Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, Monday Shopper, OTHER
Would You Rather: Datsun S30 Z-Car – Do You Like Yours Original Or Extra Spicy?
Nov 21, 2018Bryan McTaggart11
The Nissan S30 chassis, which is familiar to most people as the Nissan/Datsun 240Z, was a home run for the company when it went on sale in 1970. Small, light, nimble, powerful, and easily accessible,...
Street Machine Drag Challenge 2018: The Final Day Of Racing And The Results!
Nov 21, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Street Machine Drag Challenge 2018: The Final Day Of Racing And The Results!
Just because the road laws in Australia are about as draconian and panic-driven as an HOA’s set of rules regarding parking spaces and lawn care doesn’t mean that Australia can’t...
Watch A WWII Runway Get Rolled Out Like A Carpet – 14 Hours From Wheat Field To Air Strip
Nov 20, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch A WWII Runway Get Rolled Out Like A Carpet – 14 Hours From Wheat Field To Air Strip
Color us surprised! We knew that there were loads of methods of creating air strips quickly during WWII but we had no idea that one of them was basically rolling one out like a carpet! The video...
SEMA 2018: Our Pals At Flowmaster, B&M, and Hurst Had Loads Of Cool Stuff To See!
Nov 20, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on SEMA 2018: Our Pals At Flowmaster, B&M, and Hurst Had Loads Of Cool Stuff To See!
(Photos by the author) – When it comes to amazingly diverse product lines, our pals at Flowmaster, B&M, and Hurst kind of lead the way. We’re talking exhaust systems that sound great...
Scalpel, Meet Sledgehammer: A Dakar Kamaz And A Drift-Set RX-8 Meet Up In Russia
Nov 20, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Scalpel, Meet Sledgehammer: A Dakar Kamaz And A Drift-Set RX-8 Meet Up In Russia
Mike Whiddett has the nickname “Mad Mike” for a reason. His penchant for taking rotary-powered Mazdas and flinging them as far sideways as he dares is something to behold. His RX-8, known...
Big Is Back! Video Of Revised Swamp Rat 38 Electric Dragster Heating The Hides Here!
Nov 20, 2018Brian Lohnes5
Now this is awesome. While we get that loads of people are not into the whole electric drag racing thing (we’re not exactly jumping up and down about it, either) we are huge fans of people...
Grand LS Swap: This 1977 Pontiac Grand LeMans Wagon Is Ready To Rip
Nov 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
An older GM station wagon and the undeniable power potential of the LS engine. Argue with me all you care to about how it’s sacrilegious or how it’s otherwise some kind of affront to...
Craigslist Find: This Old Hawks Indy 500 Chevy Small Block Is AWESOME!
Nov 20, 2018Brian Lohnes4
Back in the early 1980s when the Indy 500 was still the kind of place where you could build some weird stuff and try to run it as hard and as fast as it would go, the engines were super interesting....
How The Mighty Have Fallen: Carlos Ghosn Arrested In Japan For Financial Misconduct
Nov 20, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Do you want to know what “painful” sounds like? It sounds like the final “thump” of a body that has fallen from great heights down to the bedrock of the planet. Which is where...
Street Car Super Nationals 14: Door Car Fun In The Mojave Sun
Nov 19, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Street Car Super Nationals 14: Door Car Fun In The Mojave Sun
The show is over, the finals are done and the winners are crowned, but our coverage from Street Car Super Nationals 14 is not over by any stretch of the imagination! Chad and Cole stuck it out all...
Racing Junk Find: You’ve Never Craved A 440ci Chrysler Big Block Powered Pulling Freightliner?
Nov 19, 2018Brian Lohnes3
Big rig pulling trucks are awesome in whatever form they show up in, seriously. Whether they are worked, long-nose big rigs with huge diesel engines or machines like this with a stubby design and of...
Full Circle: This Beautiful Story Featuring A 1955 Austin Healey 100S Speaks To Cars And Life
Nov 19, 2018Brian Lohnes2
For many of us, cars are among the most influential forces in our lives. Not in the weird way but in the sense that we have grown up with memories centered around them. The first ones we ever saw....
Dream Big: This 1979 Dodge Aspen Looks Like A Stock-Class Legend!
Nov 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
Not every street-legal dragstrip warrior is a ten-second monster that intimidates sport-utilities everywhere it goes. Some play a different numbers game, where dead-nuts consistency and easy...
Barnstormin’: An Overnight Success Talks About How Long The Night Really Was
Nov 19, 2018Brian Lohnes52
(Lead photo by Courtney Enders) – Perhaps by now a few of you have heard that I was offered and accepted the job of being the lead play by play guy for the NHRA on FOX in 2019 and beyond. I...





