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Happy Thanksgiving From All Of Us At BangShift.Com!

With the year that we’ve had, the time where we get together with family and friends and break bread (and bird…cannot forget the turkey now) seems more special than it has in a long time. While many of you will be frying, roasting, or smoking a big bird, and watching football, or catching up with family members that you may not have seen in what feels like forever, we can’t forget that this day is all about: giving thanks. Brian, Chad and myself are incredibly thankful everything that we have been able to do this year and, on behalf of ourselves and our families, want to wish our BangShift family a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving. Whether it’s something big that happened in your life this year, or the little things like the smiles from your family, it’s all worth being thankful for. So join us in being thankful this year, as we share the things we are thankful for in 2020.

This year was tough, make no mistake. But regardless of how strange the days got, we were still able to do the job that we love so much: to bring you closer to the hobby that we all love. Sometimes, we were the only connection that you may have had. We were privileged to have been there in person and were honored to be the ones to provide you with something, anything, that would ease the burden of the stresses of this year. We got creative when we needed to, we leaned on others when we needed help, and we were supported by our family and friends throughout our endeavors this year. Whether the tire smoke was filtered through a face mask or we had to wave at you from across the track, know that nothing has changed from years passed…we still live and breathe everything about this world and we will still do everything within our power to bring you that much closer to the action. Whether it is Brian’s multiple irons in the fire that he handles with the skill he uses on the microphone, or it’s Chad putting his all into an announcing gig while trying to sneak in track time on the side, or it’s me splitting the difference between living on a scaffold behind the camera or under a car with wrench in hand, every second we get to do this as our career is another day we get to do what we love as a career. We’re lucky, we know this, and we do not take that for granted.

The amount of thanks that we have is monumental. A big thank you goes out to you, the readers, the livestream viewers, the Forum regulars, the Facebook folk, every last one of you who stop by and check out what we do. Thank you to our amazing contributors who assist us in every way possible. Thank you to the racers, the industry leaders, the builders, the backyard hot-rodders, those bastions of history who have forgotten more than we have learned. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

A special thank you goes out to our sponsors, who have been the reason why we are able to do what we do: American Powertrain, ARP, Borgeson, Chris Alston’s Chassisworks, FTI, Holley, Mahle Motorsport, Mark Williams Enterprises, McLeod, Meziere, Optima, Original Parts Group, Powermaster, QA1, Race Winning Brands, RideTech and TrickFlow. It is because of their support and their belief in what we do that we are able to bring you this content. Please remember them as we move on towards the Christmas season…as they support us, we need you to support them.

(Thanks to Dylan McCool for capturing this!)

From our tables to yours, Happy Thanksgiving from BangShift.com.

Special thank to Jerry Fuchs (Fooksie) for the cool Hot Rod Turkey graphic.

Money No Object: 1985 Crown Supercoach Tandem With Cummins 855 Big Cam

Sep 21, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift News

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 conventionals powered by 427 V8s, and a couple of International 4000-series units had started to appear just before I left. But in western Washington, there were three main buses that were used: late-model Thomas buses based on a Freightliner chassis; Gillig Transit Coach buses that were between twenty and forty years old; and a couple of Crown Supercoaches that were used sparingly as substitute buses or as field-trip units when nothing else was available. Most of the time I rode Gilligs, but every now and then a Crown would roll up and off the bat, you knew that you were riding in something wildly different. The Gilligs chuffed and puffed their way around, with the drivers rowing the gears for everything they could get. The Crowns, on the other hand, were loud and motivated, ready to roll at a moment’s notice.

It’s strange to get misty-eyed over a school bus, but I’ve often wondered if one of these old coaches would make for a great alternative to an RV. This isn’t helping. A Cummins Big Cam-equipped 1985 Supercoach, still wearing all of it’s appropriate school service paint? Yellow outside, minty green inside, with those blue-green seats that could endure just about all the hell a load of kids could dish out…I’m just picturing this as a converted “skoolie” and I’m sure that isn’t the right thing to do, as well preserved as this rolling Twinkie is, but can you blame me? Few school buses have style and presence anymore. This Supercoach has it in spades.

eBay Link: 1985 Crown Supercoach tandem-axle, Cummins 855 powered

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Drag Week 2020 Is Cancelled: But Will Something Else Pop? Stay Tuned Racers!

UPDATE: It’s on folks! Matt and June and the gang at Rocky Mountain Race Week have come to the rescue and are going to be holding Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 in September during the time that should have been Hot Rod Drag Week. With Drag Week being cancelled, Matt immediately started looking for tracks willing to open up and has spent the last few days getting everything set and ready to rock. Thanks to some great tracks, great work by good people, and plenty of good luck there is officially going to be a Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 (The Cancelled Drag Week Edition)!

Here is the preliminary information from Matt’s Facebook Post! It will be held September 13-17 and will have the following schedule.

Attention in the pits Race Week 2.0 is a go

Here is the schedule

TULSA 9/13 Tech from 7 to 3 pm track will be hot from 4 to 10pm

TOPEKA 9/14 track goes hot at 4pm to 10pm

NOBLE 9/15 track goes hot at 4pm until 10pm

GREATBEND 9/16 track goes hot at 4pm this to 10PM

TULSA 9/17 Track goes hot at 3Pm until 9PM award after that .

Spectators are welcome Adults 15 and kids under 12 free .

We will post info on sign up in the next few days we have a couple small details to work out so it goes Smooth we are going to cap it at 300 cars we will have extra staff to make sure that everything Goes smooth . Entry will 375 and there will be no refunds on entry we use your Money to buy the shirts you are provided pay for the tracks, stickers trophies and operation expenses . Almost all that has to be payed for in advance so we are just being transparent about the fact there is no Refunds .

I am super excited that we can make this happen we have to keep the sport alive and just in general keep spirits high in a time like this and I am happy to be able to offer a small part of that so get things in order and let’s go play I hope everyone is ready to knock it out if the park we will be back in touch very soon with the rest if the details .

If you would like to be a sponsor please get ahold of June or I we have all but two classes that need to have class sponsor . If you were a sponsor for the first event we will keep you on the shirts for this event thanks for your support . Matt and June.

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Yep, the sad news that Drag Week 2020 was cancelled happened a few days ago, and it makes us sad but is not surprising. With one of the tracks closing for the year weeks ago, and at least one other track wanting to get out of holding the event, there wasn’t much hope on our end that this thing was actually going to happen. But thinking it would be cancelled and it actually getting cancelled are two different things and so it sucks for everyone that counts on this event each and every year. In this video you’ll see Alex and Dennis Taylor talking about the event, the cancellation, and hinting at something else that is maybe possibly kinda in the works. Trust me, that isn’t a click bait routing any more than the video title is. There is something in the works to try and salvage the time off and everything else for Drag Week Racers. So don’t cancel the vacation plans yet. The route won’t be the same, but the time frame would be, so keep those dates open!

I wish we could give you all the details and info right now, but things are still in the works and still not confirmed. But know that there is a promoter out there working to make this a reality for everyone.

Until we have 100% confirmation we won’t say anything more. But rest assured that when it is 100% we will tell the world.

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How It’s Made Video: Follow A Cam From Core Selection To Finish Product At The COMP Cams Factory!

This is an awesome video that shows us some amazing stuff about one of the aftermarket industry’s truly important names. Yes, we are going inside the COMP Cams factory in Tennessee to see how a camshaft is made from the selection of the core to the machining and even to the micro finishing processes that COMP offers on their products as well. Things have come a long way since guys like Ed Iskendarian started grinding their own camshafts far more than a half century ago.

From the materials to the processes, accuracy, and quality, this is as good as it gets in the industry. COMP has been making camshafts for street guys, NASCAR teams, NHRA drag racing teams, sports car teams, open wheel racing competitors, monster truck racers, and anything else you can think of for longer than many of you reading this have been alive. Along the way they have taken every piece of acquired knowledge and plowed it back into their company to make products better. They continue to do that today.

The fascinating thing about this process to us is that it’s still very human. It is not just some massive automative factory with no people in it. There’s human talent at every step of this trip and we think you’ll appreciate that as well. The mix of cutting edge equipment and practices with the skilled hands of true machinists is a really fun intersection to watch.

Enjoy this amazing look behind the scenes at COMP Cams and the truly cool birth of a camshaft!

Press play to see this awesome video that shows the process of making a cam at COMP –

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Old Man Cruiser: This 1972 Impala Is The Perfect Example Of What Old People Bought When Nixon Was President

May 19, 2020Brian LohnesApex Video, BangShift APEX, BangShift News, eBay Find

Old people in massive, slow cars. That was a trope used in all forms and facets of advertising and comedy from the 1950s right up until not that long ago. As the size of cars continues to shrink, this once common sight is less and less or a normal thing to see. That being said, it WAS a thing and this car is proof. This 1972 Impala is the perfect example of what old people bought when Richard Nixon was the president. The car is incredibly well preserved and as the leasing says, it was operated by elderly people.

This 1972 Impala is pretty light on options but it does have AC and a six-way power bench seat. The car is powered by a 2bbl topped 350 engine and backed by a Powerglide. This is the lowest horsepower and lowest performing mechanical setup that you could get in this car circa 1972. It reeks of an old guy haggling on price and options. You can almost hear him saying, “Nahh, nahhh, I don’t need all that…” when it comes to stuff like, ohhh, A THREE SPEED TRANSMISSION.

The car is astonishingly persevered. It has 69,000 original miles on it, little if no rust, the interior looks like no one has ever sat in it before, and we just cannot believe how clean it is. The green paint with the green roof and the green interior is awful but it’s awfully cool because of the 1970s flavor of the whole program.

We’d not have the hear to jack with this car if we bought it. We’d be the people doing 10-under the speed limit with a line of traffic a mile behind us and loving every mile we traveled.