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RideTech Has One Of The Easiest And Most Effective Corvette C7 Upgrades Available Now! Delrin Bushings!

It seems like any sort of performance upgrade one would make to a C7 Corvette would be pretty complicated and expensive, right? After all they are the current generation Corvette and represent a halo...

If You Were The One That Bought This 1957 Mack School Bus, How Would You Modify It?

There’s a lot going on with this 1957 Mack school bus and frankly we’re in love with all of it. For starters, when is the last time you have seen a 1957 Mack school bus? The iconic...

Tired Of Seeing Old Iron Getting Thrashed In Movies? Enter The Mill Blackbird!

If you Bangshift readers are anything like us, you probably cringe every time a cool old car gets trashed in a chase scene in some movie, or smashed and beat on in a car insurance commercial, etc. I...

A Double-Ender 12 Cylinder Buick Regal? You Have To See This Thing!

Back when I was in college, I worked at a Chevrolet dealer in Norwood MA in the Parts Department for a few months. During my brief stint running parts there, I saw plenty of strange things both...

LA Roadsters Show Coverage: Inside Cars, Outside Cars, and More Of The Best SoCal Steel Around

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – Our ongoing LA Roadsters Show coverage continues today and it continues with a group of cars that range from half done to beautifully done. The LA Roadsters have...

Morning Symphony: Funday Sunday Street Drags At Calder Park – Wake Up To An Open Track Session In Australia!

If you haven’t left the confines of an air-conditioned building in the last few days, allow me to provide you with a news flash: it’s hot out. Roasting, sweat-inducing, humid heat. Summer...

BangShift Project Files: Following Up On The 1959 Edsel That Will Be Going On The LeMons Rally!

It’s been a little bit since we checked in on our buddy Jim and the 1959 Edsel four-door sedan that he was preparing for the LeMons Hell On Wheels Rally that will tour the American Southwest...

What In The…Anybody Need A 454-Powered, Super-Lifted Pontiac Montana?

WHOA. Ok, it’s been a weird week for online finds here at BangShift, we can’t even lie. First, Chad finds that sweet, lifted Ford van. Then I come across that lifted, ready-for-anything...

FAST XFI Sportsman System With Throttle Body – Ditch That Carb!

For us, the most impressive thing about the massive movement that racers and hot rodders are making to EFI (in its various forms) is how companies like FAST have spent the time and resources to make...

Looking for a new, completely insane street-legal drag car? How about this V8 Geo Metro on CraigsList?

Lotus founder and legendary designer Colin Chapman is famous for his “Simplify, then add lightness” quote and his preference for minimal weight in lieu of massive horsepower. But Chapman was...

NHRA Stock Eliminator Action Photos From The Lucas Oil Race At Maple Grove Raceway

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – So the other day we showed you some of the fine super stock cars and super stock action from the NHRA Lucas Oil Series division one race at Maple Grove Raceway....

Classic YouTube: Check Out This Vintage Footage Of A Corvair Owner’s Club Gymkhana Meet At Riverside International!

If Ralph Nader was to be believed, an event like a club meeting for Corvair owners at Riverside International Raceway Park in southern California should have ended in a mass of tangled, twisted...

Watch the Goodwood Festival of Speed LIVE for Free

We know there’s lots to stream this weekend, but if you want to get some good, free racing in over coffee and before racing is on stateside, the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed streams live for...

The Ultimate Red Flag: Watch As This Burning Lotus 2-Eleven Roll Back Onto A Live Racetrack!

It’s a bad enough day when your track-only special car decides to commit suicide by conflagration in a spectacular show on the racecourse. Anthony Fournier is the unlucky owner of this...