Anything Can Be A Racecar If You’re Brave Enough, Like This Chrysler Crossfire!
The Chrysler Crossfire…oh, lord, here we go. Where do you start, the Daimler-Chrysler merger, the fact that it’s a re-skinned Mercedes SLK that has one of the most unfortunate rear ends...
Random Car Review: The Toyota 222D, A Stillborn Group B Rally Response From Toyota
We give lots of love to Group B rally cars here because they were, at the time, the pinnacle of engineering insanity, and because of homologation requirements, a certain amount of street-going...
Unhinged: Hyundai RM-19 – Embrace The Wild Past Already And Reap The Rewards
To date, one of my favorite pieces I’ve ever written for BangShift was the review of the Kia Stinger GT. The summary of the deal: Kia built a car that could legitimately take on a 5.7L powered...
Classic YouTube: Emerson Fittipaldi at Interlagos in a Ford Maverick
Before it was renamed “Autódromo José Carlos Pace” in 1977 following the death of the Brazillian Formula One driver, it was known as “Interlagos” (“between the...
Best of 2019: Ken Block’s Gymkhana Favorite Moves Throughout The Years
I had heard about the Gymkhana video during my second deployment. I heard about it for a month or so…one of my soldiers came back from his vacation to the States and was just about exploding,...
Best of 2019: For Those Morning When You Need A Jolt, How About A Road Racing Rotary?
It’s a bit difficult to see how Mazda is making a rotary engine the prime component in a hybrid EV program. They are, it’s coming in a couple of years, but it’s not what...
Moist Turkey: Rooster Tails And Race Cars From The Imola Classic!
Racing in rainy conditions presents unique hazards to road-course racers. A wet track naturally has less grip to offer, and adds the danger of hydroplaning to what is already a challenging driving...
Screaming Turkey: Take A Ride In A Roaring C1 Corvette Racer On The Banks Of Daytona – 360 Degree Camera Bonus Fun!
We live in interesting times. Not just because of the craziness that happens in the world around us each and every minute of every day but rather because we can take things that are olden awesome and...
Learned Turkey: Stardust International Raceway – Motorsports Meets The Mob In Vegas, 1965-1971
When one combines the topics of 1960s motorsports, politics, the mafia, and the formation of what we now know as modern Las Vegas into one 492 page book, a reader’s expectations are going to be...
2019 Riyadh Global Auto Salon: Our First Load of Images From This Incomprehensible Event
(Photos by the author) – Directly following the NHRA Finals in Pomona, California and the awards evening on Monday night, I flew to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to attend the 2019 Riyadh Global Auto...
Brains Over Bucks: Remembering Mickey Nickos One of Open Wheel Racing’s Greatest Modern Engine Builders
(Image from Nickos family archive) – It is so rare when we run across people brilliant enough in racing to overcome massive financial shortcomings with the power of their own ability, which is...
Found: This 1932 Ford Truck Is An Old School California Hot Rod That Likely Hauled Stuff To Bonneville!
There’s always something cool about an old truck but this 1932 ford is an old school California hot rod and likely has ties to the Bonneville Salt Flats judging by the windshield! The seller...
50 Year Celebration: This Neat Video Shows Us All 50 Years Of Nissan GT-R Examples On The Track At Once
Gearheads love heritage and they typically love history, especially when it is tied into their favorite model of car. In the case of Nissan performance fans, no machine has loomed or will ever loom...
Morning Symphony: The Wildest Moments From WRC 2019
The only way you can under-rate rally driving is to have never, ever seen rally driving actually performed. Even the slower, tamer classes can get buck wild, and the full-on WRC cars are the...
