Restoring Your 1970s Cadillac Is Easier Because Of OPGI: Check Out These Tail Light Reflectors
May 13, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Cadillacs of the 1970s are become more and more the hot ticket these ays. We have seen restorations and even some of them being hot rodded in classy ways of late and means one thing, values are going...
Can’t Keep A Good Mouse Down: Watch This Twin Dominator Equipped Small Block Make 970+ Horsepower!
May 13, 2020Brian Lohnes2
We love the fact that the small block Chevy and engine builders keep reminding us that there’s still decades of fight left in the little engine that was displaced from its lofty perch by the...
Thunderbolt: The Story Of George Eyston And The Twin-Engined LSR Beast
May 13, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Eight wheels, weight measured in tons, twenty-four different cylinders from two Rolls-Royce R-type V-12 normally reserved for racing aircraft, and over 4,600 horsepower on tap sounds like the start...
Still Crazy After All These Years: Here’s How The GMC Cyclone Stacks Up To Some Modern Performance Cars and Trucks
May 13, 2020Brian Lohnes9
(By Tom Lohnes) – Even almost 30 years later, the GMC Syclone is a force to be reckoned with. With its Turbocharged V6 engine and mind-boggling 4.3 second 0-60 time, the Syclone is still...
High On History And Maybe A Bit Of Leather Conditioner: 1982 Zimmer Golden Spirit
May 13, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
I’m known to take a jab at former Ford and Chrysler icon Lee Iacocca and his predictable, retro-leaning tastes in design. The man had a pattern of style that dated back to the Continental Mark...
Video: Tow Trucks Are For Wussies In Whichever Foreign Country This Video Was Filmed
May 13, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: Tow Trucks Are For Wussies In Whichever Foreign Country This Video Was Filmed
When you watch this video clip, I assume that your reaction will be roughly the same as mine. First, you’ll have an expectation of seeing something totally off the wall happen. Next,...
From The Top: Driving A Low-Mile 1953 Corvette And Finding The Light Past “Corvette”
May 13, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on From The Top: Driving A Low-Mile 1953 Corvette And Finding The Light Past “Corvette”
When the rumor became official, that the eighth generation of America’s sports car would become a mid-engined, rear-drive machine that looked an awful lot like a pasta rocket, the detractors...
Smart Money: BangShift Road Test (With Video!) Of The 2020 Nissan Sentra SV – A New Look, A New Car, A Good Buy?
May 13, 2020Brian Lohnes4
Building a really good small car is a hard, hard thing. In fact, it’s a thing so hard that American car companies have basically decided that they no longer even want to try. These are cars...
Penmanship: Watch Chip Foose Sketch Up A Modified, Hot Rodded First Generation Bronco
May 12, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Penmanship: Watch Chip Foose Sketch Up A Modified, Hot Rodded First Generation Bronco
There’s few more things more satisfying in life than watching a creative person apply their talents to make something come to life. From their brain through their hands and onto whatever medium...
1.16: The Forgotten Disaster – How America’s Worst Maritime Nightmare Happened In 1865 And Who It Happened To
May 12, 2020Brian Lohnes2
The sinking of the SS Sultana in 1865 to this day stands as the greatest maritime disaster in the history of the United States. More people died in the middle of the Mississippi river on an April...
Tales Taller Than The Intake Manifold? Is This Monza Making the Advertised 600hp With This Tunnel Rammed Small Block?
May 12, 2020Brian Lohnes6
You know that we’re definitely on Team Small Block Monza around here. Between the cars that Chad and McTag find and ones like this baby that our main Craigslist savant Rocco did, there’s...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Well Have You Cleaned Up On A Junkyard Deal?
May 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart7
Yesterday I spent the better part of the day cleaning out my shop. There’s a lot of junk that needed to be removed, a lot of material laying around from cutting up the flooring we put into my...
Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!
May 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Watch The “Swamp Thing” Chevy Do What It Does Best – Work In The Mud And The Muck!
There’s a mindset that hard work requires you to get down and dirty. Grease under your fingernails, mud on your boots, dirt on your face, and sweat turning all of that into some kind of funky...
Fear No Fording Situation: Check Out This Neat Jeep Delta Force Snorkel Intake System
May 12, 2020Brian Lohnes2
If you are someone who regularly does hardcore off-roading with your Jeep or someone who sure wants to look like it, Flowmaster has released the air intake for you. This Jeep Delta Forse snorkel...












