FUNNY NEWS: CAR REPORTED STOLEN IN AUSTRALIA ACTUALLY ROLLED AWAY AND PARKED ITSELF IN A GARAGE
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
Police in Adelaide, Australia responded to a call of a suspected burglary and instead discovered a car that was reported stolen from a market two weeks ago. In one of the most epic, “that...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW VIDEO: FORMER PRO MOD CHAMPION MITCH STOTT IS BUILDING RC PLANE LANDING GEAR?
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, MISC
door slammer in the five second zone. He turned the trick back in 2003 at Darlington Dragway. He was a big force in the Pro Mod ranks through the 1990s and early into the 2000s. Then, like lots of...
BS TECH: PRO TUNING SECRETS PART 1 – FINDING POWER RIGHT IN YOUR DISTRIBUTOR
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesENGINE, Tech Stories
Those Bangshifters who are old enough to have owned muscle cars when they were new, or nearly new, remember taking their rides to a performance oriented dealership to get a super tune that was good...
WEIRD WRECK VIDEO: A HONDA MOUNTS A CADDY INSIDE A PARKING GARAGE!
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN
You’ve got to feel bad to the owner of the Caddy that was totaled in this strange Massachusetts crash. It was reported the woman drove her 2011 STS to the office, parked in a garage she never...
BANGSHIFT QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT YOU’VE EVER DONE TO AN ENGINE?
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
After seeing the photo of that nuked Hemi, it naturally made us think of crap that we have blown up or been directly involved with the destruction of. Back in college when running the VW road racing...
COOL VIDEO: ACTION FROM THE GOODGUYS DEL MAR AUTOCROSS AND CHAD GETTING ATTACKED WITH PIE!
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesFUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION
So there I was, digging on this really neat video featuring action from the Goodguys Del Mar autocross and BAM! Right there at the end Chad gets attacked with pie. Is there anything better in the...
SAD NEWS: PONTIAC-OAKLAND CLUB INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT DAVID BENNETT PASSES
Jan 06, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
Sad news from the world of Pontiacs today as POCI President David Bennett passed away unexpectedly after taking a fall last week. Bennett has been the president of the organization since 2008 and had...
BANGSHIFT EXCLUSIVE: INAUGURAL LINGENFELTER PERFORMANCE NATIONALS TO HAPPEN AT NORWALK IN SEPT 2012!
Jan 05, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, one of the most fabled and respected high performance car builders in the nation has announced that they will host the Lingenfelter Performance Nationals on...
CHEVY CALLING ALL 8,000 VOLTS BACK TO DEALERS FOR STEEL PLATE INSTALL TO PROTECT BATTERIES
Jan 05, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
GM has announced that they will have all 8,000 Chevy Volts currently on the road return to dealerships for the installation of a steel plate that will help to prevent a fire like that which occurred...
AWESOME IN-CAR VIDEO: A THREE GEAR WHEELSTAND!
Jan 05, 2012Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION
Lisa Caldwell is a California bracket racer who loves her Mopar and loves wheelstands. We’re not talking weenie little one foot jobs either, we’re talking bumper dragging, bang a couple...
MOVE OVER SMALLEST, CRAPPIEST CAR IN THE WORLD – THERE IS A NEW SMALLEST, CRAPPIEST, CAR IN THE WORLD
Jan 04, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
The Bajaj company of India has introduced a car that is smaller, crappier, slower, and appears to be more unfit for human travel than the current king of those categories, the Tata Nano. Measuring...
BREAKING NEWS: BRANDON BERNSTEIN NAMED DRIVER OF MAV TV/LUCAS OIL DRAGSTER
Jan 04, 2012Brian LohnesBangShift News
One of the most prominent rumors floating around the professional drag racing scene over the last couple of weeks had Brandon Bernstein taking the seat in the second Morgan Lucas Racing team car for...
CRAZY VIDEO: AN IN CAR VIEW OF A HUGE HIGHWAY PILE UP – WARNING BAD LANGUAGE!
Jan 04, 2012Brian LohnesCRASH & BURN
The guys over at Jalopnik posted this wild video earlier today and we were tipped off to it by a reader. WARNING – THERE ARE MULTIPLE F-WORDS USED AND YOU CAN HEAR THEM CLEARLY – WARNING....
RACING JUNK FIND: A TURN-KEY 1966 MUSTANG ROAD RACER
Jan 04, 2012Brian LohnesRacing Junk Find
Hey, if we’re talking about suspensions that make classic American cars carve corners, let’s look at one that has been set up to do just that! This 1966 Mustang has been a competitor and...
