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The 2nd Annual Working Man’s Ten Grand Race $10,000 To Win Sunday

The Working Man’s Ten Grand is a great drag racing event. In it’s second year, this event has been moved to Kil-Kare Raceway just outside of Dayton, Ohio and is drawing the best and the...

The Want Is Real!!! This Barn Find 1965 Impala Station Wagon Is Big Block Powered And Bad Ass As Can Be!

Look at it! Would you just look at it? This is greatness. I have zero dollars to buy it, but it is amazing and I love it and want it and you should too. This 1965 Impala Station Wagon is the holy...

OBS Clash Episode 2: How The Sport Truck Became An Icon That Spawned Whole Industries

Here is Episode 2 of the OBS Clash Series folks! Anyone who reads BANGshift on any regular basis knows I’m a Chevrolet guy to the core, and that I love my Square Body Chevy pickups. But I love...

If You Lost Against This Turbocharged Dodge Caravan, You Missed The Warning Signs!

One of the best lessons I ever learned in life I learned during Army basic training. Without a question, at six-foot-three and 228 pounds, I was one of, if not the biggest soldier in training during...

How To Chop The Top On A Hot Rod: These Videos Have Us Inspired To Find Something To Cut Up!

A couple different BANGshifters actually put us onto Half Ass Kustoms on YouTube and their recently started series on chopping a top. In this case the willing victim happens to be a 1951 Dodge...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was The Worst Smell You’ve Ever Encountered?

When all you mess around with are sub-$1,000 shitbox cars, you’re bound to offend your nostrils. It’s just a way of life for me, I guess. Over the years, I’ve had cars that...

Weld Porn: The Plasma Bike Gets A Coffin Style Aluminum Gas Tank

Anyone who has ever fabricated a gas tank knows that there is a lot of work that goes into making one, even if it is just a plane box. But throw in a bunch of angles and such, like a Coffin style...

Money No Object: The Fairmonster – Because You Need An Absolutely Beast Ford!

We almost don’t have to tell you anything about this car. We can just let you watch the video, see the violence that this banana pudding yellow 1978 Ford Fairmont Futura is capable of, and let...

BangShift Project Files: Meet The Wedge, A Rolling…(psst…what is it again?!)

Six years ago, this car first hit the BangShift forums as a curiousity, a freak show that Joe Haber had seen roaming around Arizona, a car that nobody knew the backstory to, a car that nobody knew...

Historical Footage: MotorWeek’s Comparison Between The 1969 Pontiac Trans Am And The 1999 Trans Am 30th Anniversary Edition

Nobody…not MotorWeek, not GM, not even the buying public, could have seen that this would be the last Anniversary Trans Am. Sure, in 1999 rumors had started to surface that GM’s F-car...

GLORY VIDEO: Crank The Speakers To 11 and Watch This Screaming Z/28 Take On Sebring!

It does not matter if you like Fords, hate Chevrolets, or have never given a rip about road racing in your life. You NEED to watch this video and ride along with Olly Bryant in the Z/28 Olly so...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift – Slush Box Edition: Hurst Lightning Rods

With the early 1980s starting to signal the return of performance cars in Detroit, manufacturers got creative in finding unique ways and angles to use to promote cars. Oldsmobile was still producing...

Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!

Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...

Speedy Delivery: This 670-Horsepower Ford Escort Van Is The Tradesman’s Best Friend!

The Ford Escort…the world car that just wasn’t. In America, we got them as…well, let’s see here: three-door hatchback, five-door hatchback, two-door two-seater hatchback...