Take A Walk Through The Hoonigan Shop And Check Out What’s Just Sitting Around!
Jan 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart2
Sometimes, you have to stop and take stock of what’s going on in the garage. In my garage, there’s three engines, two transmissions, an engine hoist that is eating up a metric ton of...
Morning Symphony: The Unholy Wail Of An Aston Martin Vantage GT4 Rally Car
Jan 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Wait a minute. Wait just one freaking minute. “Rally car?” An Aston Martin Rally Car. Yeah, you read that right, readers, an Aston Martin Vantage GT4 playing on a rally course. I’ll...
Rough Start: Will This Minty Pinto Be The Cheap-Car Start Of Something Good?
Jan 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Even by BangShift standards, a Doublemint-green Ford Pinto station wagon is pushing things just a little bit. We can give the Pinto all the crap in the world about exploding gas tanks and lawsuits...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Ready For Chinese Cars?
Jan 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart15
For a few years now, the question of whether or not Chinese cars would ever be sold in America was nearly laughable…there was no way. No manufacturer had the inroads, and nobody would want to...
Welcome To The New Normal: Motorcyclist Sues GM After Being Injured in Accident With Self Driving Car
Jan 26, 2018Brian Lohnes10
Welp, here we go. While this is not the first lawsuit involving a self driving car, this is one that seems a little more interesting than those that have come before. A guy in California is suing GM...
The LA Run: Listen To This 416ci Small Block Mopar Work Over The Dyno!
Jan 26, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
The small-block Chevrolet is so commonplace that even though it makes great power and can be built dirt-cheap, people are just about sick of seeing them. Small-block Fords can absolutely romp, as...
This 1977 Oshkosh Is A 300hp Truck That Hauls Around A 450hp Snowblower
Jan 26, 2018Brian Lohnes4
While we have not had a ton of snow around BangShift eastern world HQ in Massachusetts, there’s nothing better than being prepared, right? In this case we have found a truck that’s so...
Hip To Be Square: This 1970 Dodge 1000 is Very Rare, Very Cool, and Not Very Round
Jan 25, 2018Brian Lohnes4
(By Greg Rourke) – I admit it, I get a stiffy for big trucks. No, not the seen-one-ya-seen-’em-all Volvos and Freightshakers one sees hauling who knows what down the super slab. I like...
Is This Thing A Hot Rod? The Seller Of This Isuzu Rodeo Certainly Thinks So, But Why?
Jan 25, 2018Tony Sestito10
The term “Hot Rod” has been used for over half a century now to describe basically any vehicle that has been modified in a manner that boosts its performance. Typically, the term is...
Morning Symphony: The Sights And Sounds Of The 2018 Monte Carlo Rally
Jan 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Since 1911, the Monte Carlo Rally has been one of the top-tier premier rally races on the WRC calendar. It’s also the first, bringing the WRC teams through the unpredictable hills and dales of...
Be Ready For Anything With This 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air Trar – Just Fix The Brakes First!
Jan 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Trars…we are fascinated by them here. Some versions more than others, admittedly, but on the grand scheme of things, we tend to appreciate a car that has been repurposed into a four-wheel-drive...
Unhinged: Wait…Why Does My Car Need To Respond To My Emotions, Again?
Jan 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart8
At what point does adding technology to the automobile become stupid? I’m sure most of you will have the knee-jerk “it already has” response, and I don’t blame you for that,...
Wait, That Worked?! The CEO Of Lotus Just Got Lucky Over A Big Speeding Ticket Because He “Needed To Test Drive New Models”
Jan 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart3
Nothing, but nothing, beats that moment when you get the flashing reds and blues in your rearview mirror and you know, deep in your heart, that the uniforms have you dead to rights. You sit in the...
That’s No Aircraft Carrier: Take A Closer Look At The 1980 Cadillac Limo That We Drug Home!
Jan 25, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
We drove through a Halloween scene set in the middle of Nowhere, Kentucky to get it, we drove it nearly a hundred miles back home, and we lived to tell the tale. If you missed the story on how I...












