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This jet engine on a test stand makes an (un)expected exit stage left

We’ve shown you near-catastrophes here with turbine engines before on BangShift, including some chaps who nearly let one get away from their makeshift test stand on a forklift pallet. However, not...

No Prep? No Problem! Watch Andy Reynolds Put His Malibu Wagon On The Bumper At Ozark Raceway Park

Many BangShifters out there may be familiar with Andy Reynolds and his awesome red Malibu station wagon. Andy has done drag week with the car, races the wheels off of it, and has a reputation of not...

Gympkhana: The Car Bros Are Back With A #Viral Car #Action Video

We’re big fans of the Car Bros YouTube channel around here and when they release a new video we are always excited to see it. This time they have released Gympkhana, their funny take on the...

Radical Overkill Is The Best Kind: Watch As Dirt Every Day Turns This Ford Crew Cab Into A Monster!

Rockcrawling is usually the territory of small, nimble rigs that have great suspension articulation, gearing for days, and enough suspension flex to make a Baja racer jealous. they don’t...

Pro Street Perfected: This 1956 Chevy Survived The 1990s And Aged Beautifully – Awesome

Gold star tipster of the day award goes to Austin Stephens for sending us this link to this thundering heap of magnificence below. The pro street 1956 Chevy is so awesome we’re not sure what to...

Is This “Strange Camaro Week”?! Check Out This 1968 Camaro Custom Build – Front-Flip Hood And A Chopped Roof!

Tony Sestito’s purple-people-eater Camaro/TrailBlazer hybrid from yesterday was just horrifying. The plum-colored paint, the kit bashed appearance, and the questionable V8 under the hood all...

Watch As Friends And Fellow Racers Pay Tribute To One Of Their Own At Shakespeare County Raceway

You often hear and see racers talk about people they know at the track as “a family”. We do it all the time here as well, but what does that mean to you? Are you just used to seeing...

Watch a stuntman ghost-ride his whip at an Expert level in front of thousands at Goodwood

There are about 8,000,000 things I want to post from last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed across the pond in Sussex. The always-badass Beast of Turin was there, as were most of the...

Unhinged: Why Losing Top Gear USA Royally Sucks.

I read Rutledge Wood’s post on Facebook yesterday as my wife and I were out shopping for electrical equipment for our garage, and immediately my stomach turned sour. As Brian told you guys...

Romain Dumas wins Pikes Peak hillclimb a week after winning Le Mans; watch his historic run here

Fresh off his share of a surprising and dramatic 24 Hours of Le Mans victory with Porsche, French driver Romain Dumas jumped from a Denver-bound jet almost directly into his highly modified Norma M20...

NMCA All-American Nationals Nostalgia Super Stock Coverage – Where The Legends Live

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – Nostalgia Super Stock racing can be described effectively by three words; old school legends. It’s a land of 427s, wedges, and Hemis. Where bumper...

WELD Racing Launches New 17″ RT-S and 13″ Magnum Imports Beadlock Wheels – Late Model Drag Cars Win!

With the number of insanely high horsepower late model cars hitting the strip these days along with big power imports cars, WELD Racing recognized a hole in the market and they are filling it right...

First Look: The “Ice Cars” From The Upcoming “Fast 8” Film – What Are They Doing, Racing In The Arctic?

(All photos: via Facebook/Fast & Furious) We knew that Universal Studios was going to push on with the “Fast and Furious” franchise after the death of Paul Walker. We know that the...

Kaput: Top Gear America Has Been Cancelled – Rutledge Wood Breaks News On His Facebook Page

Well that’s the end of that. Top Gear America has been cancelled and word of the last episode airing tonight was delivered by Rutledge Wood, one of the three guys who made up the show’s...