This 1969 Valiant Pacer Has A 380ci Stroker 340 with a Single Turbo And It Runs 9s At 8psi In Australia (W/Video)
Jan 01, 2021Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1969 Valiant Pacer Has A 380ci Stroker 340 with a Single Turbo And It Runs 9s At 8psi In Australia (W/Video)
Oh, we forgot to mention that it is a four door as well! How ’bout dem apples?! The 1969 Valaint Pacer looks a lot like a 1969 Dart but with a slightly different front end. It looks like this...
Cool Video: This Computer Recreation Of The Red Baron’s Last Dogfight Is A Neat Look Into Old School Military Aviation
Jan 01, 2021Brian Lohnes1
Being that it is Saturday we thought it was OK to stretch the bounds of our normal wide scope a little and share with you this video that is a computer recreation of Manfred von Richthofen, better...
Happy New Year From Your Friends At BangShift.com!
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
Usually, we run our New Year piece on January 1st, but I think I speak for everybody in the room when I say that this year cannot be over soon enough. Look, let’s be very honest here for a...
Pocket Rocket: This Fiat 500 Has A V8 Made Of Two Hayabusa Engines, Fender Flares For Days, and We Want It!
Dec 31, 2020Brian Lohnes1
There’s a certain awesomeness that we continue to discover and rediscover about the European hillclimb scene. The fact that it’s all a giant kind of run-whatcha-brung scene is so...
Horsepower Costs Money: Wrangler 392 Pricing Is Coming In Hot – Have $70,000+ For A Jeep?
Dec 31, 2020Brian Lohnes2
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ram 1500 TRX might be the craziest truck ever made, pushing 700 horsepower, doing the sprint from 0-60 miles per hour in 3.7 seconds, and being the single best factory...
Cool Old Video: Did You Know That GMC Worked With Lotus On Active Suspension For Trucks In The Late 1980s?
Dec 31, 2020Brian Lohnes1
This is one of those, “wait…what?” moments for us. Apparently in the late 1980s General Motors and Lotus were working together on active suspension systems and the plan was...
Out Of Gas At 41,000ft: The Unbelievable Story Of The Gimli Glider – Bad Math and Incredible Pilots End In A Miracle
Dec 31, 2020Brian Lohnes2
On July 23, 1983 a Canada Air 767 with 61 passengers and eight crew aboard ran out of fuel while flying over a remote area of Ontario, Canada at 41,000ft. The pilot and co-pilot were able to take the...
Unhinged Top 11: McTaggart’s 2020 Year In Review
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
I think that the best way I can summarize what 2020 means to me, in one simple sentence, is this: “Somehow, I managed to not start drinking again.” Holy hell, who pissed off what god?...
Knowledge Is Power: Check Out The ARP Product Guides Guides For LS/LT, Coyote, and Gen III Hemi Engines Here!
Dec 31, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Knowledge Is Power: Check Out The ARP Product Guides Guides For LS/LT, Coyote, and Gen III Hemi Engines Here!
In today’s world of engine building you have no excuse for using substandard fasteners. ARP, the industry leader in high performance bolts and fasteners literally makes it so easy to get the...
Best of 2020: Getting Up-Close With The Period-Correct Pro Stock Dodge Challenger
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart8
What can I say…everything fell into place just right for this photo shoot to happen. After Kevin from Junkyard Digs tipped me off to a Marketplace ad for a 1971 Dodge Challenger that looked...
Best of 2020: This Swapped Honda Insight Dropped Jaws At Rocky Mountain Race Week!
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
In one lane, a red Shelby GT500. One of the first “new” Shelby Mustangs, the S197 hot rod was 500 horsepower of red-blooded Blue Oval that straight ripped. Forget all the Cars and Coffee...
Best of 2020: Fixing A Dump Truck’s Broken Rear Axle In Pakistan
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart23
If there was one really big automotive take-away from my time spent in Iraq, it was that if you had a medium-duty truck of just about any type, you had the ability to work. Flatbed, dump, stakebed,...
Best of 2020: This Kid Drives A Truck And Runs The Gears Better Than You
Dec 31, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
When I was nine years old, I thought I was leaps and bounds over everybody else by being able to drive a car. Get in, start it, move it around without hitting anything, even drive it around a little...
The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future
Dec 30, 2020Brian Lohnes2
It was monumental news when Toyota said that it was going to step up its truck game in the early 1990s with the addition of the T100 model. This was going to be a small-ish truck that was kind of in...












