Hoonicorn Meets Pikes Peak: Ken Block’s “Climbkhana” Unveiled To The Masses
I last worked on Pikes Peak in the summer of 2000. Yeah…for a few months, I was either the guy making donuts in the back, manning a cash register up front, or cleaning up things in the tourist...
Old School Brawl: Watch An E-Type Jag and A Cobra Battle At The Goodwood Revival
There’s road course action and then there’s an E-Type Jag and A Cobra hammering on each other corner after corner at the Goodwood Revival in England. This is one of the most fun and...
Watch This Turbocharged Hayabusa Engine Scream Make The Header Glow While Screaming Out Good Power At 10,000 RPM
For starters I know that the peak power that this combo is making is not what the thing is capable of and frankly the guys that posted the video do as well. They are ultimately shooting for 350hp out...
Watch This 1959 Thunderbird Carve Up Old English Cars At The Goodwood Revival
Mark the tape! This is me admitting that I am in love with a Ford Thunderbird built after 1957. My normal opinion on these cars (and by normal I mean a steadfast belief) is that Titanic adjacent...
Big Spenders: Lawsuit Reveals That Farmers Was Spending About $660,000 Per Race For NASCAR Sponsorship
Lawsuits have a funny way of bringing interesting stuff to light. In this case a lawsuit has brought to light the sponsorship agreement between Farmers Insurance and Hendrick Motorsports,...
Chrome and Coffee Coverage FromThe Iron Gate Motor Condos – Neat Stuff!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – A coupla two-three weeks ago Bob Chiluk took us on a photographic tour of the Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville, Illinois. I decided I needed to see it...
First Look: This 1963 Rambler American 440 Wagon Is Going To Be Sweet When Done, But We Got To See It Before It Went In For Paint!
The frenzy that is LS Fest is over and on my schedule, and in my world that means that the next major event I have to gear up for is SEMA in Las Vegas. I’m always looking forward to the week of...
Devil’s In The Details – Here’s The Story Behind The Challenger That Gets Towed And Crushed In The Original Gone In 60 Seconds
(By Greg Rourke) – I’ve always been amazed at how knowledgeable the Mopar guys are with their favored marque. “This was the only Fury III with a 2 barrel 318, with the AM radio set...
Our Holley LSFest 2017 Photo Coverage Continues With More Greatness From Bowling Green
McTaggart described Holley’s LSFest 2017 as a Five Ring Circus, and I think he might be forgetting a few rings. What amazes me about LSFest, is that even with everything going on, you can...
Money No Object: 1969 Camaro Z/28 Road Racer. Channel Your Inner Mark Donohue The Right Way!
Is there anything that screams “ring the RPMs and hit the apexes hard” quite like a road-race prepared first-gen Camaro on Minilites? If there is, I’m missing the point, because...
On Board With National Autocross Champion “Fast Mary” Pozzi, At LSFest, In The Ridetech 48 Hour Camaro
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Mary Pozzi, and her awesome husband Dave, for several years. That also means I have had the pleasure of watching Mary drive a ton of cars and have seen what she...
Not An LS Swap: How About A 5.0L Powered Subaru Impreza Drift Car?
Ok, we’ve been beating you over the head about LS this and that for a few days now. Surely there are more than a couple of you out there who could stand to have some relief from the Bowtie...
Four Minutes Of Sideways Greatness In A Hot Rod ’57 Chevy Truck On A Dirt Course In Sweden! (Video)
Over the years here at BangShift we have showed you some awesome videos of nordic hot rodders having fun. Guys in Sweden, Norway, and other countries in that neck of the planet know how to get down...
Shut Up, It’s A Great Idea: Does 400 Horsepower In A 1,500 Pound Street Kart With License Plates Sound Good To You?
The year before I graduated from university, I almost made a very interesting purchase: a tube-frame kart packing the 200 horsepower, 2.5L V6 from a Ford Contour SVT in a rear-mount setup. In...
