Apr 12, 2021Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos The idea of a sports sedan is something that has been present and accounted for in the modern sense of the American automotive market for about 40 years at this point. The BMW M3 broke the mold, the Taurus SHO brought it to …
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Horsepower On The Waves: This Film Showing The 1956 Gold Cup Hydroplane Race Is Awesome – Aircraft Engines Galore
Feb 03, 2021Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Boat racing has always been the realm of big money and when we say “always” we mean ALWAYS. Think about the days of Gar Wood hammering international competition in the 1920s and then the evolution from there to where we …
NHRA Insider Podcast: The Grudge Men Cometh – Joey Gladstone and JR Gray Talk NHRA, Grudge Racing, and More
Jan 26, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Drag News, 1320 Videos, BangShift 1320, BangShift News, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Joey Gladstone and JR Gray join Brian Lohnes on this episode of the NHRA Insider podcast. Both men have backgrounds in drag racing’s grudge scene and have worked their way to the worlds of NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle …
Bored This Winter? Buy This Never Fired Russian Liquid Propellant Rocket And Become The Hit Of The Neighborhood!
Jan 15, 2021Brian Lohnes1320 Online Find, Apex Online Find, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find It has been a while since we’ve seen a person selling a cool rocket engine on eBay. We’re guessing that being quarantined and stuck at home maybe forced the rocket owners to mess with their own stuff rather …
Flying Fords, Furious Noise: Here’s The 10 Best Ford Moments From Goodwood SpeedWeek 2020
Jan 07, 2021Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Ford’s history in motorsports is very well documented. From the earliest days of Henry taking on Mr. Winton and kicking his ass to guys like Barney Oldfield setting speed records on ice in the 999 to the incredible 1960s wen the …
The Toyota Man Cometh: This Review Of The 1993 Toyota T100 Was A Wildly Prescient Look Into The Future
Dec 30, 2020Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift XL, HISTORIC, MISC, Videos, XL Truck News, XL Videos 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 Memoriam: Eddie Van Halen
Oct 07, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News, BS Daily Tune Up This one stings. It’s not that one of the top-tier masters of not only the guitar but just about every single solid instrument he ever touched has finally left this earth after years of dealing with the worst of the diseases. Eddie had been suffering from …
When Mercury Was A Going Concern: This 1986 Laser Disc Preview Of Mercury’s Performance Cars Is Cool
Sep 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1320 Videos, Apex Video, BangShift 1320, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Back when the Mercury division of Ford was a happening thing, they were all about getting on the performance bandwagon like the rest of the world was. Of course they, like the divisions of GM were …
Clean Sweep: Basically Every Hustling Japanese Sports Car On The Market Is Giving Way To A New Version
(By Tom Lohnes) – Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of the old-school Japanese sports car. With the last Subaru BRZ, Nissan 370Z, and R35 Nissan GT-R rolling off the line yesterday, a turbocharged future waits for both the Z and the BRZ, and maybe a less brutal GT-R for the R36 generation. What …
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We live in weird, uncertain times. There’s some new wrinkle in the way we live our lives nearly every day. The good thing? Our cars are still there to keep us sane. You can socially distance yourself in your hot rod quite easily and with the windows down, the air rushing in, and the late …