Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
Pontiac Trans-Am Fans Rejoice! Lingenfelter Brings You The Production LTA
Ken Lingenfelter and Mike Copeland, along with everyone at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, have been designing, wrenching, painting, and stitching like mad men and women in preparation for the...
SEMA 2012 Product Spotlight: Optima’s Newest Charger… The Digital 400
Early in 2012 OPTIMA Batteries unveiled the Digital 1200 Battery charger, which kicks ass, but is a little big for the powersports, motorcycle, and lawn and garden guys. Well worry no more ladies and...
New Holley Throttle Body EFI Sneak Peak From SEMA 2012… Blown, Boosted, Or Sprayed, This 950 CFM Piece Can Handle It
While most of the media were hanging out at the bar in the Hilton or still traveling to Las Vegas for the start of the 2012 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Brian and I were sneaking into the joint so we...
1400 Plus CFM Holley Dominator Sneak Peek: SEMA 2012’s Biggest Carb? We Shall See
Brian and I snuck into the SEMA Show a day early even though we weren’t supposed to today, and found one of the cool parts we had been hearing rumors about and had spied at last weekend’s...
EFI Conversions and Engine Swaps Just Got Easier: The Easiest Fuel System You’ll Ever Install. REALLY! LOOK AT IT!
Aeromotive Fuel Systems has just come out with what we believe is the most revolutionary fuel system ever. The Phantom Fuel System can be installed AT HOME, BY ANY CAR JUNKIE, in ANY fuel tank...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is This The Coolest Automotive Desk Ever?
We dig automotive furniture, artwork, etc., but when Scott from Route2Media sent us this picture of an almost completely intact Mini Cooper built into a desk we were blown away. Of course we had to...
Event Coverage: More Than 100 Photos Of SCTA Racing At El Mirage, Where Dirt Is King…
Zane McNary shot a bunch of great photos from the dirt at El Mirage this past Sunday, after shooting drag racing photos for us on Friday and Saturday from the California Hot Rod Reuninon. Since he...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Best Roadtrip Food?
We’re getting ready to start our road trip up to the California Hot Rod Reunion today, and it made us think. What is the best roadtrip food? It could be your favorite thing to munch on while...
Join In The Fun! It’s Tipsy Trickster Time For The California Hot Rod Reunion
In addition to BangShift’s FREE LIVE Streaming Video, here are a couple other ways of experiencing the California Hot Rod Reunion XXI this weekend, even if you can’t make it to the...
More Free LIVE Streaming Video: The Million Dollar Race At Montgomery Motorsports Park
“The Million” as it’s come to be known is in it’s 17th year, and brings bracket racers from all over the country who want their shot at the largest single day drag race payout...
Big News!!! Mike Galimi, One Of The Coolest Dudes In The Racing Media, Is Now Race Pages Editor
I met Mike Galimi in a dive bar near Milan Dragway a few years ago now and, despite his Yankee accent, thought he was pretty cool dude from the get go. He knew how to drink, played pool okay, and...
Easy Bolt-In For Chevy II: American Powertrain’s New Trans Swap Crossmember Makes It Simple
The dudes at American Powertrain just keep coming up with more and more cool products. And since we’re in the middle of building an engine for a ’66 Chevy II, we thought this one was...
Chadmouth: More Travel Woes… Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Fly…
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote a Chadmouth titled “Travel Rookies Suck”, that got a lot of interest and resulted in lots of comments, emails, and phone calls. If you didn’t catch...
Ebay Find: All Fiberglass ’69 Camaro On A G-Body Chassis… Weird? Cool? Hmmmmm
Scott Payton, one of the geeks that keeps BangShift.com up and running on the web, sent us this one yesterday and we have to say it shocked us. We had never heard of Corbin Rods all fiberglass...