Here Is The COMPLETE First Timer’s Guide To Bonneville Speed Week!
We’re talking EVERY detail! Thanks to the folks at TheBonnevilleSaltFlats.com, you can find everything you need to know before coming to Bonneville Speed Week for the first time. It is all on...
Welding Aluminum The Right Way: How To Make It Easy, Pretty, And Strong
Stacking dimes, laying down a bead, whatever you call it, a pretty weld is a weld to be proud of. As longs as it is at least as strong as it is good looking. The skills and techniques used to get...
Originality Is Only Skin Deep: Aaron Oberle’s 1965 Chevelle Is Pro Touring Perfection
(Words and Photos by Steve Chryssos and Ridetech) Editor’s Note: Aaron Oberle is a bad ass and so is this bitchin Chevelle of his. We’ve been lucky enough to spend time with him and the...
Funny Video: This Is What Happens When You Attempt To Autocross A Tiny, Three Wheeler BMW Isetta
There are certain things in the automotive world that we hold as self evident. The first is that performance cars have four wheels. Call us stodgy, traditionalist, resistant to change, respectful of...
Video and The History Of Duke Nalon’s Rocket Assisted 1940s Indy Car Are Amazing!
Just ahead of the 1946 Indy 500, Chicagoan Duke Nalon did what any sensible racer would do to pull an extra few miles per hour from his race car: He strapped a 40-pound solid fuel rocket to it....
One-Family Owned Masterpiece: This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Ignited A Passion!
Maybe Ralph Nader was genuinely trying to save humanity from a mechanical demon that was flawed. History has shown that the first generation Chevrolet Corvair did indeed have handling issues that...
Twin Engines, All-Wheel Drive, And 1600 Horsepower. Insane Is Rad And We Love It!
Big power and all-wheel drive is nothing new, but twin engines that allow each end of the car to work together OR independently, means that each end can do it’s own burnout! Yeah, this thing...
Morning Symphony: Gene Felton’s IMSA Chevrolet Nova At Road Atlanta
Gene Felton is not a guy you’d want to line up with on a road course anywhere. The gentleman can wheel pretty much whatever you put him in, though he’s done fantastic work in IMSA in the...
Classic YouTube: Car And Track’s Review Of The 1969 Avanti II – Of Course A Blown 327 Was Going To Be Fun!
Studebaker had been dead for three years when this Car and Track test took place. The car, an Avanti II, had roots that dated back to 1962 and had been in and out of production…Studebaker...
The Swan Song: The Corvette ZR1 Is The Final Form Of The C7 Platform
The ZR1 is the final form of the C7 Corvette. GM admits this freely, though they won’t say squat about what’s coming down the pike. (The tours through Bowling Green Assembly are still a...
Morning Symphony: The 1987 Volkswagen Golf II – Double The Engines, Double The Fun!
Picture this: it’s 1987, and Pikes Peak is coming up quickly. Everybody and their mother is running recently orphaned Group B rally cars. The mountain still has dirt stages, drivers have more...
Rough Start: First Gen RX-7, Small-Block Chevrolet, Together For Well Under Budget!
Do you like the idea of racing at all? Of course, you must…you’re reading a story on BangShift, so there has to be some kind of racing you’re into. Surely you like drag racing,...
Amateur Hour Done Right: Spectator Drags From Beech Ridge, Doorhandle To Doorhandle!
Normally, the idea of spectator drag racing in our heads involves a small asphalt circle track, a motley crew of machines, and an announcer that sounds like Lohnes after a few beers in his system,...
