Former Nitro Funny Car Standout Kenney Goodell Passes
Apr 23, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Former Nitro Funny Car Standout Kenney Goodell Passes
Kenney Goodell, one of the hardest charging Northwest Funny Car racers of the late 1960s and 1970s, passed away on Tuesday following complications related to a heart attack he suffered a week before....
Coolest Video Ever: A German Dude Runs a 1970 Challenger At Full Tilt on the Autobahn
Apr 23, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Coolest Video Ever: A German Dude Runs a 1970 Challenger At Full Tilt on the Autobahn
Holy friggin’ awesome. This video ranks in the top three of the coolest we’ve ever spied on YouTube. It’s in-car footage of a guy taking his very healthy 1970 Dodge Challenger out...
Event Coverage: Walneck’s Motorcycle Swap Woodstock, Illinois
Apr 23, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Event Coverage: Walneck’s Motorcycle Swap Woodstock, Illinois
The newest member of the BangShift.com photo militia, Greg Rourke, recently attended the Walneck’s Motorcycle Swap Meet held in Woodstock, Illinois, and sent us back a photo dispatch from the...
Craigslist Find: A Homegrown 1976 Ford Monster Mudder Truck
Apr 23, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Craigslist Find: A Homegrown 1976 Ford Monster Mudder Truck
Massive homebuilt trucks have a strange appeal to us. Take this giant ass 1976 Ford that was constructed by someone in the Omaha, Nebraska, area. It has half a mile of lift, a body that appears to...
AutoTrader Classics Find: A Neato 1962 Corvette Vintage Road Racer
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on AutoTrader Classics Find: A Neato 1962 Corvette Vintage Road Racer
We were recently chatting with a buddy about Corvettes. The topic of conversation gravitated to the classic American sports car and which variation of it we’d want to own. That one came in like...
Vintage Muscle Car Road Test Video: A 1971 Olds 442 W30 ‘Vert Gets Thrashed
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Vintage Muscle Car Road Test Video: A 1971 Olds 442 W30 ‘Vert Gets Thrashed
With a total production of about 30 cars, it’s rare to lay eyes on a real 1971 Olds 442 W30 convertible, so seeing one of these cars get thrashed on a road course, spun out, and thrown through...
Pay Up Sucka: GM Repays US and Canadian Loans, Optimistic That Tax Payers Will Be Fully Repaid
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Pay Up Sucka: GM Repays US and Canadian Loans, Optimistic That Tax Payers Will Be Fully Repaid
Ed Whitacre was working the media channels hard core yesterday, announcing that GM had paid Canada and the US back their 8-billion in loans and then jetting (remember when that was a bad thing?) to...
Carnage Video: Violent Sprint Car and Midget Wrecks
Apr 22, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Carnage Video: Violent Sprint Car and Midget Wrecks
It was bought to our attention that Sprint Car and Midget racing season was cranking up and this video was tipped off to us as a way to mark that. You may think it odd to mark the start of the season...
Old Stock Car Goodness: The Historic Grand National Stock Car Association
Apr 22, 2010Brian Lohnes1
We find old cars to be exceptionally bad ass. There are few things neater in our nostalgia lovin’ hearts than the big iron that raced on road courses and ovals during decades past. We’ve...
BREAKING NEWS: Tasca Ford’s 2010 Cobra Jet Mustang Runs 8.97/153mph!
Apr 21, 2010Brian Lohnes4
Carl Tasca, wheeling 2010 Cobra Jet #27, made the first run in the eight-second zone for the limited edition factory drag cars today at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire. As best we know...
Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Just Because Video: A Tuff Truck Gets Huge Air on a Jump
Tuff Truck races are normally a good time. The competitions are basically an off-road style obstacle course complete with jumps, mud, and other impedances. The trucks are all home-built creations and...
Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Project Goliath Update: Our Perfect Plan Goes to Hell
It was all going to be so perfect. We were going to re-ring one cylinder in Goliath’s 292ci straight six and then it would be off to the shop to have the rotted cab floors repaired. That pipe...
NASCAR Track Operator Calls Start and Park Drivers Thieves
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on NASCAR Track Operator Calls Start and Park Drivers Thieves
The president of Texas Motor Speedway accused start-and-park NASCAR teams of “stealing money” and said that NASCAR needs to find ways to stop the practice. Eddie Gossage, the guy in...
Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989
Apr 21, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Historic Doorslammer Footage: The Cars That Created Pro Mod Circa 1989
After seeing the photos of Ellis Vial putting his killer Pro Mod up on two wheels, we went hunting for some cool video showing the early days of the class. We did even better than that, we found some...












