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At Least It’s Not LS Powered: Watch This Honda K20-powered Mazda RX-7 Run Laps At The Track!

We’ve heard just about every possible position that involves General Motors’ LS series of engines and swap hatred. For an engine that makes stupid power cheaply, there is a lot of...

Dyno Dom’s Sikeston Dragway Is Now Jeffers Motorsports Park – Famed Chassis Builder Buys Dragstrip

One of the great stories that the drag racing world has produced over the last couple of years is that of a small eighth mile drag strip in Sikeston, Missouri. A man named Dom Blasco took ownership...

Morning Symphony: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s New Drift-Spec RTR Mustang!

The dark-colored Mustang with the lime-green accents and the V8 screaming to high heaven can be the property of only Vaughn Gittin, Jr. The accomplished drifter has wheeled Ford Mustangs since 2005...

Crummy News: The Awesome Wild Rat Injected Fuel Altered Suffered A Major Crash Last Weekend – Driver OK

(Photos from Greg Lippard’s FB page) –  If there has been a race car that we’ve been unabashed fan boys over here at BangShift it is the awesome Wild Rat injected fuel altered...

eBay Find: For The Classy Connoisseur, A 1977 Lincoln Mark V With A Bed!

Coupe utilities don’t get the respect they deserve in America, in our opinion. It doesn’t matter how nice one is, how well taken care of it is, most people view it as the ultimate redneck...

Autocross Video Action From The Goodguys Del Mar Nationals 2016: Sunny Weather And Fast Cars!

This past weekend we spent three straight days standing next to the Goodguys Autocross course at Del Mar as I was announcing and Daphne was running the computer systems. That means we say every...

Train Wreck Tuesday: Because Sometimes Twin Turbos Are Just The Beginning Of The Fun

It just so happens that we not only got one tip on a crazed rat rod truck creation but we also had a second and since it is Tuesday and we like trains, you know the rest. Brian Blackstone sent us...

Car Show Gallery: More Great Rides From The Bilsport Elmira Motor Show In Sweden!

(Photos: Mårten Carlsson) Over 70,000 people descended on the Bilsport Elmira Motor Show this year, taking in the wide mix of cars that were present and showing. With cars of all types present, from...

Train Wreck Tuesday: A Rat Rod Truck Build That You Really Have To See To Believe

There are times when we get tips from BangShifter out there that read the site every day, run across something, and just have to tell us about it. There are other times when guys that we know through...

Screaming Eagle: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Is Building A Hybrid Camaro That Will Crank Out 350 Horsepower and 657 Pound-Feet Of Torque!

It’s not everyday that I get to see the name of my alma mater in headlines with a Camaro as the lead-in picture, but this is awesome. General Motors has a program called EcoCAR 3, which aims to...

A Mad Max Mercedes And A Mangled Porsche From Last Weekend’s Action At The Nurburgring – Wild Video

(By Eric Rood) – The VLN (Don’t ask us to type out the incredibly long proper German name for which that is an abbreviation) hosts endurance races 10 times a year on the fabled Nurburgring...

This Lifted Crew Cab Chevy Pickup Is The Perfect Off-Road Family Tow Rig

Crew cabs, and Crew Cab Duallys, are my jam. I love them. I want them all. I don’t own one. Which makes it that much worse when I see them on Craigslist for screaming deals just needing a few...

Insanity on Ice: Unlimited Sleds of the Golden Age of Snowmobile Speed Runs, With Video

While winter has not gotten here in the technical sense of the date, the worm has turned for us in northern climates and it is cold, grey, and occasionally flurrying here and there. We know a guy in...

Action Photos: Radial Revenge Tour Coverage – Most Insane Radial Race Ever Right Here!

(Photos by Bad Brad’s Speed Shots) – The whole drag racing world was watching the happenings at Tulsa Raceway Park last weekend and we were doing it because of the incredible...