83 Years Ago The 200 mph Barrier Was Broken on Daytona Beach
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We missed the anniversary by a couple of days, but 83 years ago Henry Seagrave drove a monsterous, purpose built, 1,000hp car built by Sunbeam in England to a speed of 203 mph. This was the first car...
State Troopers Stop Runaway Horse and Buggy, Neither Horse Nor Buggy Made By Toyota
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We don’t think NHSTA will be getting involved in the investigation of this runaway vehicle because the root cause may have been an errant bag of oats, but Pennsylvania state troopers recently...
Caption This Photo: An Organically Grown Mustang
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
BangShift field photo agent and forum member Joe Grippo recently posted this hilarious photo of a Mustang springing forth from the ground. It’s totally ripe for some captioning action. We...
Dyno Video: A Boss 429 Screaming to Be Let Out
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesENGINES, Videos
The Boss 429 was certainly a bad hombre from Ford back in the day. As we told you a while back, there are companies where you can now buy new crate versions of the blue oval monster to bolt in your...
Kid Crashes Camaro, Gives Cops Flimsy Story, and They Seem to Buy It
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
When we read about two high school kids in a Camaro wiping out a fire hydrant in California we thought the kids were in for it legally. We then read the story that they gave the coppers about the...
Gag Us: Tesla Wins Lamest Auto Race In History
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
There’s nothing like a good ol’ fashioned, unabashed, stroke job news story. We found a great one touting the Tesla’s win at the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally. The race is...
Insane Fail Video: How Not to Right a Tipped Over Tractor Trailer
Mar 31, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
This is one of the flat out nuttiest fail videos we have ever seen. It’s from a foreign country, which one we have no idea, and there’s lots of screaming and yelling in languages we...
New Sponsor: ProCharger brings Boost to BangShift.com
Mar 30, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
As you have undoubted noticed, BangShift.com has brought another new and exciting sponsor into the fold! We are proud to announce that ProCharger, The Ultimate Power Adder, has joined BangShift.com....
Cool Video: A Top Fuel Hydroplane Throwing Header Flames on the Water
Mar 30, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Top Fuel Hydros are the baddest mothers on the water. Take all the aspects of a fuel dragster or Funny Car, smoosh it down into a swoopy looking boat, and voila! You’ll be doing 250 mph on the...
eBay Find: The World’s Most Expensive Quadrajet Carb
Mar 30, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
We like to torture ourselves by searching for our dream cars occasionally. One of the cars we like looking for among the fleet we’d love to have is the ’73-’74 SD455 Firebird. They...
Carnage Video: Guy Stuffs a Viper in a Line of Traffic
Mar 30, 2010Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN, Videos
To set the scene, you’re out bombing around in your Viper, maybe even with a hottie in the passenger seat. Traffic is heavy, but you are slicing and dicing like Fangio. Life is good, and as...
Killer Parts: A Vintage Edelbrock SY1 Smokey Ram
Mar 30, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
When we recently got a call from our pal and fellow BangShifter Mike Casella of Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts, informing us that he had something we “needed to see”...
Ford Brings “One Ford” Concept to Drag Racing and John Force racing to Lead Contingent
Mar 30, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
In two related pieces of drag racing news from FoMoCo, it was announced that John Force Racing has signed on for another five years of corporate backing from the blue oval crowd, and that...
Pulling Video: A Vintage Ford Sporting V8 Power
Mar 30, 2010Brian LohnesMISC, Videos
Since BangShift.com first got off the ground, we’ve not been shy of our affection for old tractors. We happened to be surfing YouTube as we do far too often and found some footage of an old...
