Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
Video: Garbage Truck Eats Car! Check Out How Easy This Is!
Some of the machines they use at wrecking yards and scrap yards around the world are insanely powerful so that they can tear up anything that comes in for recycling, but what you may not realize is ...
Video: New All Electric Taxi Cabs In New York? One More Nail In The Crown Vics Coffin
When Ford announced they would no longer be producing rear wheel drive Crown Victorias for Police or Taxi companies, another U.S. rear wheel drive platform died. And since then there have been...
Craigslist Find: A UNIMOG Who’s Life’s Work Was For The German Army. We’d Make A Motorhome Out Of It!
We have always though Unimogs were cool. With ultra flexible gearing, extreme ground clearance, tractor like simplicity and flexibility, plus a go anywhere attitude that won’t quit, they have...
FREE LIVE AUTOCROSS: All Day Saturday From The So Cal Challenge In Costa Mesa
The guys at BlackInkMedia are at it again this weekend with yet another SoCal Challenge event this weekend. BangShift’s Chad Reynolds will be on site announcing and broadcasting live so that...
Video: Monterey Historics At Laguna Seca Highlights
We’ve never been able to go to the Monterey Historics race at Laguna Seca in Monterey, even when we lived close by. It’s just always been on a weekend where something else was going on,...
Craigslist Find: A Never Titled Or Registered 1969 SS Camaro With Racing History
Robert Martin at MSD found this one yesterday and sent it over saying that this one was rare. You think? Hell yes it’s rare! Who else has a ’69 Camaro SS that has never been titled or...
Video: Dick Johnson, Tearing It Up At Bathurst 1983. Listen To The Clevelan Scream.
This is one of those videos that you just want to watch over and over again. At the famed Mt. Panorama in Bathurst Australia, this is one hell of a race track. At the end of the video Dick wads this...
Blind Man Sets Record At Bonneville! On A Motorcycle No Less
Former Pro Mod racer Dan Parker, who lost his sight during a horrific crash behind the wheel of his Corvette Pro Mod car in early 2012, has entered the record books on the Bonneville Salt Flats....
Dyno Video: Watch The Wally’s World GTO Make 450 At The Tire Thanks To COMP, Land Speed, And Dynatech
When Wally sent me the video of his car on the chassis dyno making pulls, he told me it gave him lumber. We don’t blame him! This little GTO went from making 333 horsepower and 330 pound feet...
eBay Find: Mike Mitchell “The World’s Fastest Hippie” Funny Car Hauling Ramp Truck
This is a super cool find, and has great history. Someone needs to buy this and then haul their Nostalgia Funny Car to Famoso on it. That would rule. We want this one bad. It’s Mike...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Worst Auto Parts Store Add On?
When we ran the blog item yesterday with the photo of the super cool Ute from Australia, the comments were mostly favorable, but Matt Cramer from DIYAutoTune made one interesting observation. He said...
AutoMeter, And Everyone With A Soul, Have Answered Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day.
The dudes at AutoMeter are always putting up great photos on their Facebook page, and quite often some of the best captions ever. This one was up on their Facebook page yesterday and made us laugh so...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Ignition” Brian Setzer ’68 Comeback Special (2001)
Brian Setzer is a bad ass. He always has been whether as the front man for the Stray Cats, Brian Setzer Orchestra, or on his own. The Brian Setzer ’68 Comeback Special along with Bernie Dresel...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Performance Or Styling Package Do You Want The Big Three To Offer?
Yesterday Brian asked you what car model you would erase from automotive history if you could, which got me thinking. Instead of the negative, what about the positive? If you could bring back, OR...