Category Archive: BangShift XL, eBay Find, XL Online Find
The Swiss Army Knife Of Custom Machines Is Up For Auction – The 2009 Dobbertin HydroCar Can Be Yours!
Rick Dobbertin’s 1965 Chevy II and 1985 Pontiac J-2000 are well-known and appreciated within the automotive community for what they were at the time: builds that were further advanced than...
Rough Start: Can You Scare Yourself With A Budget Find? This 1973 Omega Might Do The Trick!
Some concessions have to be made when you are playing with a small budget. You aren’t getting a top-tier model name. You aren’t getting a supercharged big-block, you aren’t getting...
The 48-Hour Camaro Build Continues! Check Out The Progress We Made Yesterday
The 48-Hour 2nd Gen Camaro is coming along nicely! We’re having a lot of fun, while working hard, to put together one hell of a cool 1971 Camaro that Bret Voelkel from Ridetech is going to...
MAHLE Motorsport Introduces PowerPak Piston Kits for Ford Big Block Super Cobra Jet, Kaase P-51 and Air Flow Research 14º Cylinder Heads
Pistons, we love them around here. Pistons are at the root of all things BangShifty, right? MAHLE Motorsports knows this and they continue to develop new, high quality products to meet the needs of...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Blowers Through Hoods Make A Comeback?
Every car magazine that wasn’t Road and Track or Automobile had them on the cover: a hunkered down piece of wicked creation that had a massive blower sticking through the hood. It was the...
Project Angry Grandpa: Putting Old Skills To New Uses (Or, How To Love Fixing Wiring Connectors)
The problems for the Angry Grandpa Chrysler started on the last day of the PRI show. As Lohnes and I were getting our cars warmed up in the morning before heading over to the convention center, two...
Bad News: Raceway Park Will Cease Drag Racing Operations – The End Of Englishtown Appears To Be Nigh
BangShift.com has learned that Raceway Park will cease racing operations in 2018. This is unhappy news to say the least. At this point our understanding is that there will not be a 2018 drag racing...
Here Is Your Tuesday Afternoon Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2018 Photo Update
It’s Tuesday and the sun is shining bright in Scottsdale Arizona at the Barrett-Jackson auction which means both the weather and the hot rods are hot here in Arizona. We’ve been posting...
Edelbrock E-Street 2 EFI Just Became More Affordable – Get A System For Less Than 900 Bucks!
The Edelbrock E-Street 2 EFI system has been on the market for a while now and it has become popular among hot rodders who have ditched their carbs for the more high tech approach of electronic fuel...
Classic YouTube: Big Barge Ice Racing On Garfield Lake In Minnesota!
Winter weather is going to happen no matter how much you love or hate the season. The best thing you can do is to bundle up and go enjoy it, have some fun, and do anything that isn’t just...
More Barrett-Jackson Auction Photos Are Right Here. Scottsdale Auction Week Continues.
We shared our first two galleries of photos from Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale yesterday, and have two more to share right now. We’ll try to get even more up this afternoon just so you can get...
Big Wheels, Big Power, Big Body: A Look Back At The “Kut Da Check” Chevrolet Caprice
Building a monster out of a 1977-90 Chevrolet Caprice isn’t anything new. It seems like it, but it isn’t. Lohnes has had Buford T. Justice for six years now, and those in the know have...
Rough Start: A Clean-Bodied Malibu Is Getting Hard To Come By…
If there is one high point of vehicles made at the turn of the 1980s, it was that manufacturers were forced to learn how to package together light and lean versions of vehicles in an effort to make...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Can You Tolerate The Idea Of A Ford “Mach 1” Performance EV SUV?
One of the major announcements from Ford, aside from the new Bullitt Mustang (which we totally approve of), the unveiling of the “lost” original GT390 Mustang used in the actual movie,...