With all the hot and heavy action ready to get fired up in Wilmington again in a couple weeks and Speed Week looming on the horizon, we got to mentally bench racing with ourselves and started dreaming about the LSR rig we would build. There’s the side of us that would want to build something [...]

(Words and Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Editor’s Note: Bryan McTaggart is an OG BangShifter and he filed this report of cruising his hemi powered 300C from Arizona to his wife’s place in Kentucky. Bryan is a bonafide Mopar loon and instead of just taking the fast way to Kentucky, he took some scenic roads [...]

With the last minute request to broadcast LIVE from the ADRL Race in Cordova this weekend, and Brian’s travel to Nashville, he and I will both be on planes or in airports during the normal PowerShift LIVE broadcast time. So…we are going to change it to Friday! That way you guys can drink more heavily [...]

(Photo – Steve Magnante collection) – We’re rat bastards for doing this but we have to let you know what’s coming. Firstly, Steve Magnante is our newest BangShift contributor. Secondly, his first contribution is a three part epic series telling every inch of detail on the legendary Bad Seed project car from Hot Rod Magazine. [...]

(Photos – Dave Sanders Collection) – Stock car racing’s roots are well known. From the days of the moonshiners to the entrance of Big Bill France and his efforts to organize all of these guys into a group that would ultimately set the foundation for America’s most popular and wealthy racing series, NASCAR’s story is [...]

(Photos from Al Benker collection) – Today, we win the internet. Seriously. You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Cal Span welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al Benker. A couple of weeks ago we told you about the Hemi engines [...]

The Power Tour news is coming in hot and heavy as of late. MSD is the latest to announce that they’ll be on the tour and that they have come up with a couple of cool promotions to award Hot Rod Power Tour participants for using MSD products and supporting their company. Firstly the crew [...]

The people at Painless Performance dropped some cool knowledge on us the other day and we wanted to share it with you. Those guys and girls are always coming up with interesting and fun ways to be involved in the biggest events the hobby has and this year they are kicking it up 10 notches [...]

Tomorrow you’ll read about my exploits at the SCCA autocross with project Buford T Justice. I was the biggest, ugliest, most out of place looking car at the event but I did pretty well for my first time out and it didn’t take but a run or two for the big car to raise the [...]

Without moms, there would be no hot rodding, plain and simple. All of us here at BangShift would like to wish moms in all corners of the globe a happy Mother’s Day today and express our gratitude to all of the mothers who have supported the efforts of gearheads in their respective families. From packing [...]

It’s springtime, and that means the baddest group of Pro Mods, Outlaw 10.5s, and more are on their way to Tulsa Raceway Park for the 2013 $50k Throw Down in T-Town which starts Friday at 5:30PM Central Time. That’s 3:30 on the west coast and 6:30 on the east. BangShift.com will have exclusive LIVE Streaming [...]

John Hunkins, the editor of Popular Hot Rodding sent us a note the other day, letting us know that the application period for the Popular Hot Rodding Muscle Car of The Year competition is open and rolling along. When we saw the note we immediately thought that we should pass it on because it would be [...]

Pal O’ BangShift John Coyle tipped us off about the existence of a truly amazing project that has been documented on the forums over at LS1Tech. There’s a couple of guys who are actually building a V12 LS engine and they are doing it in such a was to learn how to make them to [...]

There’s nothing quite like a good wacky news story on a Friday and we have to thank Timmins, Canada city employee Richard Page for providing the fodder. Richard, who had been in the employ of the city for more than two decades as a as equipment operator among other things, was stopped while speeding down [...]

I gave the guy one simple job to do on vacation, well two actually. Job numero uno was to keep himself from getting thrown into a Mexican prison. Job number two was to smuggle a massive quantity of high grade narcotics back into the country. Not only did he fail on the first job, but [...]

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – While Smokey Yunick often gets recognized most for the work he did with General Motors products, it is important to remember his time spent wrenching on and improving race cars for both Hudson and Ford. In fact, one of Smokey’s greatest “near misses” came at Talladega in 1969 with a [...]