FREE LIVE AUTOCROSS: All Day Saturday From The So Cal Challenge In Costa Mesa
Aug 31, 2013Chad ReynoldsBangShift News
The guys at BlackInkMedia are at it again this weekend with yet another SoCal Challenge event this weekend. BangShift’s Chad Reynolds will be on site announcing and broadcasting live so that...
Roadside Find: An Old (and Neat) Scoopmobile Articulating Front End Loader
Aug 31, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
Recently we were minding our business, rolling down the road, when we spied this neat old orange beast. This is a really cool machine made by the long dead Scoopmobile company. Aside from having a...
Mini-Feature: A 1957 International Welding Truck That’s The Same As It Was When It Left The Job Site
Aug 31, 2013Brian LohnesXL Street Truck Feature, XL Truck Feature
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – We sometimes see a guy at car shows with a 1957 International Harvester pickup. He tells us his grandfather bought the truck brand new, and converted it for...
Video: Watch The Australian Mercedes Plumbing Van Dip Into 7s With A Pissed Off Nitrous Snorting 632 Chevy
Aug 31, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Outlandish drag cars and trucks have long been a part of the fabric of quarter mile competition and it doesn’t matter what part of the world you’re in for that statement to be true....
Video: The Miniature Slingshot From The Postman Pat Guys Hits The Strip!
Aug 30, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Our pals over in England, the Postman Pat dudes have gotten their awesome little motorcycle powered slingshot dragster on the strip! The run you’ll see in the video below was made last weekend...
Bitchin’ Video: Watch A Corvette Grand Sport Rally Car Get Prepared For The East African Safari Rally!
Aug 30, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
A couple years ago we were geeked out by the dudes who attached the East African Safari Rally with an old Mustang. As cool as that was, another group of racers has risen to the challenge and built a...
Video: Monterey Historics At Laguna Seca Highlights
Aug 30, 2013Chad ReynoldsRACING & ACTION
We’ve never been able to go to the Monterey Historics race at Laguna Seca in Monterey, even when we lived close by. It’s just always been on a weekend where something else was going on,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Have You Had So Many Cars That You Actually Forget Some Of Them Sometimes?
Aug 30, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Question Of The Day??
This isn’t a bragging type of question. Trust us. We’re not lighting our cigars with $100 bills around here and forgetting that we have a Bentley parked around back by the servant...
Craigslist Find: A Never Titled Or Registered 1969 SS Camaro With Racing History
Aug 30, 2013Chad ReynoldsCraigslist Find
Robert Martin at MSD found this one yesterday and sent it over saying that this one was rare. You think? Hell yes it’s rare! Who else has a ’69 Camaro SS that has never been titled or...
Event Gallery: Corvettes At Carlisle – Street Freaks, Barn Finds, Race Cars, Restos, and More!
Aug 30, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift Galleries, CAR SHOWS, Event Coverage
(Photos by Jeff Lee) – There’s no denying that the Corvette nameplate is one of the most deeply seated in the American high performance automotive world. From sports car racing to the...
PowerShift is BACK – Come Watch LIVE With Chad and Brian! The Show Starts At 6pm Pacific/9 Eastern!
Aug 29, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
After a couple week break, BangShift’s no-ready-for-primetime show PowerShift returns LIVE TONIGHT! We’ll be kicking things off at the normal time of 6PM Pacific and 9PM eastern time that...
National Challenge ’72: Lundberg, Garlits and The Greatest Rogue Drag Race Ever
Aug 29, 2013Brian LohnesBangShift News
(Editor’s note: We ran this story last year the day the US Nationals kicked off and we’re doing it again in 2013. We’ve added some info, so give it a fresh look!) This weekend the...
Amazing Video: Watch An Awesome Close Call On The Nurburgring That Results In Zero Wreckage – Awesome Driving!
Aug 29, 2013Brian LohnesRACING & ACTION, Videos
Hey, I guess today is “near miss” day on BangShift. That’s fine with me because like the video of the wild drag boat “save and sink” earlier today this video featuring...
Barnstormin’: You Don’t Want Reality So Stop Bitching About Not Getting It
Aug 29, 2013Brian LohnesBarnstormin'
On Tuesday, the guys from Jalopnik ran a cool story that investigated the thousands and thousands of FCC complaints filed by NASCAR fans watching races on TV. It really is a great read and gives you...
