Category Archive: BangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos
SEND IT! Mega Trucks Earning Their Wings At Maximum Power Park!
Jul 28, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
If there was ever a legitimate reason for building a Mega Truck, it’s long gone to history as far as we’re concerned…to us they are the middleman between a street-legal lifted beast...
Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!
Jul 28, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Stick-Shift Class At Street Car Takeover Charlotte!
You know what makes a turd like a 1989 Hyundai decent to drive? A manual transmission. Same goes for a Ford Festiva, a Dodge Ram 50, an early 1990s Beretta, and many other cars we’d love to...
Morning Symphony: The 1987 Volkswagen Golf II – Double The Engines, Double The Fun!
Jul 27, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The 1987 Volkswagen Golf II – Double The Engines, Double The Fun!
Picture this: it’s 1987, and Pikes Peak is coming up quickly. Everybody and their mother is running recently orphaned Group B rally cars. The mountain still has dirt stages, drivers have more...
Amateur Hour Done Right: Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge, Doorhandle To Doorhandle!
Jul 26, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Amateur Hour Done Right: Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge, Doorhandle To Doorhandle!
Normally, the idea of spectator drag racing in our heads involves a small asphalt circle track, a motley crew of machines, and an announcer that sounds like Lohnes after a few beers in his system,...
Morning Symphony: Old-School Blown Cadillac Burnouts At Hoonigan!
Jul 23, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
You don’t know the name Houston Hooker. You probably don’t know the name Kanan Hooker…he’s one of the producers for Hoonigan and part of the reason you’re seeing this...
Level Up: Drifting The Wee Out Of A Charity-Auction Mustang!
Jul 23, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Level Up: Drifting The Wee Out Of A Charity-Auction Mustang!
Ever since I dragged home a red 1994 Mustang that will ultimately be blown apart for many different reasons, I’ve had visions of what an SN-95 ‘Stang could be. They are new enough to be...
Morning Symphony: Doing Things The Natural Way In A Cutlass
Jul 22, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Are we really about to say that power adders aren’t necessary? Hell no. I’ve got a supercharger kick that has stuck with me since I first found out what an Eaton M90 can do to a Buick V6...
Finnegan Takes Blasphemi For A Hooligan Visit And Does A Burnout In The Shop!
Jul 21, 2018Chad Reynolds1
The other day we were at Westech Performance Group and saw that Blasphemi, Mike Finnegan’s bitchin ’55 Chevy Gasser was at the shop to get a tune for the new blower. Yes, the beast is now...
Fox-Body Fuzz: Nothing Like A Fairmont With A Lightbar Against You At The Strip!
Jul 20, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Fox-Body Fuzz: Nothing Like A Fairmont With A Lightbar Against You At The Strip!
The Ford Motor Company has enjoyed a long and illustrious partnership with many a police force not only in the United States but around the world. Models like the LTD, Crown Victoria, Mustang SSP,...
Aero-Whooped: This 1979 Caprice Stomps A Camaro At The Streetwhipsz Mega Show
Jul 20, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Aero-Whooped: This 1979 Caprice Stomps A Camaro At The Streetwhipsz Mega Show
You’ve heard of seller’s remorse, right? I’ve got builder’s remorse. It’s when I look back on the cars I’ve owned or passed up on that I could’ve made into...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Best “That’s Not Appropriate” Car You’ve Seen On The Track?
Jul 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart6
I started autocrossing out at Bremerton Raceway in 2010. I had worked a race back in 1998 as a cone-shagger, a volunteer detail for the NJROTC unit I was attached to in high school, and what it...
Morning Symphony: More Automotive Awesomeness From The 2018 Goodwood Festival Of Speed!
Jul 17, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: More Automotive Awesomeness From The 2018 Goodwood Festival Of Speed!
The stage show that is the Goodwood Festival of Speed is over and done, but we still have plenty of footage of drool-worthy machines from all forms and eras of motorsports that took the stroll up the...
Morning Symphony: How Expensive Is A Real-Deal Shelby Daytona? Who Cares When It’s Being Beat On Like A Rented Mule!
Jul 16, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
$7.25 million dollars. That’s the kind of sum that one of the six real-deal Shelby Daytona vehicles that the chicken farmer cranked out has pulled at an auction. That’s a hell of a lot of...
Kansas City Cash Days! Super-Close Racing With A Mix Of Rides On The Plains!
Jul 13, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Kansas City Cash Days! Super-Close Racing With A Mix Of Rides On The Plains!
There’s nothing like close, tight racing that leaves everybody wondering just who in the hell took the stripe at the end. Nothing. And when it’s two cars that are fighting and losing the...






