French Art: Jay Leno Rolls Out His 1972 Citroën SM For A Review
Sep 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
I first saw one of these rotting away in a woodline near Sequim, Washington. The shape, from the front to the back, was something I hadn’t seen before…the nose looked dramatic, the...
This Video From The 1994 Sunoco Racing Fuels Pro Mod Shootout At Atlanta Is Awesome – John Force, Al Tucci, More!
Sep 22, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on This Video From The 1994 Sunoco Racing Fuels Pro Mod Shootout At Atlanta Is Awesome – John Force, Al Tucci, More!
Here’s some great video for all those pro mod fans in the crowd. We’re taking you back to the 1994 Sunoco Racing Fuels Pro Mod Shootout at Atlanta Dragway where Al Tucci was calling the...
Do Not Try This At Home: The Skiing General Lee From Holley MoParty!
Sep 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
First thing’s first: breathe, it is only a 1969 Dodge Charger on the surface. Underneath, this is a Ford Crown Victoria, but regardless of what it actually is, what it actually does is worth...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Would You Ever Bring One You Sold Back?
Sep 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
One of the cars that visited “the yard” quite often was a car I genuinely begged for. I remember it clearly: 1979 Chevrolet Malibu two-door, primer gray with red gut, redneck lowered,...
On This Day: The Lindal Railway Incident, or How To Make A Locomotive Disappear Forever
Sep 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
“There’s a hole, there’s a hole…there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea…” It was one of my favorite cadences in the Army, about a hole that fit damn near...
Install Video: Check Out The Process Of Installing A Ridetech StreetGrip Suspension On A 2004-2008 F150 Truck
Sep 21, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Install Video: Check Out The Process Of Installing A Ridetech StreetGrip Suspension On A 2004-2008 F150 Truck
We’re definitely fans of the RideTech StreetGrip line of suspension systems. We have installed them here at BangShift we have driven cars with them installed and we have come away understanding...
Game On: Here’s Our BangShifty Review Of WRC Championship 9 For Xbox, Play Station, and PC – Worth The Dough?
Sep 21, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Game On: Here’s Our BangShifty Review Of WRC Championship 9 For Xbox, Play Station, and PC – Worth The Dough?
(By Tom Lohnes) – The kind folks at Kylotonn provided a review copy of WRC Championship 9, their biggest racing title and a game I was excited to try out. My excitement was not wrong, because...
A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed
Sep 21, 2020Brian Lohnes5
To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...
Pro Touring Vs Germany: A Killer 1966 Mustang Takes On A Porsche 911 Turbo S At The Streets Of Willow!
Sep 21, 2020Brian Lohnes2
Well this is a fun surprise! A couple years back, I was part of a show for Motor Trend called “Put Up or Shut Up”. It went for two seasons and the idea behind the show was simple. Race...
Nitro Time Machine: The Day Don Campanello Tasted Pro Stock Glory At The 1986 Gatornationals
Sep 21, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Nitro Time Machine: The Day Don Campanello Tasted Pro Stock Glory At The 1986 Gatornationals
Don Campanello was a 1980s pro stock racer from New Jersey who was a stalwart on the tour, especially for the eastern parts of it. He was not a guy who necessarily had the raw horsepower of someone...
Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury
Sep 21, 2020Brian Lohnes8
When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...
Money No Object: 1985 Crown Supercoach Tandem With Cummins 855 Big Cam
Sep 21, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
For the six years I spent attending school in the Pacific Northwest, I rode on a very different bus than I had ridden prior to. In Illinois, the school buses were Chevrolet and GMC 60-series...
Tiny Adventures: Going Overlanding In Hopped-Up Power Wheels
Sep 21, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Tiny Adventures: Going Overlanding In Hopped-Up Power Wheels
For the last couple of years, we’ve been showcasing the builds that the guys from Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have been putting out, especially the ones that involve a Power Wheels toy, a ton of...
Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light
Sep 21, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light
The luck that this year has brought certainly smells like a nugget of something, doesn’t it? I think that most of us can agree that the only “nugget” that 2020 has brought us is the...












