Show Coverage: The Cars Of Summer Car Show – Green Hill Park, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jul 08, 2014Brian Lohnes3
(Photos by Johnny Gaudette) – For many years, there was a titanic car show that took place in Worcester, Massachusetts each July 4th weekend. Known as the “Summer Nationals” this...
Want To Know What 168 kmh Looks Like On A Mobility Scooter? Watch This.
Jul 08, 2014Chad Reynolds1
Mobility scooters, like the Rascal and Hoveround are what most people think of when they hear the words Mobility Scooter. And with jillions of them being sold and driven around stores near you,...
Check Out This Video Of Don Garlits Talking About Swamp Rat 37, And His Pursuit For 200 MPH!
Jul 08, 2014Chad Reynolds5
Check out this video that Amy and Dave Dayton, of ARS-TV.com, put together interviewing Don Garlits about his Swamp Rat 37 all electric dragster. Garlits and his crew are attempting to run over 200...
Belated 4th Of July Burnout Video From Bullet Motorsports That Will Make Anyone Patriotic
Jul 07, 2014Chad Reynolds3
Take one Marina Blue 1966 Impala, add a couple of red blooded flag waiving American’s, sprinkle in a good dose of throttle and tire smoke is the result. A result we all dig for sure. I was out...
This donut/burnout (A) almost turns ugly and (B) almost makes us want a Mustang II
Jul 07, 2014Craig Fitzgerald12
The Pinto-based Mustang II is the Mustang everybody likes to hate, but I will reveal a deep, dark secret about myself: I’ve always liked them. The tape-kit Cobra was wicked cool, and I even...
Unhinged: Wasps, Mustangs, And The Honey-Do List
Jul 07, 2014Bryan McTaggart4
(“Unhinged” is a new column on BangShift, where McTaggart puts all of his opinions out on the table for everyone to see.) The morning of the Fifth of July, I awoke to a sugar-induced...
BangShift “Would You Rather?”-Which One Could You Live With As A Daily Driver?
Jul 07, 2014Bryan McTaggart31
Even though I stopped hitting the bottle a few years ago like it was my last night on Earth, I can say that I enjoyed the drinking games. I’ve played pretty much all of them…A-hole, King’s Cup,...
Watch A Ratty Old Dodge Truck Completely Spit A Rear Axle Out From Under Itself During A Burnout
Jul 07, 2014Brian Lohnes5
A lot of us joke that our junk is always on the verge of falling to pieces, but the fact is that there are a lot of cars on the road that are literally on the verge of falling to pieces. This old...
Great Gearhead History Video: Men Bet Their Lives On It – Packard Merlin Engines
Jul 07, 2014Brian Lohnes4
If you like history, specifically history related to one of the greatest engines ever designed and built, the Rolls Royce Merlin this 20-minute film is not to be missed. While the boys at Rolls Royce...
Rough Start: Find Your Inner Adventurer In This 1978 Jeep Cherokee
Jul 07, 2014Bryan McTaggart4
Today’s Rough Start sent me to the state of Wyoming…which, due to population density, is another state that has only one Craigslist area. And because Wyoming has almost nobody in the state, they...
Death Defying Group B Rally Footage: Even The Co-Driver Thought They Were Cooked
Jul 07, 2014Brian Lohnes4
If this video doesn’t make you cringe at minimum or wreck your undies at maximum you’re tougher than us. The footage comes from the early 1980s, the era of the Group B rally car, machines...
Dueling Nitrous Explosion Video: A Pair Of Pro Mods Both POP Their Scoops At Norwalk
Jul 07, 2014Brian Lohnes1
When Jim Laurita and Dan Stevenson headed down the strip during qualifying at the 2014 Summit Racing NHRA Nationals last weekend, neither expected to kill their hood scoops during the lap. Funny...
Blow it Up Sunday: Pro Mod Clutch Destruction Like None Other
Jul 06, 2014Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Blow it Up Sunday: Pro Mod Clutch Destruction Like None Other
Pro Mod cars are evil. No really. Now they run as quick, or quicker, than Alcohol Funny Cars, which is basically what engine powers the blown and injected models. It’s insane that they run that...
The Places They Raced: An Abandoned Street Racing Haven
Jul 06, 2014Brian Lohnes2
It is a straightaway to nowhere located off a bustling secondary road in Braintree, Massachsuetts. Ironically, it is now part of a nature reservation, but for several years in the 1960s and early...












