Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
“You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me…”: Watch As This Mud-Dragging Ford Ranger’s Wheel Takes A Hike!
This Ford Ranger looks like a hell of a lot of fun as it approaches the starting line at the mud drags. A V8 under the hood issuing out a warning through the pipes that it means business, a lift that...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Turkey SAABs, Domino’s New Car (Really!), And More!
Have you had your fill of pumpkin-flavored whatever yet? Nope? Good, because there’s still at least another month of everything under the sun flavored like a jack-o’lantern before the...
BangShift Project Files: It Started As A $500 Disco Vette, Now It’s A Rat-Powered Stomper…All Under $5,000!
Our $5,000 Project Challenge has provided us with some bad-ass low-buck pieces that we envy, but this late-C3 Corvette owned by Forum member “fatguyzinc” is one that we’d love to be...
Have An Urgent Need To Go? Then This Hot Rodded Outhouse Should Help You Move It Right Along!
Yes, folks, that’s an outhouse with a 383 stroker Chevy powering it. Don’t bother with asking why, because we have no earthly idea, but when you have to go in a hurry, you would be...
Stanford Has An All-Electric DeLorean Called “M.A.R.T.Y.” That Can Autonomously Drift
On October 21st, 2015, fans of the “Back To The Future” franchise celebrated the day in which Marty McFly and Dr. Emmett Brown arrive in the future. We here at BangShift, however, were...
Going WFO In The Mud Pit At Virginia Motor Speedway! High Revs, Low Gears And Plenty Of Dirt To Throw Around!
Mudding is awesome simply because of the unpredictability involved. Going slow guarantees that you are going to have a bad time. Going fast isn’t a guarantee that you aren’t going to get...
The Former American Motors Headquarters Complex Has Been Sold – One Bid For $600 (Plus Taxes)
(Lead photo: Steve Perez/The Detroit News) It has been almost six years since the Plymouth Road complex, the former headquarters of American Motors, and more recently one of the design centers for...
Handbeaten Aluminum, Copper Highlights, A Monster Big-Block Ford, And The Looks Of An Early Ford – This Is Pure Car Porn Right Here
If I was to ever fall in love with a traditional pre-war hot rod, it would look exactly like this. And that is saying a lot, because for the most part, I don’t like traditional hot rods. Yeah,...
Larry Larson Gives No-Prep Drag Racing A Shot With His S-10 At The Ice Cream Cruise!
We know that Larry Larson’s S-10 is a ball of pure energy with taillights. We’ve seen it earn it’s crown running Drag Week, earn a Wally while running Top Sportsman at the Kansas...
First Look: Ken Block’s First Rear-Wheel-Drive Gymkhana Car, A 1978 Ford Escort RS That Will Spin To 9,000 RPM!
When you say “Ford Escort”, two images come to mind: the front-wheel-drive bucket of unhappiness that North America got for twenty-three years, and the other one…the forbidden fruit...
Would You Rather, The Ballistic Family Hauler Edition: Take Your Pick Between A Hellcat Challenger/Magnum Hybrid Or The Upcoming Grand Cherokee TrackHawk!
The fight between the car you want to own and the car you probably need to own doesn’t need to happen. We want performance: enough power that driving is fun when nobody is in the car with you,...
Ebay Find: This 1987 Chevrolet 1-ton Flatbed Is So Good! Manual, Big-Block And More!
What really caught our eye with this 1987 Chevrolet V30 (yes, that’s correct…C/K became R/V in 1987) wasn’t the fresh paint, nice flatbed conversion, or even the $7,000 price tag...
Watch This Nitroused 5.0 Mustang’s Rear Tire Explode On The Dyno – This Is Why You Don’t Get Too Close!
We have preached it over and over again for years now. We have shown countless videos of what can happen, and we’ve even had it happen to us. Putting a car on the dyno can be a good...
If Two Is Good, Four Should Be Great: Listen To This Mazda RX3 Tear The Air Apart On A Speed Run!
The only three and four-rotor Wankel engines ever created by Mazda were hustled into race cars. Period. Every street car, from the lowly front-wheel-drive Luce to the FD RX-7 made do with two rotors...