Jan 21, 2022Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, Gallery, Museums
(Words and Photos by Charles Wickam) When one thinks “shopping mall,” they think back to school, battling the Christmas crowd, or getting a tasty pretzel and lemonade. For me, a recent...
Throwin’ Shade: The Dodge Social Media Team Seems To Have Swiped At Ford…But Why? What’s It Mean?
Jan 20, 2022Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, Apex Racing News, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, MISC, Videos
(By Tom Lohnes) – Dodge is known for being bold. With their social media department literally telling Ford to “pop the hood” on their new Raptor they are no strangers to throwing shade at...
