HOT ROD MAGAZINE DRAG WEEK 2013 DATES CONFIRMED
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes11
Big news kids! Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 will be contested 9/8 -9/13 with a September 14 rain date if necessary. Hot Rod has not released the tracks for Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2013 yet, but...
Watch A Nova Fly Through And Then Off The Course At Last Weekend’s Run To The Coast Four!
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes2
Last weekend at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California the American Street Car Series held their Run To The Coast 4 event. This is one of the premier pro touring gatherings in the...
Funny Car Forensics: Can You Give Us Some History About This Flopper On The Shelf?
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes13
Our buddy Blair is the lead man at the clandestine “bat cave body shop” that we visit from time to time here on BangShift. We happened by the shop the other day and while there was some...
Craigslist Find: A 100% Bitchin LS Swapped 1978 Chevy Bonanza Pickup Truck – SO SO GOOD!
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes3
Lately our Craigslist finds have been strange contraption but this is a literally thing of beauty and it is priced right, too. We often joke about “if we had the money” but really, if we...
Carnage Photos: The Aftermath Of The Incredible Folding Plow Truck Video
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes12
Yesterday I stopped by DMC Racing in Halifax, Massachusetts to catch up on some of their bitchin’ projects, new products, and to catch a glimpse of their famously dead yard truck that we dubbed...
Video: Watch A Late Model Aussie Ford Falcon With A Turbocharged Straight Six Make 1,000hp At The Tires – Aeromotive Products On Board!
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes1
GM got the memo that the Aussies get some cool RWD cars and that we should get them too, hence the G8 and the upcoming Chevy SS. Ford still has not answered the pained cries of its fans to bring over...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Rev On The Redline – Foreigner (1979)
Feb 27, 2013Brian Lohnes4
Here’s a good listen from the late 1970s in the form of the Foreigner tune Rev On The Redline. We’d never heard this one before digging it up completely by accident on YouTube. The song...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Off-Road Race Would You Most Want To Drive In?
Feb 26, 2013Chad Reynolds6
I’ve been to Baja, have been a Paris Dakar fan for decades, think WRC drivers are awesome, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing rules, and know that most all of the drivers at any of these, or countless...
Video: What The Hell Is Breslau? Apparently It’s The Most Bad Ass Rally On Earth. And Some “Creative” American’s Are Trying It.
Feb 26, 2013Chad Reynolds4
We’d never heard of Breslau either. But now that we know, all we want to do is go race in it like these lucky dudes. The rally starts in Poland, and ends in Germany, after driving through crazy...
Video: 20 Minutes Of Awesome… In Car Footage From Bathurst’s Bill E Bad Ass Track… In An Imp!
Feb 26, 2013Chad Reynolds12
“What the hell is an Imp?” That’s what I said, when BangShift Web Nerd Scott Payton sent me this video yesterday. It turns out a Hillman Imp is an 875cc aluminum four cylinder...
Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: But It Was Cheap! Oh Those Famous Last Words…
Feb 26, 2013Chad Reynolds2
In the last installment of Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, Rodney brought us to the present with some inspiring words about a driving school that he had recently attended. In this installment of...
eBay Find: A 1967 Chevy C-10 That’s Really The Bomb!
Feb 26, 2013Brian Lohnes6
No we really mean it, the freaking BOMB baby! With a 125-gallon gas tank mounted right behind the cab, a shortened up chassis, and some nice cab patina, this truck could become Sputnik’s cousin...
Drag Video: Watch A Sleeper Turbo 460 Ford Powered Maverick Thunder Down The Strip – Street Sweeping Perfection!
Feb 26, 2013Brian Lohnes9
Our buddy and BS photo contributor Tommy Lee Byrd unknowingly tipped us off to his buddy’s beyond bitchin’ sleeper Maverick the other day. This thing is a pretty basic combo that is still...
Action Gallery: Tug of War, Rock Crawling, And Pit Photos From The 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog
Feb 26, 2013Brian LohnesComments Off on Action Gallery: Tug of War, Rock Crawling, And Pit Photos From The 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog
(Photos by Dave Nutting and the author) – Yesterday we showed you killer mega-truck action from the 2013 Vermonster 4×4 Snow bog and today we’re coming back with a bunch more action...












