Killer Gallery: Up Close and Personal with the Internet Famous 24V71 Detroit Diesel of Big Mike Harrah
Jan 12, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, BangShift News, Car Features
Video of “Big” Mike Harrah’s 24V71 Detroit Diesel engine has been making the internet rounds for the last several months. The gargantuan engine is going to be stuffed into a...
Awesome Video: A Gathering of Vintage Dirt Track Iron Tearing up the Track
Jan 12, 2011Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Much of America’s racing heritage was built on dirt tracks by men driving dangerous machines on small rings all over the country. There wasn’t a fairgrounds in America without a horse...
Racing Junk Find: A 1970 Chevelle SS Wagon We’re Selling a Kidney For
Jan 12, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News, Racing Junk Find
Old wagons are cool in all of their forms, but when said wagon had been warmed up with respect to performance, the cool meter gets pegged. Such is the case with this kick ass 1970 Chevelle wagon that...
Great Racing Video: AC/DC and the Drags Were Meant to go Together
Jan 11, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
In our minds, there’s no better musical sound track at the drag strip than AC/DC. That being said, there’s no better band to provide the soundtrack to a drag racing video than those...
Scamming Tow Truck Driver Gets 14 Years in Prison
Jan 11, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Today’s proof that there is sometimes justice in the world comes from Santa Clara, California where a judge sentenced a scamming jerk of a tow truck driver to 14 years in prison after he...
NASCAR to Allow Drivers Championship Points in One Series Only
Jan 11, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
News has leaked out about a fairly substantial change in policy regarding NASCAR drivers’ ability to compete for multiple championsips in 2011. According to the information we have acquired,...
BangShift Project Spotlight: The 1957 Chevy One-Ton Gets a Bed and a Bitchin’ Vintage Slide-In Camper
Jan 11, 2011Brian LohnesCHEVY, Project Cars
BangShift member Squirrel has some awesome stuff. His blown 1955 Chevy is a personal favorite car of ours, but his recent project, a 1957 Chevy one-ton truck has really gotten our attention. Jim...
Lucas Oil Products Scores Naming Rights to Home of US Nationals
Jan 11, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Lucas Oil Products, who by our estimation is the single most prolific sponsor of racing and motorsports events in the USA has acquired the naming rights to the facility formerly known as Indianapolis...
Question of the Day: Are Old War Planes BangShifty?
Jan 10, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News, BangShift Question Of The Day??
Obviously we’re an automotive website and there are no plans to chance that focus anytime soon.With that being said, the gearhead universe has all sorts of neat aspects to it that aren’t...
Caption this Photo: Digger on the Roof
Jan 10, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
We’ve seen Funny Cars on a pole before, but we have never seen a dragster parked on a roof. BangShift form moderator Daryl found this gem perched on the roof of a local convenience store....
BangShift Says Thank You to our Photo Contributors!
Jan 10, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
Like usual, we’re running about two weeks behind on business that should have been taken care of around the turn of the new year. Long story short, we wanted to take a minute and publicly thank...
eBay Find: A Ford Monster Truck Built From a Huge Massey Ferguson Tractor
Jan 10, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News, eBay Find
Tractors? We love them. Old school monster trucks? Yep, love ’em too. Making an old school looking monster truck out of a huge tractor? You’ve basically described mechanical porno. A man...
Mini-Feature: The Screamin’ Demon Barn Found Super Stocker
Jan 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
While trolling the grounds at Beech Bend Raceway during the 2010 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion we spied what looked to be an old race car out of the corner of our eye. Closer examination revealed...
Roadside Find: A Factory Fresh 1931 Model A
Jan 08, 2011Brian LohnesBangShift News
It was our keen-eyed four year old who first spotted this 1931 Ford Model A as we strode down the street in York, Maine, last summer. We quickly snapped into action, crossed the street, and began...
