Killer Vintage Drag Video: Original Footage of Classic Wheel-Standers In Action
May 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Killer Vintage Drag Video: Original Footage of Classic Wheel-Standers In Action
Confession time. We freaking love wheel-standers. Many hardcore drag race guys like to talk smack about jet cars and wheel-standers as being circus acts or somehow inferior to “real” race...
Five Women Will Try to Qualify for the 2010 Indy 500
May 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Five Women Will Try to Qualify for the 2010 Indy 500
There will be five women racing drivers among the scads of hopefuls, trying to fight their way into the 2010 Indy 500 starting grid. Danica Patrick is the clear headliner, she being the highest...
Killer Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Gives a Tour of the Four-Engine Showboat Dragster
May 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Killer Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Gives a Tour of the Four-Engine Showboat Dragster
Tommy Ivo’s four-engine Showboat dragster remains one of the most audacious and incredible pieces of machinery to ever assault the drag strip. At first glance it seems about as complex as a...
Craigslist Find: Goliath’s Long Lost Ford Brother
May 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Craigslist Find: Goliath’s Long Lost Ford Brother
As our in house Project Goliath gains popularity and infamy across the web, we’re getting more and more stuff sent to us regarding old medium and heavy duty trucks. Purchasing this totally...
Project Goliath Update: We Sort of Rebuilt the 292ci Six, It Runs
May 12, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Project Goliath Update: We Sort of Rebuilt the 292ci Six, It Runs
We know that the coil is mounted wrong, the spark plugs are only in hand tight, and the vacuum lines are routed like some sort of Chinese maze, but Goliath lives once again! Our big 1966 Chevy C50...
Epically Awesome Video: Firing Up a Twin Engine Nitro Harley In the Driveway
May 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Epically Awesome Video: Firing Up a Twin Engine Nitro Harley In the Driveway
We’ve found a new personal gearhead hero. Whoever this guy is, he rules. Anyone who can claim ownership of a twin-engine, Harley-powered nitro bike is already walking among titans, but to have...
Firebird Raceway is Resurfacing Its Track to the Tune of $200K
May 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Firebird Raceway is Resurfacing Its Track to the Tune of $200K
After suffering from a problem filled early season that culminated with an NHRA national event that one drag racing journalist dubbed, “The Disaster Nationals,” Firebird International...
Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo, Norm Weekly, and One Bad Ass Bucket
May 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo, Norm Weekly, and One Bad Ass Bucket
It’s a rare video that manages to tell the personal story of someone you’ve never met and keep you riveted to the screen. We caught wind of this piece of YouTube awesomeness through a tip...
Hot Selling Camaro Makes for Good Times at GM Oshawa, Ontario, Plant
May 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Hot Selling Camaro Makes for Good Times at GM Oshawa, Ontario, Plant
Employees at GM’s Oshawa, Ontario assembly plant have good reason to be happy. Because of the new Camaro and a couple of other strong selling models, they have the one thing that auto industry...
The Greatest $250.00 Craigslist Find Ever
May 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on The Greatest $250.00 Craigslist Find Ever
While it may seem that we’re all work and no play here at BangShift.com, we entertain ourselves just like every other greasy gearhead out there. We troll for deals all over the place and...
AutoTrader Classics Find: A 1990 Lamborghini LM002
May 11, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on AutoTrader Classics Find: A 1990 Lamborghini LM002
With only 301 examples produced over a seven year run, you may have never seen a Lamborghini LM002 SUV before. The good news is that once you lay eyes on one, even concentrated acid won’t wash...
Crazy Pulling Video: A Big Old GMC With the Front End Four Feet In the Air
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Crazy Pulling Video: A Big Old GMC With the Front End Four Feet In the Air
This is a pulling event we have to try! It takes place on asphalt and is completely basic in nature. There’s a sled with concrete blocks chained to a truck and the truck’s job is to drag...
RacingJunk Find: A ’56 Pontiac Chieftain Drag Car
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on RacingJunk Find: A ’56 Pontiac Chieftain Drag Car
After seeing all that cool stuff at the Hunnert Car Shootout, we decided to go looking for an awesome, old school racer for ourselves. We piled through all sorts of ’55 through ’57...
Monday Time Killer: The Mother Load of Info on 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC Trucks
May 10, 2010Brian LohnesComments Off on Monday Time Killer: The Mother Load of Info on 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC Trucks
We’re not going to say that 1960-1966 Chevy and GMC trucks are unloved, but we will say that they are under-loved when compared to trucks of the previous generation and the following 1967-1972...












