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Tire Thrash: We Hammer BMWs and Test Out Bridgestone’s Latest Performance Tire Offerings

Recently, the fine folks at Bridgestone Tires invited us to attend one of their “Drive and Learn” events. These events are primarily designed to educate sales people and distributors...

Legit Classic Gassers to Race Heads-Up at This Weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion!

As if you needed another reason to attend this weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green, Kentucky, here it is. There will be a special eighth mile, heads-up eliminator...

Cool Video: Ride Along in a Blown, 44ci Crosley Powered Dragster

We can say with a degree of certainty that this is the only 18-second drag car that will ever be featured in the BangShift blog. Ironically, it is that 18 second time slip that makes it so damned...

Event Gallery: The Tri-Cities Drag-Way Reunion – Endicott, NY

We’re officially in the era of the drag strip reunion. If you are a “glass half empty” person you see it as being sad because it reminds us of just how many strips have closed down....

Video: Tom and Jack Lohnes Pull out a Tree With Goliath!

After Dad Brian scored them a killer new Go Kart, the Lohnes boys, Tom and Jack, decided they needed more room on the Lohnes family homestead to create their own racetrack. Since Brian had also told...

Cruise Gallery: The Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise – Halifax, MA – June 2011

It was a fun night when we loaded the kids up and headed south from BangShift East Coast HQ in Goliath to the Connecting Rods Car Club Cruise Night last week. It was especially cool when we were...

Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Vicksburg, Michigan Old Car Festival

We’ve been taking you all over the country with our car show coverage today, and we’re not stopping! This time we head to Vicksburg, Michigan for the 2011 Vicksburg Old Car Festival, a...

Cruise Gallery: The Kemah, Texas Cruise – June 2011

With the temperatures sky rocketing in Texas at this time of the year, car show season hits a bit of a lull from the frenetic pace of the early Spring. Luckily, cruise night season is still going...

Massive Wreckage Video: The Two Scary Audi Wrecks from the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans

While Audi managed to win the 2011 24 Hours of LeMans, the victory came at an awfully high price. Two of their cars, both handmade, one-off, multi-million dollar pieces, were reduced to broken shards...

Kick Ass Drag Gallery: The 2011 Hunnert Car Heads Up – Great Lakes Dragaway – Union Grove, Wisconsin

When BangShift photo contributor Greg Rourke told us he was available to cover the Hunnert Car Heads-Up we were excited. After all, the Hunnert Car Heads Up has become one of the coolest...

Bill Caswell Inks Movie Deal, Jeremy Renner to Star in Slingshot, the Story of Caswell’s Wild Adventures

We’ve been dying to tell you about this! Bill Caswell has signed a deal with Jeremy Renner, who in turn has teamed with Paramount Pictures to make a movie on the wild rally adventures of Bill...

Cool Shop Tool: Adamstand Work Benches

Joe Adams is the creator and inventor of the Adamstand Work Bench. When we first learned about the neato piece of shop equipment we weren’t really sure as to what the heck we were looking at....

Hot Rod Power Tour Day 6: Brake Lights, Bowling, Burgers…And Peeing

To see Matt’s latest update, click here and we’ll take you right to it. This year’s Power Tour coverage promises to be some of our most fun yet. You see we conned our own Mad Matt...

Heidts Performance Car Challenge will feature Shipka, Pozzi, and BangShiftChad.

We’ve been fans of the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational and it’s qualifiers like the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge for the last few years and have gotten to know some of the...