LS Fest Outtake: The Crunched Camaro That Was Still Going To Race
All Adam Prante wanted to do was to come down to Bowling Green and have a good time at the 2016 LS Fest with his late-model fifth-gen Camaro SS. Entered into the Grand Champion set of events, he had...
Drifting Action From Holley’s LS Fest Right Here! Tire Smoke And Carnage Baby
We’re not huge drifting fans here at BangShift.com, but we do have to admit that being sideways and smoking the tires is a good time no matter who you are. And the drifting action at...
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...
Welding Tech: Spot And Rosette Welds That Will Make Your Restoration Look Mint
Welding isn’t hard. Sure it takes practice, like anything you want to be good at, but a lot of the techniques and skills you need to weld on your hot rod or restoration project can be honed...
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...
Amazing Video: The 1952 NASCAR Daytona Beach Race Highlights With Full Color And Sound
…at least we think it is from the 1952 race as that’s what the title claims but we’re not 100% sure. That minutiae aside, the real story here is the quality, clarity, and straight...
Watch a Small Touring Car Crew Swap an Engine in Under Two Hours To Make Qualifying
Dutch racer Tom Coronel makes the rounds. Coronel and his brother, Tim, will race just about anything at any time, including the odd Dakar run. When he’s not hopping in a GT car or headed off road,...
The Daltonapolis 500 Is On For 2016! The Backyard Karting Brawl That Brings Out All The Stars Is On!
What if I told you there was a kart race, on a banked 1/9 mile dirt oval, in a backyard in California, that brought out champions from more than 20 dirt and asphalt racing series? It’s true....
This Audi Prototype Driver Celebrated His Birthday With Go-Kart Paintball!
Lucas Di Grassi just might become the first Brazilian with an overall win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Audi and he came up just short of his first series championship in Formula E this year. He’s...
Is AWD Best? Does RWD Have It’s Faults? Can FWD Be Fun? Let Randy Pobst Show You Handle All Three Drive Types On The Track!
My first autocross was in 2010 at Bremerton Raceway in Washington State. Back then, I owned a 2006 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, the one with the V8 up front, and I felt cocky as all hell…I could...
Cleetus McFarland Gets A Shot At A LS-Swapped Nissan 350Z At Beech Bend! Check Out The Shenanigans Here!
The Street Car Takeover at Beech Bend earlier this year was a wild event to cover…roll racing, drag racing, car shows, a burnout contest, all while I was near heat exhaustion. In short, it was...
A Brief History of the Short-Lived Chicago Motor Speedway
The American open-wheel split still has a number of unhealed scars among fans who felt slighted, but the upshot was a number of weird little nuggets of recent racing history. Among those is that of...
NSRA Streetkhana Action 2: More Cars, More Cones, More Cool Photos
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – More coverage from the NSRA StreetKhana. Mild to wild stuff in here. Lots of heavy hitters came out to show off and get folks interested in turning...
Morning Symphony: Testing A Brand-New Citroen C3 WRC On The Road!
Right here is the dream job none of us even knew to ask for when we were growing up. Firefighter? Cop? Photographer for lingerie models? Nope, you can keep all of that…at no point did I know to...
