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Video Of Big Power Machines Doing A Hill Climb On Snow! BangShift Approved Use Of A Ski Slope!

We’ve all seen plenty of hillclimb events on sand or gravel, but this one is a first for us. This is arguably the most BangShift approved way to use a ski slope. Instead of running down it with...

This 1978 Dodge Power Wagon Tow Truck Is The Ultimate Road Trip Vehicle, Right?

Ok look, this is important. I have been hinting to my wife that this fantastically clean and sweet 1978 four-wheel-drive Dodge tow truck would be the ultimate road trip vehicle because we’d...

NHRA Houston 2014 – Top Fuel Gallery With Wadded Up Tires and BIG Header Flames

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Antron Brown walked out of Houston last weekend with a top fuel Wally as he has done so many times before. Brown piloted his Matco Tools sponsored dragster through...

2014 FE Race And Reunion – More Photos Of Historic And Rip Roaring Ford Machines From Beaver Springs

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The hits just keep on coming from the lens of Joe Grippo whose massive collection of photos from the 2014 FE Race and Reunion at Beaver Springs Dragway document one of...

Garlits Falls Short Of 200 On First Day of Testing – Second Session Should Yield Double Century Runs

A couple of days ago Don Garlits and and the SR-37 Questn team descended on Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida to attempt to break the 200mph (quarter mile) barrier in an all electric, battery...

LIVE Streaming Video From The Formula Offroad Races In Sweden On Now!

You know how much we love Formula Offroad, the high flying, hill climbing, flipping, rooster tail throwing races held in Sweden and Norway. And here is your chance to watch it LIVE right here on...

Look At All The Cheap Porsche’s We Found! What Would You Do With/To Them?

A couple of weekends ago, while walking the Pomona Swap Meet, we found a clean and straight 944 Porsche that was sitting on a trailer for sale. When I asked how much it was, just out of curiosity,...

BangShift Has A New Shop! What Should We Call It? What Should We Put In It? Help Us Decide!

For years I have cussed all of you that have nice shops at home, with all your toys and tools in them, because I’ve been stuck in a two car garage with two cars, another car worth of parts, and...

This Flying Dune Buggy Thing Looks Like A Great Way To Thin The Herd Of Rich Adventure Seekers

There are a couple of divergent elements in this video. The first is the relationship between the dune buggy looking “SkyRunner” while it is on the ground versus while it is on the air....

The Ford Supervan: A Gurney-Westlake Powered British Utility Truck That We’d Give A Limb To Hammer On

The Ford Transit has only been on American shores for a few years. It looks like a Ford Fusion that melded with a small work van. In England, however, the Transit has been around for decades. The...

Rick’s Tanks How-To Video: Installing A Replacement Fuel Tank With In-Tank Pump In A ’57 Chevy

BangShift Contributor Justin Oney, and the gang from Rick’s Tanks, recently swapped out the factory fuel tank and hack job fuel system in Justin’s Craigslist ’57 Chevy project for...

This Lumina-Camino Is No Hack Job And We’re Dying To Find Out The Full Story On It

BangShifter Tom Campanelli is killing it lately. Not only was he the guy sending us live updates from Bradenton, Florida where Garlits was trying to run 200mph in the electric dragster yesterday, he...

Reader Drag Week Whips – How About A 1954 Chevy And A 1974 Opel Manta To Sum Up Daily Driver?

Here are two cars that will be part of the near 130 car field in the Daily Driver class at Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2014. They are wildly different and pretty much sum up the coolness that is daily...

Nitro Pits and Thrash Photos From NHRA Houston 2014 – Sweet, Sweet Nitro Parts!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that nitro burning top fuel engines use the hardest core speed parts we know of inside of them. Believe it or not, the...