The Parting Shift: An AMX-cellent Four Gear Pass Down the Quarter Mile
Jan 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on The Parting Shift: An AMX-cellent Four Gear Pass Down the Quarter Mile
We’re closing out the week with an awesome nine second, gear banging AMX that was filmed at Thompson Dragway in Thompson, Ohio a couple years ago. The car sports an AMC power plant from the...
They’re Still Building New Steam Locomotives in India
Jan 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on They’re Still Building New Steam Locomotives in India
The last steam locomotive built in America rolled out of the factory in 1952. We recently got tipped off to a news story from an Indian paper that tells about four brand new steam locomotives being...
Chute Fail Video: Jeff Lutz Stops His 200mph Shoebox With No Parachutes
Jan 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Chute Fail Video: Jeff Lutz Stops His 200mph Shoebox With No Parachutes
Jeff Lutz’s 1957 Chevy is completely bad ass and gave ol’ Larry Larson a big run for his money during Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week last year. On one of Jeff’s best runs, a 7.11...
Friday Update: Team BangShift Puts the Wraps on the Road Tour Express
Jan 28, 2011Brian Lohnes2
The first Road Tour Express of 2011 is underway and BangShift has fielded a team of crack operatives to kick some ass, win some prizes, and drive the hell out of their junk. The Road Tour Express is...
Site of the Week: No One Rides For Free.com
Jan 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Site of the Week: No One Rides For Free.com
NoOneRidesForFree.com bills itself as “Boogie Vans and One Night Stands”. It is a blog that celebrates the free and wild culture culture of “vanning” in the 1970s. For decades...
Alan Johnson Develops Bad Ass Pro Mod Hemi Engine, Incredible Head Flow Numbers
Jan 28, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Alan Johnson Develops Bad Ass Pro Mod Hemi Engine, Incredible Head Flow Numbers
Most people know Alan Johnson as one of the greatest nitro drag racing crew chiefs of all time. Many however, do not know that Johnson is one of the leading developers and suppliers of top level drag...
Baldwin-Motion is Back: 2011 427ci and 454ci Camaros to Hit the Market
Jan 27, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Baldwin-Motion is Back: 2011 427ci and 454ci Camaros to Hit the Market
Every BangShifter worth his big block knows the names of Joel Rosen, and Baldwin-Motion. Rosen built and tuned the burliest, most well thought out super cars of the 1960s and early 1970s until he was...
AFCO introduces cool new products for 2011
Jan 27, 2011Chad ReynoldsComments Off on AFCO introduces cool new products for 2011
BangShift.com has spent the last couple days hanging out with the finest companies in the automotive aftermarket at SEMA’s Motorsports Parts Manufacturer’s Council and have been checking...
Crane Cams is back and bigger and better than ever before.
Jan 27, 2011Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Crane Cams is back and bigger and better than ever before.
After a dramatic 2009 that found all their assets for sale on the auction block, Crane Cams rose from the ashes like a Phoenix and spent 2010 dusting themselves off and getting back to work. The...
Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip
Jan 27, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on Wreckage Video: Two Cars Tangle Badly at the Top End of the Strip
This is a very violent wreck that illustrates some of the dangers that lurk at tracks which are not constructed to modern safety standards. When this pair of four second, eighth-mile door slammers...
eBay Find: A Hemi Powered 1971 Dodge Colt
Jan 27, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on eBay Find: A Hemi Powered 1971 Dodge Colt
One of the most infamous car and engine combinations in the history of drag racing was the deadly match of a Chrysler Hemi and the tiny Dodge Colt in the early 1970s. Prompted by the ass kicking laid...
New From DART: 427 Cubic Inches of Small Block Ford Muscle
Jan 26, 2011Chad ReynoldsComments Off on New From DART: 427 Cubic Inches of Small Block Ford Muscle
Dick Maskin and the rest of the Dart team are back at it with even more great SHP combos for both Ford and Chevy fans. With 427 cubic inches of small block power available for the Blue Oval and...
Racing Head Service: Leading the LS Revolution
Jan 26, 2011Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Racing Head Service: Leading the LS Revolution
When the Comp Performance Group brought back the Racing Head Service RHS brand, the aftermarket, and Car Junkies world wide, were excited to hear that a brand name associated with killer performance...
The Single Greatest Photo Ever: Vangina
Jan 26, 2011Brian LohnesComments Off on The Single Greatest Photo Ever: Vangina
We realize that this is completely random, but we simply had to post this photo. The picture turned up in our forum section when a discussion thread made a left hand turn into van-ville. The fact...












