Event Gallery: The Kontinentals 9th Annual Day of the Drag Race – Vintage Rods on the Strip!
Oct 05, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Event Gallery: The Kontinentals 9th Annual Day of the Drag Race – Vintage Rods on the Strip!
Charles Wickam recently attended the 9th annual Kontinentals Car Club Day of the Drag Race held at historic Little River Dragway outside of Temple, Texas. The historic strip, which opened in 1959, is...
Elderly Junkyard Owner Beaten With Bat, Shoots Attackers With Shotgun, Is Totally Bad Ass
Oct 05, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Elderly Junkyard Owner Beaten With Bat, Shoots Attackers With Shotgun, Is Totally Bad Ass
When a couple of young punks waited in the shadows for elderly junkyard owner Stanley Tabaj to open his Pennsylvania business last Monday they thought a couple of baseball bats and a taser would be...
Weirdo Dyno Video: An Awesome Blown 345ci International Harvester V8 Makes a Few Pulls
Oct 05, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Weirdo Dyno Video: An Awesome Blown 345ci International Harvester V8 Makes a Few Pulls
The International Harvester 345 and 392ci V8 engines were tough, heavy, and thirsty engines. The 345 was the biggest engine offered in the venerable Scout and despite being a workaday oxen of an...
Bullets, Fingers Fly at Aussie Drag Strip During Crazy Biker Brawl
Oct 05, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Bullets, Fingers Fly at Aussie Drag Strip During Crazy Biker Brawl
A recent motorcycle drag racing event at the Perth Motorplex in Perth, Australia turned violent when rival biker gangs got into an altercation. There were bikers wounded by bullets, fists, and in at...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1971 Lamborghini Miura
Oct 05, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Auto Trader Classics Find: A 1971 Lamborghini Miura
Recently we polled members of the BangShift forums about their level of interest in the new Lamborghini that made a big splash at the Paris Auto Show. The votes were split right up the middle with...
Freakshow: Mopar Unveils V10 Powered 2011 Drag Pak Challenger
Oct 04, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Freakshow: Mopar Unveils V10 Powered 2011 Drag Pak Challenger
Well, things just got weird. While there is a part of us rejoicing over the fact that Mopar has enough life left in it to jam a 512ci V10 into the front of a 2011 Dodge Challenger and sell it as a...
Wreckage Videos: Doorslammer Carnage From Shakedown at E-Town
Oct 04, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Wreckage Videos: Doorslammer Carnage From Shakedown at E-Town
The 2010 Shakedown at E-Town produced a raft of amazing performances as well as some truly scary wreckage. The most major crash involved Benny Alphonso who was on a solo run and impacted the wall at...
240 plus Photos from the 2010 GoodGuys Lonestar Nationals
Oct 02, 2010Chad ReynoldsComments Off on 240 plus Photos from the 2010 GoodGuys Lonestar Nationals
The 2010 GoodGuys car show season continues this weekend with hot rods, muscle cars, street machines, street rods and trucks cruising the grounds at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The...
The Parting Shift: Wheels Up and Screaming at Atco, NJ
Oct 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: Wheels Up and Screaming at Atco, NJ
We’ll leave you this week with some great footage from Atco, New Jersey. The two cars featured are super stockers sporting small block engines and crash boxes. The vintage Corvette is pretty...
Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage – A Super Light Hybrid Shocks the Crowd
Oct 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage – A Super Light Hybrid Shocks the Crowd
While recovering from injuries suffered during a police beating while in Montreal, we caught wind of another significant automotive related surprise that was to be released on the general public in a...
Twin Cacklefests Shaping Up to be Epic for the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion
Oct 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Twin Cacklefests Shaping Up to be Epic for the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion
Aside from the awesome racing that will be had during the 2010 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion coming in just a couple of weeks to Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, the event will now...
Wind Tunnel Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Superbird at A2
Oct 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Wind Tunnel Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s 1971 Superbird at A2
Gary and Pam Beineke’s names are no strangers to the electronic pages of BangShift.com. We’ve featured several of their cars, highlighted the amazing work they did on a recent project to...
Not a Joke: VW Talking With Penske on Potential NASCAR Involvement
Oct 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Not a Joke: VW Talking With Penske on Potential NASCAR Involvement
Calling all metro-sexuals! You soon may have a new weekend activity to participate in if your beloved VW brand makes a move into NASCAR, as the company is reportedly considering. VW is actually...
Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage: 2011 Ram Trucks Revealed
Oct 01, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Paris Auto Show 2010 Coverage: 2011 Ram Trucks Revealed
With our coverage of the 2010 Paris Auto Show in full swing, we looked over our shoulder at the other guy’s covering this show and realized that they are in the wrong place. Apparently they...