For far too long we’ve featured historic cars, overpowered cars, cool cars, and stuff you want to see and learn about. That’s why we’re going to start featuring cars no one cares about, like this 2004 Chrysler Pacifica. Know what’s great about this grey lump? Not a damned thing. It weighs like six tons, has [...]

In a move that will probably cause stock in the Frito-Lay company to plummet, we’re happy to announce that Tapatio Doritos have joined BangShift as a sponsor and will provide Chad a lifetime supply of their tasty Tapatio flavored chips. Chad has proclaimed his love for these tasty treats on many BangShift live broadcasts and [...]

BangShift.com has learned of and acquired renderings of a new specialty Mustang to be offered by Ford Racing which has been deemed by company officials as the “Retro-Jet”. Featuring a stack injected version of the 5.0L Coyote engine, front mounted Moon fuel cell, solid front axle with leaf springs, no front brakes, fender well headers, [...]

Earlier this weekend we showed you the incredible video of Larry Dixon losing a rear tire, spinning a full 360, and hitting absolutely nothing during a run at an Australian drag racing event. Claytons News Service in Australia has released the transcript of an interview with Dixon shortly after the incident and it is an [...]

Freiburger and Finnegan are out and about on another Roadkill adventure and this one involves a hot rodded flatfender Jeep that is packing a Chevy small block, seats, and not a whole hell of alot else. The guys are cruising and as usual, they have a plot twist planned for the end of their adventure, [...]

Obviously this photo comes from somewhere in Asia, but that is really beside the point. It could come from the moon and we’d still glare at it for minutes on end because it is absolutely insane. There are times we bitch and complain about how stringent some of the traffic and auto equipment laws are [...]

Hearing about old cars and trucks getting crushed always causes us to grit our teeth, but knowing one is headed for certain destruction and having the chance to save it is a totally different deal. One member of the BangShift fleet, my 1968 Chevy C50 wrecker was one or two days away from sure death [...]

(Photo credit: Mike Carter) Today we have the sad duty to report to you that Art Malone, one of the great drag racing drivers of all time, a life long friend of Don Garlits, the first man to break 180-mph on a closed course, and a driver who competed in the USAC Champ Car series [...]

WE WON WE WON! CONGRATULATIONS TO RON CAPPS AND THE DRAG RACING COMMUNITY AT LARGE. TAKE THAT YOUTUBE STAR DUDE! It was a tough battle, with the results actually showing 50/50 on the ladder. That means it must have been down to tenths of a percent. Hell, Capps is used to thousands of seconds, tenths [...]

Here’s bunch of scans from one of my grandfather’s scrap books. In his younger days, Grandpa was a heck of a scrap-booker. He snipped new stories about trucks, trucking, and lots of old photos of crashes and wrecks. There’s some neat stuff in there!  When looking at how these cars and trucks took impact it [...]

Big Buicks represent some of the finest cars Detroit pushed out during the good ol’ days. Imagine our joy when we stumbled upon two of the lumbering giants, a decade apart in age but nearly equal in coolness, over the span of a couple of days. Which one do you want? The first one we [...]

That’s right kids, we still haven’t quit this weekly hour of fun and shenanigans known as PowerShift LIVE with Chad and Brian. We cover all the topics you want to hear about in the world of high performance cars, trucks, racing, horsepower, and motorsports celebrity. We usually start with a plan and then throw that [...]

We’ve been reporting all along that we believed Firebird Raceway in Arizona would not be closing up shop for good after the lease ran out for Charlie Allen this month. Bob Bondurant and his driving school have assumed a bigger role in running the road course, which was one big sign in the right direction, [...]

I have never, in my 33-years of living, been more excited about anything automotive related than I am at the knowledge that there will be a budget big rig road racing series coming to the USA in 2014. ChumpTruck, brought to you by the same people who administer the wildly popular ChumpCar road racing series [...]

Our quest for answers regarding a long-forgotten race series that featured massive big-rig trucks on asphalt and dirt ovals started with a thread on the Bangshift.com forum section. One of our members posted a bunch of photos from a big-rig dirt track race back in the 1980s. That triggered a synapse deep in our brain [...]

Thursday again, already?! You betcha and that means tonight at 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern we’ll be live with our latest installment of Powershift, the live weekly show starring BangShift’s Chad Reynolds and Brian Lohnes. We’ll cover all kinds of fun topics like stuff we’ve featured on the blog, updates on our projects cars, updates on Chad’s [...]