Flight At The Museum: Get A Mini-Drone Perspective Of The Mercedes-Benz Museum In Stuttgart!
May 23, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Flight At The Museum: Get A Mini-Drone Perspective Of The Mercedes-Benz Museum In Stuttgart!
Feel like traveling to Germany anytime soon to check out the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart anytime soon? Well…we don’t have to tell you how likely that is, do we?Yeah, we know, things...
Rough Start: Go For A Stretch With This 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood!
May 23, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Thanks to COVID-19, a lot of businesses are packing it in due to a sudden, sharp lack of demand in services. Don’t believe me? Hertz has gone bankrupt. Yeah, that’s right, the land of...
Your Excuse To Go Home And Drink: LS Fest West Has Been Cancelled
May 23, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Yeah, we know that events are finally starting to happen, places are finally starting to open up, and that it appears that a corner might have been turned in the royal cluster-…well, you know...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your Last Impulse Purchase For The Hobby?
May 23, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
Shortly after I woke up yesterday, I was texting with Luke from Thunderhead 289 over his latest acquisition, a big-bumper Ford Maverick four-door that someone went straight to the low-buck nuclear...
Morning Symphony: Renault Laguna BTCC Cars In Action
May 23, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: Renault Laguna BTCC Cars In Action
During my travels through Ireland and Scotland , the Renault Laguna had to be the one car that caught my eye. Don’t use that as a judging point, now…what little hands-on knowledge I have...
Pride Of Kenosha: This 1974 AMC Matador Is An Original Paint Survivor That Might Be A Little Boring, But It Sure Is Nice!
May 22, 2020Brian Lohnes4
When it comes to survivor cars, we kind of love them all. We just don’t love them all equally. There’s an undeniably cool element in the “survivor” tag, right? The fact that...
Independence Chevelle: Getting Started On Something Resembling Safety For The Build!
May 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Okay…we’ve established that the 1972 Chevrolet Malibu that Vice Grip Garage has started calling “Independence” was sketchy…no, it was “Holy f*ck, man, are you...
Listen Up: The Full Story of Operation Highball, A Land Clearing Operation That Mowed Down Forests Like Wheat Fields
May 22, 2020Brian Lohnes2
For some of you, this may be old news. You perhaps read the feature I wrote on an ingenious land clearing method developed by two California contractors while working on a dam project in Montana...
Morning Symphony: Rockcrawling Around Calico, California’s Odessa Duran Loop Trail
May 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Few phrases make an Army soldier cringe harder than “We’re going to NTC”. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California is infamous among the ranks for several things: zero...
Historic Footage: 1979 Talladega 500, With Lee Petty In The Booth!
May 22, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Historic Footage: 1979 Talladega 500, With Lee Petty In The Booth!
If you have never experienced a Southern summer day, you won’t be able to quite grasp the important aspect of the 1979 Talladega 500, so let’s explain that real quick. The air is hot...
The Rookie: A Conversation With Nitro Funny Car Racer Alex Miladinovich – How To Race A Funny Car On A Regular Guy Budget
May 22, 2020Brian Lohnes3
There are always feel good stories in drag racing and most of them center around people who race with a lot of heart and soul. At the 2020 NHRA Winternationals, the drag racing world got to meet Alex...
Classic YouTube: Thrashing Angry Grandpa During A Michelin Track-X Day At NCM Motorsports Park
May 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Since this spring has been reduced to “get to work on the projects since there’s nothing else to do”, I’ve taken a bit of a critical eye of the fleet at BangShift Mid-West....
MAHLE Motorsport Introduces Forged PowerPak Piston Kit for LT-based Direct Injected EcoTec3 5.3L Engine
May 22, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on MAHLE Motorsport Introduces Forged PowerPak Piston Kit for LT-based Direct Injected EcoTec3 5.3L Engine
When the transition from the LS to the LT family of GM engines was taking place, some people freaked out. There was direct injection and subtle design changes that hot rodders got nervous about....
Rough Start: Go Big With A 1974 Dodge D-500 And Give The Old Farm Truck A Fair Shake
May 22, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
The Mopar itch is never too far from this soul, it seems. I might be up to the elbows in Ford products right now but there’s still a part of me that is dying inside for an older Chrysler ride...












