Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
CLICK HERE To Watch The California Hot Rod Reunion Sunday At 9AM
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE 2014 NHRA CALIFORNIA HOT ROD REUNION LIVE STREAMING BROADCAST — STARTING 9:00AM PST SUNDAY That’s right folks! As you’ve come to expect,...
Video: Take A Behind The Scenes Look At Racepak With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds!
We’re lucky that a bunch of cool aftermarket companies let us hang out any time we want, but the ones that are right here in SoCal make that even cooler and easier. Racepak is one of our...
Craigslist Find: A 1968 Lola T-160 Can Am Racer That We Want To Own
When my buddy Dannie Pinard sent me this Craigslist item, he also sent it with some note about being a TV star now and that I should be able to buy this thing. I WISH!!! This 1968 Lola T-160 is...
Australian V8 Supercars Video: Crashing At Bathurst Is Nothing New, But In Practice?!
Our buddy Sean, a huge Australian V8 Supercars fan, sent us the link to this cool video from Bathurst where Lowndes and Luff came together during practice of all things. As if Bathurst wasn’t a...
Drag Week Uncensored FINALE: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country! – The Aftermath
A 6.16! I still can’t get over that, even though our whole goal with building the truck is to run in the 5’s. And on that last pass, I’m not sure it would have gotten there. It was...
Ridetech Loves Corvettes, And Here Is Proof. Watch The New Ridetech Vette Commercial And See
When Bret Voelkel and the crew at Ridetech told me that they were developing new suspension systems for early Corvettes, and shocks for a variety of late model Corvettes as well, I thought...
Introducing Project Scamp: Kaleb Kelley’s 1973 Plymouth Scamp
(Text and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) I was already excited to become a contributor to BangShift, but when Chad told me that my car could be added to the BangShift project cars I was ecstatic. In April...
Drag Week Uncensored Part 8: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!
Holy Crap!!!! Isn’t this week ever going to end?! Why is it that while you can’t seem to remember your own name after a drag week like this, or what you ate for your last meal, somehow every...
Willys, Gassers, Muscle Cars, And More From The NHRA Motorsports Museum Prolong Twilight Cruise
We hit the NHRA Wally Parks Motorsports Museum Prolong Twilight Cruise last night and got to see a bunch of cool hot rods and muscle cars, plus more Willys than we had seen in forever! Darr Hawthorne...
Tune In Tonight On GAC To Watch Flippin’ RVs. Tonight’s Trailers Rule!
If you haven’t seen GAC’s new Flippin’ RVs series, you are missing out! It’s awesome, and will make every hot rodder want a vintage trailer to go with his or her cool cars....
Drag Week Uncensored Part 7: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!
When we woke up Friday morning, the last “official” day of Drag Week, the weather was not looking good and we had plenty of work to do. Since we had some issues the night before, and were...
Drag Week Uncensored Part 6: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!
In part 5, I ended telling you about the horrible drive to Great Bend, and our complete lack of sleep and therefore multiple near death experiences. Waking up in Great Bend sucked. We had gotten in...
This 1985 Dodge Shelby Charger Turbo Might Be Wrong Wheel Drive, But Still A Bad Ass.
It’s weird that we have now featured two of these front drive Chargers in the past week but, while the first one was changed from front wheel drive to rear wheel drive, 17 year old Nathan...
Drag Week Uncensored Part 5: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!
Normally we’d be starting a new day of Drag Week from the hotel near the racetrack. Such was NOT the case when we started day three of Drag Week 2014. While it had been the norm so far for us...