Author Archive: Chad Reynolds
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Road Course Would You Most Like To Make Laps On?
After attending the Long Beach Grand Prix this weekend, and having driven on or visited amazingly famous road courses all over the world, it struck me that there are still a ton of them I want to...
F’ing Epic Video: Jumping A Driverless Ford Pickup Off A Cliff
OH MY GOD!!!! This is awesome. If it wasn’t cell phone video it would be slightly cooler, but only a little. Take two dudes, one Ford truck, copious amounts of gumption, and some ingenuity, and...
Video: Driving Test Hidden Camera. What This Kid Puts His Instructors Through Rules
Yesterday Brian’s BangShift Question of the Day was asking what was the first thing you ever drove. In honor of that, I found this funny video of a kid giving his driving instructors fits. He...
Video: Big Hemi Wheelstand During Qualifying For 2013 NHRA 4-Wide Nationals
The NHRA is in Charlotte this weekend, for the NHRA Dollar General 4-Wide Nationals at ZMax Dragway, and while we dig watching our friends in the Fuel cars and Pro Stock, it’s Stock and Super...
Video: Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel On Goodguys TV
Check it out. BangShift sponsor and dude of dudes Bret Voelkel was interviewed at the Goodguys Del Mar Nationals a couple weeks ago, and here is the video. He talks about autocross, racing the Lambo...
Funny Car News: Auto Club Famoso Raceway and Boise’s Firebird Raceway Create AA/Funny Car “Blitz” Series
Our pal Darr Hawthorne just sent us this announcement about a great new 4 race series that is being put on by Auto Club Famoso Raceway and Boise’s Firebird Raceway. All the details are in this...
Craigslist Find: A Bitchin ’65 Chevy Push Truck That Has BangShift History
This ’65 Chevy Pickup is one cool push truck. Plus, it has a chassis and suspension that is just a little out of the norm, but with reliability that makes this the perfect daily driver hot rod....
PowerShift: LIVE Tonight With Chad And Brian. The Would You Drive It Game, What’s Hot, What’s Not, And More!
Join us tonight, and every Thursday night at 6pm pst/9pm est, for PowerShift. The LIVE Show like none other. Chad and Brian will be live from places unknown, talking about what’s hot,...
Craigslist Find: The Ultimate Off Road RV – 1985 TATRA T-815 Czech Built Military 8×8
Brian is going to lose his mind over this one. It’s a 1985 Tatra T-815 Czech Built Military 8×8 that has been partially converted into an RV or exploration vehicle. It was supposedly...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Would You Drive It? A Blown Nash Metropolitan
The guys at Comp Cams pulled this photo off of Competition Plus, and asked the question whether or not you would drive it. And so we are stealing their question for use here as the BangShift Question...
Killer Wheelie Bar Breaking 4 Wheels Off The Ground ’69 Camaro Photo Thanks To AutoMeter
We are always commenting on how cool the guys at AutoMeter are, and the fact that they always seem to run really cool photos on their Facebook page. In fact most of the BangShift.com sponsors are...
Drag Race Photos: 2013 West Coast Hot Rod Association Season Opener Photos
Thanks to Jason Wilcox over at TCI, we’ve got some cool photos from the 2013 West Coast Hot Rod Association season opener at Famoso. Since the West Coast Hot Rod Association’s inception,...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Car Wash” by Rose Royce (1976)
As the theme song for the 1976 movie Car Wash, and the lead single on the soundtrack, this song would reach #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts. As a kid I remember this one for sure, and it always makes...
Caption This Photo: Uuhhhhhh I Don’t Even Know What Else to Say. Just Caption It.
We’re not sure what Mike Cook Jr. is doing right here, but everyone else on the team appears to be working. Either that, or none of the rest of the Dark Horse 2 crew wants to know either....