Author Archive: Eric Rood
This Race-Winning Mountain Bike Run Is Too Crazy Not To Share
I know BangShift is supposed to be all about motorized transportation, but sometimes you just find an event so incredible that it surely has some appeal to gearheads. I’m not a particularly crazed...
Crazy: Watch This Enormous RC Jet Fighter Disintegrate In Midair
The world of radio-control airplanes can be pretty insane. While I personally don’t know a whole lot about the technical side of things, people have started to build some really large RC replicas...
Meet the Man Behind the Incredible Elgin Park Miniatures Photography
There’s a good chance you’ve seen Michael Paul Smith’s photographs of mid-century cars. There’s also a good chance that you’ve seen Michael Paul Smith’s photographs of mid-century cars...
Rallying On the Cheap: These Ugandan Drivers Race On Tight Budgets
Few people think of Africa as home to motorsports. Outside of the Paris-to-Dakar Rally and the Kyalami Circuit in South Africa, most people probably think the entire continent is barren of racing....
Would You Rather, Malaise Era Drag Rollers Edition: ’75 AMC Hornet or ’79 Dodge Aspen?
If you’ve been around street-strip drag racing at all over the last few years, you probably already are thinking about where you’re going to find a GM LS engine—Hell, you might have a couple in...
Sand Drags In Iceland Have a Bit of Everything, Including a Third-Gen Camaro!
Based solely on the country’s name, Iceland is unlikely to be a country you’d expect to find sand drags. However, the country has an off-road racing club that dates back to the mid-1970s and they...
Watch This Nissan GT-R Get Take a Flying Leap When It Gets Bumped Mid-Corner
We’ve heard so much for many years about the Launch Control option on Nissan’s GT-R, but I don’t think this what they had in mind. At last year’s Pirelli World Challenge race at Sonoma...
Race Everything! Watch a Latvian Drag Race Between a Soviet-Built ZAZ and a Classic Mini
Bikernieki Race Track isn’t particularly well-known internationally, nor is the drag racing scene in Latvia, but we’re equal-opportunity race fans here at BangShift. If there’s a place in the...
This Modified Eldorado Looks Angry, But Does It Have Bite To Its Bark? [Probably Not]
Before they introduced the CTS-V in 2004, no one could ever accuse Cadillac of building an aggressively styled car. And while this 1991 Eldorado “GT” likely isn’t really a performance car with...
You Can Buy This Rare Dutch Sports Car On CraigsList
In the last two decades, the Dutch have made a couple of bids to enter the sports car realm. The first came from Spyker, a firm that built high-performance sports cars and even competed in Formula 1...
BangShift’s Class-By-Class Preview of Hot Rod Drag Week 2016
Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is the most intense form of street-car racing in the world. The competition pits street cars, some of which really push the boundaries of that phrase, to run...
Watch 9-Time Le Mans Winner Tom Kristensen Absolutely Cane a Priceless Ferrari at Goodwood
The Goodwood Road & Racing provides possibly the world’s most visible venue for racing priceless antiquities. While there were so many great moments from last weekend’s racing at the Goodwood...
This Uber-Retro, Mini Japanese-Market Panel Van Is For Sale Stateside
In the U.S., Ford’s Transit Connect seems a bit small for a delivery and utility van, but as always seems to be the case, the Japanese have gone considerably smaller and have done so more than a...
Here’s A Reminder That America Briefly Had a Great Touring Car Series in the 1990s
The Super Touring years of touring cars, particularly in the British Touring Car Championship, are often considered the golden era of production-based tin-top racing. The rules were simple and...