Many BangShift Sponsors Hosting Seminars At The Detroit Autorama – View The Schedule And Sign Up Here – FREE Gearhead Schoolin’
Mar 04, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Many BangShift Sponsors Hosting Seminars At The Detroit Autorama – View The Schedule And Sign Up Here – FREE Gearhead Schoolin’
The Hot Rod Industry Alliance’s Education Day at the 2014 Autorama is must attend stuff for any gearhead wanting to learn more about virtually any aspect of this car. We’re very proud...
Watch The First Sinkhole Rescue Corvette, The ZR1 Blue Devil Fire Up And Drive Out While Leaking Oil Like The Exxon Valdez
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch The First Sinkhole Rescue Corvette, The ZR1 Blue Devil Fire Up And Drive Out While Leaking Oil Like The Exxon Valdez
In what can only be described as a fantastic moral victory for all the Corvette enthusiasts and lovers of American automotive history out there, the first car has been plucked successfully from the...
eBay Find: Bobbed Deuce And A Half + 1970 Chevy Truck = Tough Job With Stunning Results
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on eBay Find: Bobbed Deuce And A Half + 1970 Chevy Truck = Tough Job With Stunning Results
The only crappy part about owning this truck is that people will just look at it and assume all the builder did was to somehow jam a Chevy body onto a frame from an M35A deuce and a half army truck,...
Watch LIVE Streaming Video Of Corvettes Being Pulled From Museum Sinkhole NOW!
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch LIVE Streaming Video Of Corvettes Being Pulled From Museum Sinkhole NOW!
As you read this a crew of riggers using a couple of cranes, lots of safety gear, and all of their expertise are working on extracting the infamous “sinkhole Corvettes” from their pit of...
Video Of 88-Year Old Jack McClure Testing His Rocket Go Kart Emerges – The Hero Rides Again!
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Video Of 88-Year Old Jack McClure Testing His Rocket Go Kart Emerges – The Hero Rides Again!
On a lonely and deserted road somewhere in Florida history was made recently when Captain Jack McClure sat it, staged, and fired the hydrogen peroxide rocket engine that powers his legendary go kart...
Autocross Season Is Upon Us! Does YOUR Region Offer the CAM class?
Mar 03, 2014Dave NuttingComments Off on Autocross Season Is Upon Us! Does YOUR Region Offer the CAM class?
This last weekend I received a reminder email from the New England region SCCA club letting me know that the first points autocross event of the year is in less than four weeks. Say what?!?...
No Comments….DON’T PANIC! Here’s The Story And When They’ll Be Back
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on No Comments….DON’T PANIC! Here’s The Story And When They’ll Be Back
Hey everyone, sorry about the lack of commenting ability this morning. Many of you have asked what the story is so here’s the deal. We have a new version of BangShift’s front page that we...
Who Does This? Here’s The Most Beat Down Grand National For Sale In America Today
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Who Does This? Here’s The Most Beat Down Grand National For Sale In America Today
Get a load of this sad sack SOB of a Grand National? If there is a more worn out, beat up, tired ass looking GN for sale in the continental USA we’ve never seen it. This car appears to have...
Accidental Treasures: Stuff I Found in my ’79 Blazer
Mar 03, 2014Craig FitzgeraldComments Off on Accidental Treasures: Stuff I Found in my ’79 Blazer
Over the last few weeks, I’ve published a few stories about the work I’m doing on my ’79 Blazer. You’ll read more about it every Friday for the next few months. I really got...
Tom Medley Dies At 93 – Original Hot Rod Magazine Staffer, Cartoonist, Publisher, and Hot Rodder
Mar 03, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Tom Medley Dies At 93 – Original Hot Rod Magazine Staffer, Cartoonist, Publisher, and Hot Rodder
(Photo Credit: Hot Rod Magazine) – The story of Tom Medley is like so many stories surrounding the early influencers of the hot rodding world. He was a smart, talented, driven, funny guy who...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Dangerous Production Car Ever Built?
Mar 02, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Dangerous Production Car Ever Built?
We realize that this kind of an odd question because like guns, a car in itself is not inherently dangerous. It is when said car is placed in the hands of a human being that all bets are officially...
Gas-Tastic Video: This Promo Video For The Nostalgia AA/Gassers Group Is All Thunder, Smoke, And Action
Mar 02, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Gas-Tastic Video: This Promo Video For The Nostalgia AA/Gassers Group Is All Thunder, Smoke, And Action
As we told you last week, there are a ton of cool things happening in the sport of drag racing, especially if you dig the old stuff. From the explosion in popularity of nostalgia drag racing in...
Craigslist Find: A 1989 Camaro Is Being Parted Out One Questionable Decision At A Time
Mar 02, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on Craigslist Find: A 1989 Camaro Is Being Parted Out One Questionable Decision At A Time
Third generation Camaros seem to be in an interesting time with regard to people’s opinion of them. They have moved from the “open mockery” phase to the “kind of cool”...
eBay Find: This 1964 Ford F-250 4×4 Is Pretty Rare, Really Awesome, And Totally Something We Need
Mar 02, 2014Brian LohnesComments Off on eBay Find: This 1964 Ford F-250 4×4 Is Pretty Rare, Really Awesome, And Totally Something We Need
Listen, I know that I have a problem. I should be stalking eBay and getting the flop sweats for big block Chevelles, worked up first gen Camaros, and wild hot rods with huge motors and way more power...












