Good Jams and Cool Hot Rod – Lords of Nitromethane Short Film
Feb 17, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on Good Jams and Cool Hot Rod – Lords of Nitromethane Short Film
This is a fun short film to show you on a Friday. Made by the Lord of Nitromethane which appear to be out of Germany it captures cruising, horsing around, and wrenching with on a cool and pretty...
Watch Peter Xiberras’ Top Fuel Crash At Sydney Dragway – Lots Of Fire!
Feb 17, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Watch Peter Xiberras’ Top Fuel Crash At Sydney Dragway – Lots Of Fire!
Peter Xiberras’ second-round run at the Santo’s Summer Thunder event at Sydney Dragway was certainly less than desirable. Shortly after launch the bullet in Xiberras’ Top Fuel...
Watch Daddy Dave Comstock Reach For The Sky At Lights Out 8!
Feb 17, 2017Brian Lohnes1
(Video by Johnny Lee Roberts – RaceBarn Motorsports YouTube Channel) – This place is packed to the gills with the best radial cars and door slammers in the world. This place being South...
Hot Ride: Go Onboard For A Few Laps Around Phoenix International Raceway Onboard JR Hildebrand’s IndyCar!
Feb 17, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Hot Ride: Go Onboard For A Few Laps Around Phoenix International Raceway Onboard JR Hildebrand’s IndyCar!
Is it a good or bad sign when the GoPro gets tunnel vision? We don’t normally pay all that much attention to IndyCar, and when we do, it’s usually for the wrong reasons altogether. But...
Funny Cars! Here’s A Collection of Nitro Funny Car Photos From The 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals
Feb 17, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on Funny Cars! Here’s A Collection of Nitro Funny Car Photos From The 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals
(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’ll be back with more sportsman racing photos tomorrow from the 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals but today we’re burning some nitro! Here’s a...
Challenger Demon Video: This Week Features A Wrinkled Drag Radial And Torque!
Feb 16, 2017Brian Lohnes1
This week’s Challenger Demon video is a quick one at only :15 seconds. It is called “Multiplication” and it features the Nitto drag radial tires that the car will be equipped with...
Rough Start: Can An Attitude Adjustment Make A Cheap 1996 Ford Thunderbird Worthwhile?
Feb 16, 2017Bryan McTaggart9
Lohnes’ hatred of pretty much any Ford Thunderbird that isn’t a two-seater with fins is legendary around here. He’d like to see every last one driven off of a cliff, lemming-style,...
BangShift What’s In The Shop Series: We Visit The Legendary Roadster Shop
Feb 16, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift What’s In The Shop Series: We Visit The Legendary Roadster Shop
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – With the BangShift Windy City in the grips of middle winter and outdoor car stuff non existant,we venture out in search for more of our “What’s...
Classic YouTube: Pushing A Jeep Grand Cherokee Too Far In A Tough Truck Competition
Feb 16, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: Pushing A Jeep Grand Cherokee Too Far In A Tough Truck Competition
Ford had Eddie Bauer and Jeep had Orvis. The moss-green color of this ZJ-era Grand Cherokee is a giveaway that this was one of the Orvis Edition Jeeps, which was basically a unique paint job, an...
BangShift Project Files: A Denali, A C3 Corvette, And A Second Chance At Building A Hot Stingray!
Feb 16, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
BangShift forum member SuperBuickGuy is one of those people who always has a ton of projects going on in his shop. The man swings from build to build like George of the Jungle swings from vine to...
2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals Action: Top Sportsman and Top Dragster
Feb 16, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on 2017 NHRA Circle K Winternationals Action: Top Sportsman and Top Dragster
(Photos by Wes Allison) – Top Dragster and Top Sportsman racing were featuring at the NHRA Circle K Winternationals for the first time in 2017. These two classes became part of the NHRA...
Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst You’ve Mangled Yourself While Wrenching?
Feb 16, 2017Bryan McTaggart26
What a freaking day it’s been. Today has been my first attempt at spinning wrenches in honest effort on the rollover Explorer that was drug home as an engine donor for the Great Pumpkin...
Make Way! This Seattle Street Turned Into A Life-Sized Slip and Slide Disaster
Feb 16, 2017Brian LohnesComments Off on Make Way! This Seattle Street Turned Into A Life-Sized Slip and Slide Disaster
Winter is here folks, and about three quarters of the country will likely have to deal with snow and ice at some point over the next few months. What’s that you say? You have anti lock brakes,...
Just Peachy: This 1982 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Street Build Could Be A Budget-Friendly Way To A 1990s Time Machine
Feb 16, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Just Peachy: This 1982 Chevrolet Camaro Pro Street Build Could Be A Budget-Friendly Way To A 1990s Time Machine
This 1982 Chevrolet Camaro could’ve been just about any cover car from any magazine I was reading in grade school. It fits the bill in every possible form for a Pro Street build, and more so...












