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eBay Find: A C5 Corvette Wrapped In A K5 Blazer – Wild Mash Up!

Just when you thought that Scott’s AMX/GTO would top the crazy mashups of the day here on BangShift we go and find something that rivals it in terms of creativity and difficulty to create. What...

Insane Videos: Watch A Snowmobile Powered By A 750hp Nitro Burning Top Fuel Motorcycle Engine Haul Ass!

As crazy as the 3,000hp Frozen Assets snow dragster was last week, this conventional snowmobile powered by a slightly detuned top fuel motorcycle engine is even wackier. The sled (which we think was...

The AMX/GTO: 1969 AMX + 2006 GTO + Home Garage = BangShift Appproved Tire Melting Awesome

If you give a hot rodder three things: a welder, creativity, and time, you are guaranteed some type of cool result. Such is the case with my neighbor (literally about a 1/4 mile down the road) Scott...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck Rip Out Mustang Sally

Let’s see, Buddy Guy is awesome and Jeff Beck it totally awesome so putting them together gives us what? Awesomer? We’ll go with that. This is a “late model” version of...

Video: Amazing In-Car Footage Of Mini Sprint Car Arena Racing – Intense, Fast, and Crazy As Hell!

BangShifter Steve Shevlin recently sent us an email with a link to several videos of a three quarter midget race from an arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey and it is absolutely awesome. The little...

Powermaster Starters and Alternators Joins The BangShift Family Of Sponsors

It is always exciting for us to announce new members of the BangShift sponsor family and this one is no different. Powermaster, a leading producer of starters and alternators for everything from...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What TV or Movie Car/Truck Suffered The Most Tragic On Screen Death?

As much as we love famous cars and trucks that take on lives of their own in the movies or on tv, many of them end up in bad shape. Maybe they’re jumped off cliffs, set on fire, crashed into...

Video: A Day At The Drags With A Lenco Equipped Pontiac Firebird – Pure Mechanical Music!

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Some of our favorite videos are the ones where good camera angles are used, some nice cuts are made, and nothing else is done to screw with...

Ozzy Moya Acquires Assets Of Orlando SpeedWorld Dragway – Assures Racing For “At Least The Next 20 Years”

Over the weekend we received the below announcement from Ozzy Moya himself and we’re very happy to share it with you. Moya has taken over Orlando Speedworld Dragway and will operate it into the...

Gallery: More Super Bad Ass 1980s Pro Street Photos – A True Time Warp Gallery Of Photos!

(Photos by BS Member DragBike425) – Man, the hits just keep on coming with respect to killer shots of the 1980s Pro Street craze that completely enveloped the hot rodding hobby in the 1980s and...

Phil Remington Dead At 92 – Legendary Fabricator, Designer, and Engineer – American Racing Hero

With sadness, I report the passing of Phil Remington who accomplished more in his 92 years on Earth than most can ever dream of. Remington’s skills as a builder, fabricator, engineer, and...

Click Here To Watch A FREE LIVE Stream Of The PSCA Record Breaker Nationals And NHRA Pro Stock Testing Feb 9-10th. 9AM Sat, 10AM Sun

That’s right folks, it’s time for PSCA Racing action LIVE here at BangShift.com where for the second year in a row we’ll be broadcasting start to finish action at the PSCA Record...

Best of BangShift: Blizzard Preparedness- Screw Canned Goods and Batteries, Fix the Antique John Deere Snowmobile!

While weiner, clean-handed automotive bloggers were preparing breathless items about the new Kia Rio, sipping a Mochachino and working up a semi to Ken Block videos, we were laying in the snow,...

OPEN HOUSE: Racepak and MSD Open The Doors: FREE Food, Seminars, Tech, and Prizes!

Hell yeah boys and girls, it’s time for the Racepak and MSD Open House here on the West Coast. Held at Racepak’s headquarters in Rancho Santa Margarita on Wednesday February 13th, you can...