Hittin’ the Road: Detroit AutoRama and Ice Drags Coverage Coming this Weekend
Feb 26, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Both Chad and I are escaping the surly bonds of home this weekend to bring you event coverage from two of the coldest places in the country. He’s leaving sunny SoCal to hit the Detroit...
Multiple John Delorean Movie Projects in the Works
Feb 26, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
John DeLorean, the legendary auto executive, is a popular guy in the halls of Hollywood these days. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that there are no less than three bio-pics in the works to be...
NASCAR’s Kurt Busch To Run Super Gas at Gatornationals in Street Legal Hemi Challenger
Feb 26, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
2004 NASCAR champ Kurt Busch will compete at the upcoming NHRA Gatornationals in Super Gas, according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In a very neat twist, Busch will be driving his 1970...
Experts Say Don’t Forget Cars When Estate Planning
Feb 25, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
It’s a lightning rod issue among the bloody knuckle set we BangShifters identify with. Yeah, car collecting for money. Some would say that the preservation of classic cars, hot rods, and muscle...
Hilarious Video: Guy Drives Deuce and a Half Through Above Ground Pool
Feb 25, 2010Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, Videos
Watching this video will make you really want a deuce and a half truck. It will also serve as a good base for the guaranteed argument you’ll have with your spouse when you share that idea....
Craigslist Find: The Eclips-Onco
Feb 25, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
Our fascination with trars is well known here at BangShift.com. While it’s true that many people hate the elusive trar, we love them in a circus freak kind of way. We’re not the only...
Speedy Says: The Top 11 Products That Should Have Motorsports Celebrity Endorsements
Feb 25, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
That’s hot! I exclaimed as I singed my hand on a “Paris Hilton Celebrity Styler” (curling iron) that Mrs. Speedzzter left smoldering in the sink. Through the pain, I began...
Race Track Safety Story Paints NASCAR Tracks in Glowing Light, Seems Like Slap at NHRA
Feb 25, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
The tragic death of a spectator at last weekend’s NHRA race at Firebird Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona, has opened the discussion of race track safety. We were tipped off to a Fox Sports story,...
Photo Gallery: Galpin Auto Sports Collection, Including Ed Roth and Von Dutch Stuff
Feb 24, 2010Chad ReynoldsBangShift Galleries, Event Coverage, OTHER
Galpin Auto Sports is most often known for one of two things. Being the biggest and baddest Ford dealership on the planet is one, and the other is the reputation they have for building weirdo cars....
Former GM CEO Fritz Henderson Now Consulting For GM, Making $3,000 per hour
Feb 24, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
It’s good to be Fritz. After getting whacked from his position atop GM back in February, Fritz Henderson is back on the GM payroll as a consultant. He’s making $59,090 a month and he has...
John Medlen Working On Wheel Tethers for Top Fuel Cars, May Be Mandated For GatorNationals
Feb 24, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve not been reporting on the tragic death of a spectator at last weekend’s NHRA event in Phoenix, Arizona, where a wheel separated from Anton Brown’s Top Fuel dragster and...
Killer Video: A Big 4×4 Ford Truck That’s Way Too Quick
Feb 24, 2010Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
What kind of lunatic builds an all-aluminum 511ci Ford FE engine and plugs it into a huge, lifted 4×4 truck for the purposes of drag racing it? A BangShift.com approved lunatic, that’s...
We Knew It: Chicks Dig Tractors (Well at least one does)
Feb 24, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
A 17-year old British girl recently won first prize at an English tractor show. She did a frame up resto-job on a 1963 Ford Dexta tractor and completed the entire project by herself. She comes from a...
Camaro Versus Train: Train Wins, Camaro Driver Lives
Feb 24, 2010Brian LohnesBangShift News
If you’re gonna be dumb, you’ve gotta be tough. These words are gospel for the driver of a Camaro in Texas who made the brilliant decision to run through a closed railroad crossing. His...
