Category Archive: BangShift News, Racing Junk Find
Racing Junk Find: A 1974 Corvette With Some Dubious Claims Behind It
Jan 19, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: A 1974 Corvette With Some Dubious Claims Behind It
When we run across an ad for a “1500hp” Corvette that was originally equipped with a 427/435hp engine…in 1974 we need to share it. There is clearly a photo showing a 427ci/435hp...
Racing Junk Find: A 1970 Chevelle SS Wagon We’re Selling a Kidney For
Jan 12, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: A 1970 Chevelle SS Wagon We’re Selling a Kidney For
Old wagons are cool in all of their forms, but when said wagon had been warmed up with respect to performance, the cool meter gets pegged. Such is the case with this kick ass 1970 Chevelle wagon that...
Racing Junk Find: A Built to the Hilt Chevy Even Goliath Would Bow To!
Jan 05, 2011Brian Lohnes1
This is one bad ass Chevy. Packing the best of the best in parts and construction this mud racing monster has a full roller 496ci big block Chevy that cranks out 600hp. That power gets sent through...
Racing Junk Find: The Wildest Jeep in the West
Dec 29, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: The Wildest Jeep in the West
Man, we have to find a way to hit the sand dunes some day. Why? Because bat poop crazy stuff like this Jeep packing a 600ci big blog is there. This baby must be able to throw sand grains into low...
Racing Junk Find: A Gorgeous 1964 Pontiac Catalina with Tri-Power 421 Power
Dec 23, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: A Gorgeous 1964 Pontiac Catalina with Tri-Power 421 Power
Early 1960s Pontiacs have a class all their own. In their time, not much was capable of hanging with them on the strip. The 421ci Super Duty engine was legend and having a street car sporting that...
Racing Junk Find: A 1933 Ford Dump Truck That Proves We’re Not As Weird As We Think We Are
Dec 08, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: A 1933 Ford Dump Truck That Proves We’re Not As Weird As We Think We Are
If we knew the guy who commissioned the building of this totally awesome 1933 Ford dump truck racer, we’d give him a bear hug. Why? Because it proves that we’re not the total freak job...
Racing Junk Find: The Craziest Freaking Project We Have Ever Seen
Nov 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: The Craziest Freaking Project We Have Ever Seen
We were happily searching RacingJunk recently when we navigated into the exhibition drag racing vehicle section. We expected a jet car, wheelstander, or some other vehicle along those lines. Instead...
RacingJunk Find: A Cool (and Cheap) 1973 Ford Pinto V8
Oct 07, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Cool (and Cheap) 1973 Ford Pinto V8
Ah, the Ford Pinto. Derided in its time as an underpowered rolling dose of Napalm, the venerable Pinto now enjoys cult status as a good start for a hot rod project. They were kind of weird looking in...
Racing Junk Find: Two Piles of Pontiac Power
Sep 17, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: Two Piles of Pontiac Power
We were doing a logical thing the other day, shopping for engines that would be perfect for vehicles we don’t own. Eschewing the Chevrolet and Ford families, we were looking for something weird...
Racing Junk Find: The $8500 Oldsmobile Rear End
Sep 03, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Racing Junk Find: The $8500 Oldsmobile Rear End
Just because the economy is imitating a Valu-Jet swamp landing doesn’t mean that insane prices for rare muscle parts have gone down. We found a listing on RacingJunk.com for an Oldsmobile W27...
RacingJunk Find: A Crazed, Turbocharged, Speed Buggy Autocross Killer (w/Video)
Aug 27, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Crazed, Turbocharged, Speed Buggy Autocross Killer (w/Video)
We’ve got go-karts on the brain recently, and there’s a reason, which you’ll find out about next week. That being the case, we went hunting for neat stuff on RacingJunk and found...
RacingJunk Find: A Race Ready LSR 1977 Corvette
Aug 19, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Race Ready LSR 1977 Corvette
With Chad being stationed on the salt all week providing updates and information Speed Week that you’re literally not going to get anywhere else, we’ve totally gone nuts scheming on LSR...
RacingJunk Find: A Neato 1977 Ford Class 8100 Off Road Racing Truck
Aug 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Neato 1977 Ford Class 8100 Off Road Racing Truck
We always tell you that we’re lusting after the various vehicles we find on our normal slate of websites that sell cool stuff, but this time we really mean it. This 1977 Ford desert racing...
RacingJunk Find: A Cool LSR 1927 Ford Rear-Engine Roadster
Aug 03, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A Cool LSR 1927 Ford Rear-Engine Roadster
After spending one of the better weekends of our gearhead life at Loring, Maine last weekend in the thick of the LSR action, we’re stuck on the idea of having a car to screw around with in the...