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The Name Game: Goodwood Gives Their 11 Favorite Car Names Of All Time – Good List!
Dec 14, 2021Brian Lohnes1
This is pretty good if we don’t say so ourselves. The crew at the Goodwood YouTube Channel decided to give us their 11 favorite car names of all time. Before you think that this will be a list...
Mini Block, Big Problems: Can The Machine Shop Save A 1965 Mini Block With A Badly Gouged Deck?
Dec 14, 2021Brian Lohnes1
When last we left this latest Hagerty Redline Rebuild project, Davin had pulled the 1965 Mini engine apart and things looked a little grave. Why? The deck had some bizarre gouges in it. We’re...
Rally Car Revival Part 2: Giving a Bug Eye Subaru WRX A New Lease On Life With Cobb Tuning
Dec 14, 2021Brian LohnesComments Off on Rally Car Revival Part 2: Giving a Bug Eye Subaru WRX A New Lease On Life With Cobb Tuning
Written By Steve Baur – Photography by the Author Most everyone with a performance car thinks about how they can extract more performance from his/her vehicle. Whether it’s improved...
Unplanned Peek: Someone Spotted The New Generation Of Mini Cooper In China Recently – Here’s Our Take
Dec 13, 2021Brian Lohnes2
(By Tom Lohnes) – The all-new 2023 Mini Cooper was found in China with no camo recently, and it isn’t looking so great. Starting with the obvious here, this is likely not the final design....
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Wheel Arches And Some Sheet Metal Mods In Order To Finish Up The Roll Cage
Dec 13, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Wheel Arches And Some Sheet Metal Mods In Order To Finish Up The Roll Cage
Urchfab’s latest build, the classic mini race car, is looking pretty trick at this point. This dude is doing a great job with the cage and in order to make it as nice as possible, he’s...
Insane Power: Watch This Steve Morris Built Lamborghini V10 Make 3,142hp On The Dyno
Dec 08, 2021Brian Lohnes2
Now this is incredible power. You are about to watch a Steve Morris built Lamborghini engine make more than 3,140hp on the company’s dyno and they are still sorting the thing out! The engine...
HOW TO BUILD CHEAP 5.0L FORD POWER! WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ADD POWER TO YOUR DAILY DRIVEN SB FORD?
Dec 08, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on HOW TO BUILD CHEAP 5.0L FORD POWER! WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ADD POWER TO YOUR DAILY DRIVEN SB FORD?
Here at BANGshift.com we love all engines because we are just fans of horsepower and torque. I happen to be a die hard Chevrolet guy, but I respect all the powerplants regardless of what the trend...
An Off-Road Morgan?! The Morgan CX-T Is One Of The Weirdest Cool Cars We Have Seen In A While
Dec 07, 2021Brian LohnesComments Off on An Off-Road Morgan?! The Morgan CX-T Is One Of The Weirdest Cool Cars We Have Seen In A While
Today we look at rally and off-road racing style cars as fully caged, huge suspension travel capable monsters that leap from dune to dune or fly through the woods at 150mph. Back in the day, that...
Redline Rebuild Teardown: The Next Project Is A 1965 Austin Mini Engine And It Has Some Large Issues
Dec 07, 2021Brian Lohnes2
Now this is interesting! The next Hagerty Redline Rebuild subject is a 1965 Austin Mini and in this video we are going to see the engine get torn to the block and prepared for a trip to the machine...
Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Custom Jack Points And The Cage Will Be Finished!
Dec 04, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Custom Jack Points And The Cage Will Be Finished!
Urchfab has built some fun and cool cars for both the street and the track, with our favorite being the Mongrel which is an old British Ford 100 on a Miata body. But that car is really nice and is...
Driving Lessons: Can Chelsea Denofa, Pro Drifter, Teach Alex Taylor, A Drag Racer, How To Drift?
Dec 03, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Driving Lessons: Can Chelsea Denofa, Pro Drifter, Teach Alex Taylor, A Drag Racer, How To Drift?
Chelsea Denofa is one of my favorite drifters. This dude is super chill, super fun to be around, and puts on a show with a smile every time he’s in the car. He and Vaughn Gittin Jr. are a fun...
Story Behind The Story: This 1964 Film Takes Us Behind The Curtain For The Introduction Of The New Mustang
Dec 02, 2021Brian LohnesComments Off on Story Behind The Story: This 1964 Film Takes Us Behind The Curtain For The Introduction Of The New Mustang
The 1964.5 Mustang is one of the great automotive success stories in the history of the industry’s existence. It was a mildly risky decision that was timed perfectly, introduced in a way...
WRC TRIBUTE 2021: Maximum Attack, On the Limit, Crashes & Best Moments From Rallys Across The Globe
Dec 02, 2021Chad ReynoldsComments Off on WRC TRIBUTE 2021: Maximum Attack, On the Limit, Crashes & Best Moments From Rallys Across The Globe
I used to be a die hard WRC watcher back when each and every race was covered on TV, and it sucks that it’s no longer the case. One thing I loved about the drivers in WRC is that most of them,...
Watch This Awesome Group 5 1978 BMW 320 Rip Around Goodwood – Angry Four Banger!
Dec 02, 2021Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This Awesome Group 5 1978 BMW 320 Rip Around Goodwood – Angry Four Banger!
When the engineers get to to their thing without the bean counters involved, awesome is often the end result. That’s what happened in 1977 and 1978 when BMW decided to go touring car racing and...






