High Steel: This 1970s Documentary About Mohawks Building Manhattan Sky Scrapers Is Incredible
Mar 16, 2024Brian LohnesBangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Videos
The year was 1916 and the event was the construction of the Hell Gate Bridge. It was this occasion that brought a significant number of Native Americans from the Mohawk Tribe to New York and gave...
Old School Video: This 1960 Plymouth Sales Film For The Valiant May As Well Come From Mars
Mar 16, 2024Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos
Selling cars is not an easy job. It’s something that we could never do. Not because we’d hate to see them leave the lot, but because it’s one of those professions where you are only...
Jeepin’ Video: This Look Into The Jeep Culture In The 1950s and 1960s Is Absolutely Awesome
Mar 16, 2024Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
It is pretty safe to say that the Jeep brand has some of the most devoted followers in the automotive world. As it turns out, this is nothing new. The culture around the Jeep which was born in WWII...
Happy 3/16! Here’s Some Love For The Little Pontiac 316ci V8
Mar 16, 2024Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
This is another of those dates where most people think that there’s no gearhead connection but those people would be wrong! In 1956 and for one year only Pontiac offered a 316ci V8 engine. A...
Heavy, Haughty, and Downright Hilarious: Driving The 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLS63 AMG – The Cure For The Common EV
Mar 15, 2024Brian LohnesBangShift APEX, BangShift News, BangShift Road Test
With all the noise, screaming, yelling, and histrionics that fill the airwaves these days about EVs and their impending blob-like growth to swallow the automotive marketplace, it’s good to get...
Listen To The Entire Big Sounds Of The Drags 2001 Album Here, Free! – Crank It Up!
Mar 15, 2024Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, BangShift 1320
Fun fact to know and share. The first piece of drag racing journalism I ever had published outside of the New England Dragway newspaper was a piece I wrote about pro mods for Nitronic Research. While...
Happy 3/15! Today We Look At The Oft Forgotten 315ci Chrysler Poly V8 Engine
Mar 15, 2024Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, ENGINES, Videos
We’re pretty sure you were all waiting for 3/18 to come around and that we’d be talking Mopar small blocks at that point. Well, wake up! Rather than wait until the date you all knew was...
Historic Promo Video: Chevrolet’s Promo Movie Selling Ram-Jet Fuel Injection for 1957
Mar 15, 2024Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX
What a world it must have been for a gearhead in the late 1950s. So much was happening with aviation technology, and car companies were innovating, inventing, and experimenting with stuff that would...
Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown Photos Is Right Here! LST Was Off The Chain, With Trucks Of Every Flavor On Display In Texas.
Mar 14, 2024Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, BangShift XL, Car Shows, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage, Gallery, Truck / Tractor Events, XL Event Coverage, XL Gallery, XL Spotlight
This is it, our last round of photos from LST! We’ve had a great time sharing all our photos with you from this awesome event. It is one of our favorites all year long and does so much to...
March Meet 2024 Photos: Nitro Funny Cars, Altereds, And More! We’ve Got Nostalgia Drag Racing Photos Right Here.
Mar 14, 2024Chad Reynolds1320 Event Coverage, 1320 Gallery, 1320 Spotlight, BangShift 1320, BangShift Galleries, DRAG RACES, Drag Races, Event Coverage, Gallery
We’ve got more nitro photos from the March Meet right here, plus a link to more nitro and our gallery of door cars and other sportsman classes below. We’ll have even more nitro over the...
FORGOTTEN Buick Wildcat! Will It RUN and ROADTRIP For Dylan McCool After 21 Years?
Mar 14, 2024Chad ReynoldsDRIVETRAIN, ENGINE, ENGINES, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
Dylan is back at it again, this time with a Buick Wildcat that hasn’t been driven in 21 years. Not only does he want to make it run and drive again, but also road trip the thing home...
Shop Organization: Adam Savage Builds His Dream Hardware Storage System Like Only He Does!
Mar 14, 2024Chad Reynolds1320 Tech Story, Apex Tech Stories, Hack of the Week, OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Tools, Videos, XL Tech Stories
Every Mythbusters fan on the planet knows Adam Savage and knows that he’s a pretty sharp, and incredibly creative, guy who thinks outside the box sometimes. If you aren’t familiar with...
This Video Featuring The Rebuild Of An Ancient Cadillac 314ci V8 Is The Right Way To Celebrate 3/14
Mar 14, 2024Brian LohnesBangShift XL, XL Videos
One of the great engines that no one aside from early Cadillac experts really remembers much about is the 314ci V8 the company offered in the ‘teens and twenties. It was the engine that set the...
