Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Transmission Tech Video: Reassembling A Chrysler A-833 Four Speed – Grabbing Gears The Old School Way
The four-speed manual transmission transformed the mighty cars go the early 1960s from slip sliding automatic equipped beasts to the straight line missiles that we all still admire and love. They...
Turbonique Video: Watch This Amazing Footage Of Jack McClure On His Turbonique Rocket Go Kart
Oct 06, 2020Brian Lohnes3
We have talked a lot about Captain Jack McClure here on BangShift over the years and that’s because the guy deserves it. He is nearly 90 years old and has the attitude of a 25 year old and the...
The Fuel Finals: Watch Tommy Johnson Jr and Doug Kalitta Score Victories At The NHRA Midwest Nationals
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on The Fuel Finals: Watch Tommy Johnson Jr and Doug Kalitta Score Victories At The NHRA Midwest Nationals
Yesterday we told you about the insanity that was Sunday at World Wide Technology Raceway and the Mopar Expresslane NHRA Midwest Nationals. Today we’re going to show you the final round runs of...
Put Up Or Shut Up: Watch The Full Episode Featuring Top Fuel Dirt Motorcycle Racing!
Oct 06, 2020Brian Lohnes1
When we were scheming ideas up about what we should do for the second season of Put Up or Shut Up, I pitched the idea of a top fuel dirt motorcycle drag racing episode. After people figured out I was...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: The Weather Smiled Upon Us All
Oct 06, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Since I’m based about fifteen miles from Beech Bend, I’ll lay claim to being the most knowledgable over what the weather is like in western Kentucky during certain parts of the year. From...
Oh, Look…A Bird: Brian Ambrosini’s Vertical Shot At The Byron Wheelstanding Competition
Oct 06, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
This might be the most infamous AMC Gremlin in history. Bright orange, Auto Drag wheels, and battle scarred beyond reproach. More people have seen the underside of this car than they have ever seen...
Turning Over A New Leaf: Kevin McMullin’s Radical Crash At Holley’s Intergalactic Ford Fest
Oct 06, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
The first time I shot photos for BangShift in an actual photographer role, Lohnes gave me a piece of advice that frankly, I should have heeded this weekend: “Wait until it’s actually over...
Opala VS Maverick – Watch These Brazilian Flyers Rip Down The Track From Every Angle, Even Inside!
Oct 06, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Opala VS Maverick – Watch These Brazilian Flyers Rip Down The Track From Every Angle, Even Inside!
It has been a while since we have dropped in on our drag racing pals down south of the Equator. This time we’re checking in with our pals from Brazil and watching a pair of screaming orange hot...
Rough Day At The Office: Wreckage, Carnage, and Downright Insanity At The NHRA Midwest Nationals
Oct 05, 2020Brian Lohnes10
It was one of the most carnage filled days of drag racing that I’ve ever personally witnessed. From Leah Pruett’s top fuel dragster breaking in half at 270+ mph to Alexis DeJoria...
Watch A Pair Of Mopar Super Stock Springs Work From Under The Car
Oct 05, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch A Pair Of Mopar Super Stock Springs Work From Under The Car
While the drag cars of the 1960s and 1970s were nowhere near as complex as the machines of today, there was still a lot of engineering involved in getting them to work the best they could down the...
Historic Video: Watch The Semi-Finals and Final Round Of Top Fuel At Indy 1967 – Iconic Garlits
Oct 05, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Video: Watch The Semi-Finals and Final Round Of Top Fuel At Indy 1967 – Iconic Garlits
Top fuel at the 1967 NHRA US Nationals represented a lot of things to people that loved the sport back then. Perhaps one of the biggest overtones of the weekend was the end of an era in the class....
Historic Pro Stock Video: Southern Fried Pro Stockers From 1974
Oct 05, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Pro Stock Video: Southern Fried Pro Stockers From 1974
Pro Stocks circa the mid 1970s were really cool. Tube chassis were not the order of the day yet but there was all kinds of stuff going on beneath the surface of these cars to lighten them, stiffen...
Holley Intergalactic Ford Fest 2020: Blending The Old And The New Together
Oct 05, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
You couldn’t have two more polar opposites if you tried. Out in the show car fields sat one of my dream cars and a BangShift feature car, Jason McDaniel’s 1969 Shelby GT500. Curving...
It’s The FinalFinal Day Of FREE LIVE Streaming From The Spring Fling Million!$30k Saturday Spills Over To Sunday!
Oct 04, 2020Chad Reynolds1
That’s right, the Spring Fling Million, normally held in Las Vegas, and streamed right here on BANGshift.com, that was moved to Bristol, is reaching its final day. It’s $30,000 Saturday...










