Watch Ken Kull’s Twin Blown Hemi Powered Front Engine Dragster Kill Tires At Beaver Springs Dragway
Mar 21, 2016Brian Lohnes4
There are plenty of guys who will probably roll their eyes at the sights and sounds of Ken Kull’s awesome twin engine blown hemi dragster. Why? Well, because it was built as an exhibition...
Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio
For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...
Would You Rather, The Not-Quite-A-Musclecar Edition: Clean LeMans Or California-Find Dodge Coronet?
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggart21
Not every Pontiac was a GTO Judge. Not every Mopar was a Hemi, or a 440 Six Pack. Not every Mustang had a Boss or a Cobra Jet under the hood. For decades, the 1964-1974 Musclecar Era has been solidly...
Bench Racing: How Would You Prepare This 5-speed 1987 Mercury Cougar?
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggart11
If there is one thing I know that BangShifters are good for, it’s spending other people’s money when it comes to a project car build. And I’m amazed that we don’t exploit that...
Corvette And Porsche Meet The Wall After Meeting Each Other At The 12 Hours Of Sebring!
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
A wet racetrack and a ton of IMSA sports cars make for wild racing, and the 12 Hours of Sebring provided plenty of wild racing scenes, but not many were wilder than the tangle-up between Porsche...
World Record Holding Subaru! 7.29@200 MPH, With Subaru Power Installed!
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
We know that Subarus can be fast, but we’re used to the later-model STIs that came to our shores late. In Australia, they got the hot WRX models straight from Japan in the 1990s, and while they...
This Is What It Looks Like When You Ride Your Dirtbike Into A Barbed Wire Fence At 30 MPH
Mar 21, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on This Is What It Looks Like When You Ride Your Dirtbike Into A Barbed Wire Fence At 30 MPH
As I have mentioned many times in the past, there are some fundamental things keeping me from becoming a motorcycle enthusiast. The first is a distinct lack of coordination and fine motor skills and...
It Came From Craigslist: The Ford Ute We Needed, Not The One We Deserve!
Mar 21, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
The basic plan for the two major American ute designs was to take the station wagon body, give it the coupe doors and turn the rest of the area into a bed. It’s a solid plan, it’s a cheap...
REPLAY: FREE Live Streaming Drag Racing From Muscle Cars At The Strip
Mar 20, 2016Chad Reynolds1
That’s right folks, it’s ANOTHER FREE LIVE Streaming Video weekend here at BangShift.com! That will be our 4th weekend in a row, and we’ve got another race the following weekend...
This Vintage NASCAR Video From The 1964 Riverside 500 Is Fantastic, Tragic, And Enthralling
Mar 20, 2016Brian Lohnes3
As much as lots of people don’t want to admit it, one of the reasons that racing was so popular in the 1960s was because it was high theater. Really, it was. You had these huge colossus...
It Came From Craigslist: We Found G.I. Joe’s Hot Rod In The Form Of A 1972 AMC Javelin Trar!
Mar 20, 2016Bryan McTaggart5
As I write this, it’s two in the morning and I’m possibly hallucinating. I say that because there is no possible way that somebody mated up a “military frame” and a...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Window Shopper
Mar 20, 2016Bryan McTaggart10
By age, I fall into the area where I grew up without the Internet until just before I graduated high school. Referred to as the “Oregon Trail” generation (for the game we played on Apple...
This Nitrous-Equipped Mustang Went Up In Flames At TX2K16!
Mar 20, 2016Bryan McTaggart5
It makes you sick to see this happen to a fellow racer, but one of the best ways to bring the realities of the dangers of racing is to see, without a doubt, just how quickly it all can go wrong. This...
Rough Start: What Happens When You Combine A Ford Thunderbird And A Chevrolet Camaro?
Mar 20, 2016Bryan McTaggart9
The second I saw this 1994 Ford Thunderbird, I couldn’t wait to see the reactions from you guys. Seriously…we all have heard Lohnes’ take on how much he seriously enjoys four-seat...












