Gas-Tastic! Photos Of The Neatest And Best Running Gassers At The Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion In Bowling Green
Jul 09, 2015Brian Lohnes1
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – What we have here is a collection of gasser-ishness in the form of 50s and 60s cars. There were a lot more of these things rolling around than what we...
Summoning The Beast: Listen To Danny Thompson And The Challenger II Crew Fire Up The Streamliner
Jul 09, 2015Brian Lohnes5
With Bonneville rapidly approaching (only a month away!) land speed racing teams are making their final preparations, entering the final phases of their thrash, and sorting our cars of all shapes and...
Cars and Coffee Coverage: The Indy Cars And Coffee Was Packed With Stuff From Every Aspect Of The Automotive World
Jul 09, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Cars and Coffee Coverage: The Indy Cars And Coffee Was Packed With Stuff From Every Aspect Of The Automotive World
(Photos by Jacob Marshall) – When our main man in Indy, Jacob Marshall told us he was hitting the local Cars and Coffee get together we were interested to see what his photos would depict. Was...
Everybody’s Going Nuts Over The Miami Vice Ferrari That Mecum Is Selling, But Here’s Some Other Cars From The Auction We’d Rather Blow Our Non-Existant Money On!
Jul 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
If you’ve been paying attention to news feeds or your favorite automotive sites besides us, then you’d know that the white 1986 Ferrari Testarossa from Miami Vice is going to cross the...
Question Of The Day: ECTO-1 Got An Update, Do You Care?
Jul 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart12
If you are a fan of the Ghostbusters franchise, then either you’re waiting with anticipation or dread for the 2016 version to hit theaters. Honestly, if you ask me personally, I was never into...
Even More Way-Too-Close Footage From Rally Poland – You Can Almost See The Whites Of Their Eyes!
Jul 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
One overly enthusiastic rally fan with their phone on a selfie stick might not completely convince you that the fans at Rally Poland were getting way too close to the cars for comfort. It’s one...
Reaction Video! Watch As A Couple Of Gearheads From Isreal Meet Insanity Racing’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8!
Jul 09, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Reaction Video! Watch As A Couple Of Gearheads From Isreal Meet Insanity Racing’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8!
The side of me with the twisted humor loves these reaction videos: plant some sucker into the passenger seat of a car that has unholy amounts of power and train a camera onto their face. Then take...
Intake Tech: Edelbrock Drops The Knowledge On Single VS Dual Plane, What May Be Best For You
Jul 09, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Intake Tech: Edelbrock Drops The Knowledge On Single VS Dual Plane, What May Be Best For You
While we all fantasize about building some full-kill engine that can swallow all of the competition whole, ordering your parts by using the “bottom of the page” method of decision making...
A Legend Returns: Tommi Mäkinen To Head Up Toyota’s World Rally Team
Jul 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
(Photos: wrc.com) Tommi Mäkinen’s reputation in World Rally Championship racing is set in stone. The man has four WRC titles under his belt (1996-1999) that he earned while throwing Mitsubishi...
Ebay Find: This 1973 AMC Matador Is The Perfect Big-Blocked Plain Brown Box
Jul 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
We’ve looked at plenty of AMC products here at BangShift, but if there is one model that we don’t pay much attention to, it’s the Matador. Unless you are a die-hard fan of Adam...
This 1962 Buick Invicta Custom Estate Wagon Is The Perfect Cruiser And Slingshot Push Car
Jul 09, 2015Brian Lohnes1
If you had yourself a dragster in the middle to late 1960s, chances are strong that you had a wagon like this one to drag the thing to the track and then push start it. Sure, some of the fancy tracks...
2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion: The Coolest Rods, Trucks, Muscle Cars, and…Vans?!
Jul 08, 2015Brian Lohnes2
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – It was a heck of a weekend at Sterling Airport during the 2015 Orange Drag Strip Reunion. Steve Magnante was announcing the action, hundreds of the coolest...
Rough Start: This Built 1985 Ford Thunderbird Just Might Be The Best Find Yet
Jul 08, 2015Bryan McTaggart13
The entire point of the Rough Start series was to find the best balance between a maximum budget of $5,000 total for a vehicle and the desirable reasons for owning said vehicle. We’ve seen...
HUGE NEWS: BangShift To Provide LIVE Streaming Coverage Of 10th Annual NMCA/NMRA Super Bowl!
Jul 08, 2015Brian Lohnes4
From July 30th through August 2nd BangShift.com will provide live streaming video coverage of the 10th annual NMRA/NMCA Super Bowl of Street Legal Drag Racing. This is a race that combines the...












