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Cool Then, Cool Now: This Look At The 1994 Porsche 911 3.6 Turbo Stirs Up Our Teenage Angst

Growing up as a muscle car and drag race loving kid, it may be a bit of a surprise to hear that I hav always had a weird fondness for Porsches as well. Not that I or anyone else in my family ever...

Stay In Shape: This Video From QA1 Talks About The Importance Of Off-Season Suspension Maintenance For Drag, Street, and Circle Track Cars

If there is one part of racing and really hot rodding in general that does not get the attention that it deserves, it is maintenance. Keeping your parts, pieces, and car working the way it should...

Awesome Video: This Is The Craziest Plow Demonstration Ever – Train Tracks, Rocks, Plowing The Forest Floor! At Speed!

This could be the most BangShift approved plow demonstration video ever created or that ever will be created. The crew at Pathfinder snow plows wanted to show off how tough their polyurethane bladed...

The Lamborghini SC20 Is One Of The Wildest Things They Have Ever Built And You Can’t Have It

(By Tom Lohnes) – Well, that thing is awesome. The Lamborghini SC20 is the perfect car to be unveiled in Winter with its lack of a windshield or roof, RWD, and V12. If you have a gold-plated,...

Watch This Stock Long Block Ford 7.3L Godzilla V8 Make 1100+ Horsepower With Twin Turbos

It’s almost impossible to conceive of an era where guys would pour every cent they had into an engine, employ every known speed trick and killer engineering theory to achieve 300hp. Right? I...

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Christmas Gift Are You Buying Yourself This Year?

I can say with no amount of uncertainty that expecting someone else to read my mind and know what I want for Christmas is a crapshoot at best. I don’t give hints, I hate asking for things, and...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Listen To This Conversation With Pro Stock World Champion Crew Chief Rick Jones

What does it take to go from a guy who was day dreaming about making a living as a chassis builder while back-halving his own race car 40 years ago to being a four time pro stock world champion crew...

Classic YouTube: Backyard Rallying With A Scaled-Down Ford Escort Mk1

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again, when sales are going strong, the Post Office is buried up to their neck in packages, and Santa is wearing his jolly elf mask as he delivers the...

Ride With Jim Pace As He Roars Around Daytona In A Porsche 962 And Narrates The Whole Experience Real Time

It’s still bizarrely sad to refer to Jim Pace in the past tense. The man who can and did drive everything was a staple for years here at BangShift because of the killer videos he was in like...

Not So Fast , Tubby: VW Cancels The I.D. Buggy But Continues With Production Plans For I.D. Buzz

(By Tom Lohnes) – One of Volkswagen’s lesser-known projects, the I.D Buggy was going to be my favorite vehicle they make. Well sadly that will no longer be because VW’s electric vehicle...

Time Is Running Short! Save Big At OPGI Right Now – It’s Holiday20 Time and More!

How that Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas is right around the corner, you know that the holiday deals are going to be flying. OPGI knows it as well and that is why you have a holeshot advantage...

Unreal: Watch A Brand New Toyota GR Yaris Bash Into The 12s In Australia – Turbocharged THREE Cylinder

So if you have not heard of the Toyota GR Yaris, don’t feel bad. This is a car that is not sold in the United States (yet) and is one of those, “why don’t we get the cool stuff,...

Clean, Mean, and Not Too Lean: This 1960 Buick Electra 225 Convertible Is The Huge Stump Puller You Never Knew You Wanted

This right here is an American automobile in the most pure sense of the word. 123-inch wheelbase, 225.9-inch total length, 62.2-inch tread width up front, 4,571 pounds of sculpted steel and that...

If You Don’t Believe That Anything Can Be A Race Car, Then Check Out The Tofu Drift Van

At one point in time a few years back Lohnes referred to me as “BangShift’s patron saint of automotive lost causes” in reference to the SuperBeater Dodge Mirada, and it’s...