Mo’ Muscle! Check Out These Awesome Photos Of Muscle Cars On The Prowl
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More muscle-car era stuff and extras along with more photography geekness. Astute observers of my articles will note that I’ve been increasingly using...
Watch These Down Under Stadium Super Trucks Drivers End Up Upside-Down
Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks series has found a home away from home with several races in Australia. The brutish off-road trucks look positively absurd navigating any temporary street...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Scrapple Lite!
Look, we know that you belly up to the table wanting a great big heapin’ serving of the most middle-of-the-road, kind of interesting news we can dig up, and we’re sorry to say that this...
Moroso Releases Killer New Rear Sump Swap Oil Pan For LT Series Engines
The current generation of GM LT-engines has already grown to be very popular with hot rodders and the aftermarket. The LT has many of the elements that made the LS series so popular and they are...
Go Long With This Unique And Cool 1940 Ford Flower Car – Ever Seen One Before?
We have seen lots of flower cars here at BangShift over the years and most of them have been of the type you’d expect. Lincolns, Cadillacs, and other big cars. It makes sense that those would...
Chad and Daphne Could Use Your Help – Here’s The Situation And It Is Serious
When friends are having trouble or are facing a fight, we circle the wagons. Hot rodders, car guys, gearhead, petrolheads, and grease monkeys all protect their own. They throw in when help is needed...
The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!
Until I actually got to Bowling Green, I wasn’t aware that an actual 1983 Chevrolet Corvette actually existed. Seriously, I didn’t. I knew about the aborted test run of cars, and I knew...
Paralympic Gold Medalist Alex Zanardi Takes Victory in His Return to Racing
Just a bit more than 15 years ago, Alex Zanardi’s open-wheel racing career ended at the Lausitzring in Germany in one of racing’s most horrifying crashes. That 2001 wreck took Zanardi’s legs...
Cortina Driver Gives a Quick Lesson On How to Avoid a Costly Vintage Racing Accident
In the 1960s, Lotus Cortinas were racing everywhere. In the early years of the British Saloon Car Championships, the lythe little Lotus-tuned Fords diced with classic Minis and hulking American Ford...
Catch a Glimpse Under the Skin of the Railton Special Land-Speed-Record Setter in 1947
In the mid-20th Century, the easiest way to make big horsepower for land-speed attempts was to build a wheeled vehicle around an airplane engine. The post-war era found powerplants like the Allison...
Good Luck Hating This One: A 6.0L LSx-Swapped Kia Sorento – Who Thinks This Stuff Up?
If there is one thing that you readers are good at, it’s delivering your opinions in a very clear format. The clearest opinion of the year? If it’s an LSx swap, for some reason, it...
Project Angry Grandpa: Throwing This, That And The Kitchen Sink At It, Too – We’re Going To Get A Timeslip Out Of The Chrysler, And Here’s How!
In April of this year, we made the call that come hell or high water, Project Angry Grandpa, our 2006 Chrysler 300C, was going to do one simple trick: run a 13.99 or better and trap over 100 miles...
Work For That Money: Chasing Five Grand Up A Muddy Bounty Hill In Kentucky!
Normally, when we check in on the rock bouncer types, they are trying to fling themselves up a hill that looks to have been crafted by the Devil himself. There’s airborne rigs, there’s...
Weirdest Chevrolet Newsreel Ever: Man Goes Fishing With His 1936 Chevrolet Sedan – Uses Car As “Net”
Typically newsreel ads of the 1930s, especially those that showed cars highlighted stuff like their toughness, their robust construction, or their fuel economy. Chevrolet decided to go another way...
