Carnage Photos: The BangShift Yin Nova Eats a Valve at 7,000RPM
May 04, 2011Brian Lohnes6
Well this certainly isn’t how we planned it. A couple of weeks back, Chad introduced his big block powered Nova that he called “Yang”. The name comes from the whole “Yin and...
2012 Ford Mustang Super Cobra Jet: We Get Up Close and Personal
May 04, 2011Brian Lohnes3
We got word of a brand spanking new 2012 Mustang Super Cobra Jet that was at our favorite local chassis shop (Tube Chassis Designz) for some tweaks and dropped everything to go check it out. This car...
Barnstormin’: Stumblin’ – Rumblin’ and Bumblin’ – The First Couple Hundred Miles in Goliath
May 04, 2011Brian Lohnes3
Since I got Goliath back from floor replacement surgery a couple of weeks ago, I’ve managed to rack up a couple hundred miles on the truck. The driving has been varied with lots of short trips...
BangShift Tech: Making Big Block Mopar Headers Fit a Small Block Chevy Powered 1965 Impala SS!
May 04, 2011Brian Lohnes3
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – This technical, how-to, blog was not in the plans. It just came about by accident. One of our project cars had small 1 5/8 inch primary tube Hedman...
Catastrophic Explosion Video: A V8 Super Car Fireball From Australia
May 04, 2011Brian Lohnes1
We’d say that there is no single threat greater to a race car driver then fire. From the beginning days of racing, the majority of the developments in race car design have been aimed at...
Cool Video: Freiburger and Finnegan Road Trip the Super Bee to Vegas!
May 03, 2011Brian Lohnes7
One of the hottest running stories in Hot Rod Magazine over the course of the last year has been the revival of Freiburger’s long dormant 1970 Dodge Super Bee. He’s owned the car since he...
BangShift Reader Garage of the Week: The Whole Freakin’ Crew at MSD!
May 03, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on BangShift Reader Garage of the Week: The Whole Freakin’ Crew at MSD!
The BangShift reader garage section is quickly piling up with cool garages highlighting reader’s rides. We’ve got everything from drag cars to t-buckets in there with everything in...
Killer Upcoming Movie: The Boys of Bonneville
May 03, 2011Brian Lohnes3
In terms of cool racing related movies, films focusing on land speed racing at Bonneville have been pretty damned good. “The World’s Fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins is a...
Show Gallery: The NEATTA Spring Tractor Pull and Antique Tractor Show
May 02, 2011Brian Lohnes19
Our annual rite of Spring arrived just yesterday in the form of the New England Antique Truck and Tractor Association’s Spring Show and Pull. This year we had a twist on our visitation of the...
Car Show Gallery: The 24th Annual Seal Beach Classic Car Show
May 02, 2011Brian Lohnes1
The town of Seal Beach, California has been holding this weekend long car show for nearly a quarter century! In that space of time, lots of stuff has changed, and in many ways for the worse. What has...
Gallery: The 2011 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet
May 02, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Gallery: The 2011 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet
Joe Grippo was at the 2011 Spring Carlisle Sawp Meet this past weekend and he filed a great pile of photos from the event. While the internet has really put a damper on the whole “swap...
The 2011 Keels and Wheels Concours d’Elegance – Seabrook, Texas
May 02, 2011Brian Lohnes3
We’re starting a big day of galleries in Texas at a very unique show, the Keels and Wheels Concours d’elegance in Seabrook, Texas. This is not a hoity-toity Pebble Beach type deal....
The Parting Shift: Carl Tasca Banging Gears in the World’s Quickest Cobra Jet
Apr 29, 2011Brian Lohnes2
BangShift is fortunate to have a great relationship with the Tasca family of Rhode Island. From NHRA Funny Car racer Bob Tasca III to Cobra Jet gear jammer extrodinare Carl Tasca, we’ve spent...
Awesome Old Drag Video: Fuel Altereds, Floppers, and Other Stuff At Irwindale Raceway Circa 1971
Apr 29, 2011Brian Lohnes5
This is a cool piece of video, twelve minutes to be exact, featuring a big event at Irwindale Raceway back in 1971. There are awesome fuel floppers, fuel altereds and slingshot Top Fuel dragsters...












