Sport Sedan 90s Style: This Motorweek Review Of The 1995 Mercedes-Benz C36 AMG Is A Neat Slice Of History

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 …

Making Formed Carbon Fiber Parts At Home! This Is Super Cool And We Want To Do It!

Mar 21, 2021Chad ReynoldsOTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos We’ve featured Carbon Fiber fabrication videos from Street Bandito before, but this one is cooler yet. The process for building this small part can totally be replicated for something bigger, and other than the materials there are no special tools you can’t acquire pretty easily. This part …

Finnegan Built A Paint Booth In His Driveway And Painted His C10! I’M SO JEALOUS!!!

Mar 07, 2021Chad ReynoldsFUNNY STUFF, TECH, Videos I’ve been wanting to build my own paint booth and paint a car for years, and I have a car that is in serious need of a color change and some fresh paint so when I saw this latest video from Finnegan I was both jealous and inspired. …

Legendary Drag Racer, Herb McCandless, Shows Off his Gen III Hemi Powered 1961 Chrysler 300

Feb 25, 2021Chad Reynolds1320 Videos, Car Features, CAR FEATURES, MOPAR, Videos Herb McCandless is a bad ass. He was around for the start of Pro Stock, has won the US Nationals, raced and won with Sox and Martin, and he’s had an illustrious career as an incredibly talented and well respected engine builder. He’s a …

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 …

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 …

Stocking Stuffer: The Absolutely Epic Jason Plato/Matt Neal Interview Inside Of Renault Williams

Dec 27, 2020Bryan McTaggartFUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos For a kid with a strong racing fascination in the mid-to-late 1990s, you essentially had two outlets if you wanted to see good action on television: TNN and Speedvision. (I’m sure ESPN showed something in between other sports, but I couldn’t be bothered.) TNN was where you went …

Halfway To China: This Louisiana Bounty Mud Hole Just Swallows Up The Trucks!

Dec 14, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, RACING & ACTION, Videos, XL Videos “I can make that, no problem.” Second only to, “Watch this…”, that phrase has seen more after-incident action than I can bear to remember. I don’t know what, exactly, it is about deep mud that incites someone with a lifted truck to go prove …