The USCA Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car, Survival Guide
Jul 29, 2014Chad Reynolds4
We’re halfway through the USCA racing season, and it’s been a great journey on Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car. If you are looking for bitchin Pro Touring and Exotic...
Chryslers At Carlisle: A Collection Of Nothing But B and E Body Photos – Cool Iron Abounds
Jul 29, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Chryslers At Carlisle: A Collection Of Nothing But B and E Body Photos – Cool Iron Abounds
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Even among non-Mopar people, there are two body styles that the company produced which cross all brand boundary lines. The venerable B-bodies and E-bodies have been...
Mad Max: Fury Road – The Trailer Is Released And It Looks As Insane As You Hoped It Would Be
Jul 29, 2014Brian Lohnes4
There’s something almost fun and cornball about the original Mad Max movies that were made for like $14.00 and a Vegamite sandwich in Australia. Campy, a little weird, and full of wild sets and...
eBay Find: This 1957 Chevy Short Bus Is Window Lickin’ Good
Jul 29, 2014Brian Lohnes3
Old school buses are a special kind of neat, but old short buses? Those things are in a league of their own and this one proves it. When you combine the classic looks of a 1957 Chevy truck and a body...
Cruise Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Association Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, Massachusetts
Jul 29, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Cruise Gallery: The Mass Cruisers Association Bass Pro Shops Cruise – Foxboro, Massachusetts
Due to a travel schedule that has ranged from nutty to actually needing a time machine to get to places on time, I have been one slacking jerk in the coverage of the local cruise scene here at home....
Video: How To Sell The Toyota Hilux Using A Lot Of Japanese Businessmen And A Gorilla
Jul 29, 2014Bryan McTaggart1
The Toyota Hilux is a world-renowned badass, known for it’s reliability and toughness, the likes of which have been tested over battlefields and damn near everything that Top Gear has ever...
Hellcat, Now In Screaming Passengers Edition-Charger Will Get Mopar’s Newest Mountain Motor!
Jul 29, 2014Bryan McTaggart6
This was speculated ever since the Hellcat rumors started spreading around, but now that the SAE paperwork for a Hellcat Charger was discovered, it’s confirmed. Charger mules with the nose...
Historical Crash-Test Footage: You Might Not Want To Watch Your Car Hit The Wall
Jul 28, 2014Bryan McTaggart1
Here’s how this story goes: I occasionally make fun of Brian’s addiction to all things involving large truck. He just nods and smiles. I take it a step further and call him out over the...
Rough Start: This Lincoln Will Be Waiting For You In Mobile
Jul 28, 2014Bryan McTaggart6
I’ve been to Mobile, Alabama once. I wasn’t supposed to go out of the hotel that night, but I did…walked about a mile, found a nice jazz joint with some killer food and soaked up...
Bonneville Speed Week 2014: Bonneville By The Numbers – Useful, Useless, Interesting, And Inane Stats For The Salt
Jul 28, 2014Brian Lohnes5
With 100 years of racing history being celebrated on the Bonneville Salt Flats this August at SCTA Speed Week, I thought it would be interesting to delve into some of the stuff that can be gleaned...
FBI Searches Ford HQ After Employee Bugs A Conference Room. No, Really, It Happened.
Jul 28, 2014Bryan McTaggart7
This one sounds like it came directly from the Watergate files. A former Ford employee, 43 year old Sharon Leach, had her home raided by the FBI in June. Among items seized were computers, portable...
Chryslers At Carlisle 2014: Sweet Wagons, Vans, and Trucks – The Coolest Of The Cool
Jul 28, 2014Brian Lohnes2
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Our man Grippo was on the scene recently at the famed Chryslers at Carlisle show where some of the coolest, most rare, unique, and sought after Chrysler products...
Holley To Sponsor National Corvette Museum’s New Racetrack Control Tower Building – Will They Let Us In?
Jul 28, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Holley To Sponsor National Corvette Museum’s New Racetrack Control Tower Building – Will They Let Us In?
Chad and I got super excited when we heard that Holley and the National Corvette Museum had reached an agreement that will see Holley’s name proudly displayed as the sponsor of the new state of...
STARTING TOMORROW: The Salt Flats Of Salduro – Our Incredible Series Documenting The First Racing At Bonneville, 100 Years Ago
Jul 28, 2014Brian Lohnes1
Starting tomorrow, we’ll begin publishing the first installment of the longest, most involved, and most detailed series of stories we have ever run on BangShift. Penned by Bret Kepner and...