The TRUTH About Oil Additives Revealed, With Real Test Results From The Motor Oil Geek

There are too many Oil Treatments and Additives to count nowadays, and many of them make claims that are hard to believe. Over the years there have been so many of them and while some have good...

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Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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How to Start a 1990s Formula 1 Engine: You Mean You Don’t Just Pump It Twice And Then Turn The Key?

I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of cool race engines over the years, and a handful of them have had very particular startup procedures. A Dodge NASCAR R5P7 for example that came...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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Morning Symphony: Ease Out Of The Turkey Coma With The Sounds Of Rally-Running Opels!

Raise your hands: how many of you ate way too much yesterday? Yeah, don’t feel too bad…we’re right there with ya. When the table is full and you’ve been waiting all day, your...

The 2018 Kia Stinger GT: A Kia That Might Actually Be Worth A Moment’s Glance

Kia Motors has long been a punchline in the United States market, and honestly, for good reason. Have you ever had the misfortune of being inside of a mid-1990s Sephia? I have no love for these...

Tenderized Turkey: This 1969 Hemi Charger Daytona Road Test On The Mount Tremblant Course In Canada Is All Time! This Hemi Gets Worked

Consider this the greatest muscle car road test video ever, even if your don’t know what the guy is saying. We got tipped off to this awesome film form 1969 by BangShift photo contributor...

2017 Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals Photo Coverage: More Sweet Cars From The Show

(Photos by Greg Rourke) – We’re back with more photos from the muscle car show to end all muscle car shows. The 2017 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals have once again continued on the...

We Remember Mel Tillis – He Ruled In The Original Cannonball Run Movie!

Mel Tillis had one hell of a run. By every single account we have read, the guy was loved by just about everyone that ever met him and his story of rising up to country music prominence is both heart...

2017 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals Coverage: The Best Muscle Car Show on Earth Gets Better

(By Greg Rourke) – It’s that time of year again, the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals (say “mickackin”) has arrived in Rosemont, Illinois.  As usual, hosts Bob and Vicki...

Ride With Jim Pace As He Hammers A 1963 Jaguar XKE Around Road Atlanta At Full Tilt

Now THIS is great. Jim Pace has always been our adopted road racing bad ass here at BangShift and some of the neatest road racing in-car videos on the internet star him and some truly rare iron. From...

Granddad’s Hot Rod: This Review Of The 1997 Buick Park Avenue Ultra Took Me Back 20 Years

My mom’s dad had been a Pontiac man for a long time before he bought what amounts to the identical car showed in this video. I remember he had a Parisienne followed by a Bonneville, and then it...

American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride In A L88 Corvette As It Rips Around The Daytona Road Course At Night

I’m going to give you the straight up warning here. This is pornographic. This video is going to cause a loss of blood to your extremities and likely cause you to make bad decisions. You have...

Watch This Classic Ford Escort RS2000 Mk1Fly Over A Jump And Suffer A Massive Wreck During A Finnish Rally (Driver and Co-Driver OK)

I have admitted my love for Mk1 Ford Escorts on these electronic pages before. I think their styling is awesome and they were used in all different forms of motorsports back in the day. The cars were...

The Hemi Car That Ate My Brain – This 1966 Plymouth Satellite Is Tops For Elephant Motor Fun

Everyone has their favorite variant of a Hemi car. For those with big bucks it is the E-body cars that draw them in because of their insane value and rarity. For those that want max street racer cred...

Crash And Burn: Helmet Cam Footage From The Fifteen-Car Pileup At The Nurburgring On An Open Day

The Nurburgring’s famous touristfarhten days draw people the world over for the chance to drive the monsterous Green Hell track for themselves. It’s a semi-open procedure that requires...

Unveiled: 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 – 755 Horsepower, 715 Ft/Lbs of Torque, And Tuned To Kill

(Photos: General Motors) The Corvette seems to always be working an uphill battle. It’s too plain. Too common. Not powerful enough. Not refined enough. Not threatening enough. 8/10ths of what...

HOONIGAN Daily Transmission: The Drift 1968 Camaro. We approve.

Drifting is a very polarizing motorsport. Many traditional motorsports participants and fans have issues with it because it is more subjective than a typical time based racing event. In truth, the...