The Best Of World Rally Championship 2016 – These Drivers Are Completely Mental
World Rally Championship competition was as hot and heavy in 2016 as it has ever been. While Ford is the only name that fans of domestic cars would likely recognize in the series, that does not...
Aerospace Components Pro Eliminator and Pro Terminator Shifters – Nail The Gears With Style And Precision Quality
The world of sportsman drag racing is now one of surgical precision. Cars that are so refined and so well built that they can repeat run after run within a couple hundredths of a second or less. Know...
Late-Model Restomod: A 1989 GMC Jimmy With A Vortec 4.2 Inline-Six!
As much as modern engines have improved in the last twenty years, it is kind of surprising that we aren’t seeing more of what we are about to show you: in this case, forum member Tardis454...
Best of 2016: Vintage 1970 Video From The Merrill Ice Drags Is Great!
We talk a lot about the Merrill Ice Drags which has been a Wisconsin institution since 1965 and that’s because they still personify the spirit of drag racing in its purest form. Maybe it sounds...
Best of 2016: Incredible Photos Of The Astro Spiral Jump During Testing With Video!
(Photos from Al Benker collection) – You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Calspan welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al...
Hot Rod Hullabaloo 2016: Vintage Race Cars and Killer Stuff You’ll Love
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Last collection of photos from the 2016 Hullabaloo. This isn’t a group of ‘the rest’ as sometimes is the case. In here we’ve got some serious...
This 1976 Ford (With a 1979 Nose Clip) Has Big Block Power, A Clutch Pedal, And Plenty Of Altitude
I have long shared my love of late 1960s through 1970s Ford trucks. It has to be a childhood thing as that’s where I first got hooked on these suckers, riding in the back of my dad’s king...
Happy New Year 2017!!! Here’s To All Of You, From All Of Us At BangShift.com!
(Photos by David Whealon, Charles Wickam, and Joe Grippo) – Happy New Year! It’s official, 2017 is here. We just pulled the chutes on 2016 and now it’s time to pull into the water...
Great Video: Watch Gas Monkey’s Aaron Kaufman Hammer On His 1963 Falcon In Tick Tock
(Now that Aaron Kaufman has left Gas Monkey Garage we thought it would be a good time to show you Tick Tock again. Who knows, making this video may have been the moment when Kaufman decided to...
Deceptive Nostalgia: We Dissect A Modern B/Nostalgia Dragster To See How Advanced It Really Is
The idea of “nostalgia” anything in drag racing other than Don Garlits making burnouts in Swamp Rat 1 is kind of a joke. Nostalgia funny cars? Look at some photos from the late 1960s or...
Best of 2016: Buddies Go Snow Wheelin’ After A Huge Blizzard In The Late 1970s – Vintage Truck Coolness
Talk to people on the eastern seaboard about the Blizzard of ’78 and they will talk about the huge storm that came up the coast and wrought havoc on every city it dumped snow on. Believe it or...
Best of 2016: A White 1993 Lincoln Town Car That Is Packing A 700 Horsepower Monster Under Its Expansive Hood
You want to build a sleeper that will work in today’s day and age? Good luck. You have two options: find a platform with a ton of aftermarket parts and support, downplay the image, and hope...
Best of 2016: Watch The Engine In The Murder Nova Go Back Together In The Pits At Lights Out 7
Shawn Ellington’s week and weekend at SGMP for Lights Out 7 got off to a harder start than he had wanted after wounding the engine of his famous Murder Nova in pre-event testing. The bad part...
Best of 2016: Onboard Ice Racing From Garfield Lake In Minnesota – Where A 1990s Buick Can Be Competitive!
There has to be some kind of unnerving feeling inside of a driver when pulling a car the size of a 1990s Buick Roadmaster onto a frozen lake. Questions emerge…for most people, those questions...
