Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
If You Liked Yesterday’s Optima Ultimate Street Car Road Course Photos, You’ll Love These
Yesterday we shared our first batch of Road Course action photos from this year’s Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Las Vegas, and we decided we should share even more today. Like...
Watch The Rollcage For Roll Golf 2.0 Go Together. This Is How You Flip A Car The Right Way
If you don’t know what Roll Golf is then you need to watch this video, and then watch the others on YouTube, because Roll Golf is a riot. After all, who doesn’t want to flip a car, over...
You Wouldn’t Think Anyone Could Flog A 300SL Like This, But This Guy Can!
When BANGshifter Jason Mills sent us the link to this video, and told us “I just saw this and I think it is the best sounding inline 6 ever.. AND the dude can and does flog the 300SL! (Now I...
Dino’s Gitdown 2017 Is GM Truck Heaven. Thank The Grinder TV Guys For Killer Coverage
We’ve never gotten to go to Dino’s Gitdown, because we’re always doing something else that weekend, but man we wish we had this year. If you are into GM trucks, and like them all...
How To Build The Ultimate Welding Table, Without Reinventing The Wheel
We’ve seen a lot of cool welding tables, and have owned a few of them ourselves, but man they can be a pain to build, manage, and keep. It sounds funny to say you have to “manage” a...
More Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Road Course Photos Right Here
Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car Series is a riot to watch and to participate in, but the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational is the original and the grand daddy of them all. We...
This Procharged Pro Street 1973 C10 Chevy Looks Like It Will Haul Ass
If you want to go really quick at the drags, a truck is not usually the right choice. After all, they weigh a lot, have zero aerodynamic advantage, and are so big they sometimes are hard to haul...
This Turbocharged Mini Reminds Us Of Project Binky A Bit And Totally Turns Us On
You can say you are a Chevrolet guy or a Ford guy or a Jaguar guy or whatever, but there are some universally cool cars that everyone seems to love regardless of what their favorite brand might be....
If We Were Shopping For A New Body Style Dually, And Had A $15,000 Budget, This Would Be Our Jam
Anybody that reads BANGshift.com on a regular basis knows that we love Crew Cab Duallies around here, and that we’re pretty excited about them regardless of what year. With that said, we do...
If Viper’s Came Like This The Line To Buy One Would Look Like Walmart On Black Friday
I’ll admit, I am NOT a Viper fan in the grand scheme things. Well at all really. I’ve never been a fan of the V10 since stock it sounds like a UPS truck and it’s so small. I mean if...
We’ve Got More Street Car Super Nationals Action Photos Right Here. Enjoy!
Street Car Super Nationals 13 is done, the Champions have been crowned, and The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is quiet. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have a tons of photos left to...
This Big Rig Pulling Truck Launches The Entire Engine Out Of The Truck!
(Lead photo from Jacked Up Motorsports FB page) We’re talking the ENTIRE ENGINE!!! The force required to actually have an engine remove itself is not measurable using the high tech devices we...
Will NHRA Need A New Home For The Winternationals And Finals? City Of Pomona May Limit Activities At The Fairplex
The future of NHRA Drag Racing in Southern California may be in jeopardy, or at least that’s the feeling around SoCal since a story in the Inland Empire Daily Bulletin came out this week...
The 50th Running Of The Baja 1000 Finished Today. Here Are The Results And Some Interesting Quotes
The Baja 1000 remains one of the coolest automotive racing events I’ve ever attended, and it pains me that I haven’t been able to go see it again for several years because it happens to...