Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

Read more

Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

Read more

OUCH! Racing at Goodwood Doesn’t Always Go To Plan… This 1964 AC Cobra Found Out The Hard Way At The 83rd Members’ Meeting

If you think that historic races like the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival, and Members Meet are just for show, think again. I once talked to Vic and Cammie Edelbrock about their vintage road...

Read more

The American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is now LIVE! Save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit May 18-26!

That’s right folks, the American Powertrain Memorial Day Sale is on now through Tuesday the 26th, so if you want to save $150 off any 5 or 6 speed kit use the link below and tell them we sent...

Read more

EASILY Bend Rubber Hoses Without Kinking Them! Does The Hot Water Trick Actually Work Or Not?

I’ve heard about this trick a few times, but have never actually tried to form my own molded rubber hose using it. But this guy seems to suggest it is not only possible, but very very...

Read more

Remembering Our Friend Kyle Loftis – The Man Behind 1320video Will Be Missed More Than He Ever Realized

It has taken me several days to be able to post something like this on BANGshift. Posting it the day we found out about the loss of our great friend would have been the smart thing for page views and...

Read more

 

In the 1980s, Chuck Yeager Wanted You to Fasten Your Safety Belt and Drive a GM

You likely know Chuck Yeager from his aviation exploits, which are probably at or beyond those of just about any other human being. Not only was Yeager the first man to break the sound barrier in...

Aussie Budget Builds: Mighty Car Mods Pits Their Mitsubishi Lancer Against Their Re-Purchased Nissan 180SX

We can dig budget builds around here. Sometimes, you just have to play with the hand you are dealt and make the most out of what you’ve got. For Mighty Car Mods, that’s what this battle...

This 1982 Ford Mustang Is Set Up To Be A Riot On The Track…If You Like The Color Orange!

Oh, I like this. I like this a lot. For anyone who reads my ramblings, you might have picked up a theme I have specifically regarding Ford vehicles: I like them stripped, powerful, and purposeful....

USAC Champion Bryan Clauson, 27, Dies After Crash In Kansas Last Weekend

Oval-racing champion and Indianapolis 500 competitor Bryan Clauson has died on Sunday, August 7, following injuries sustained from a crash during the United States Auto Club’s (USAC) Belleville...

Watch As Matt Farah Scares The Hell Out Of Himself In A Mitsubishi 4G63-Powered Pontiac Fiero Track Rat!

I first watched this video this morning, and I’m still laughing…”Death Fiero”. Who in their right mind would be scared to death of a Pontiac Fiero? The little mid-engined car...

FOLLOWUP: Derrike Cope’s Explosion At Watkins Glen Was Simply A Tire Failure. Really!

When Derrike Cope’s Xfinity Series Chevrolet Camaro stock car exploded out of nowhere as the car was coasting on the straightaway near the “Bus Stop” kink at Watkins Glen on...

Watch Australian Legend John Bower Rip Through a Field of Vintage Muscle Cars

While he’s not a household name outside of Australia, John Bowe is one of the country’s living legends. Bowe won 15 V8 Supercar races, mostly in the 1990s, but his illustrious racing career also...

Watch This Road Racer Avoid a Tank-Slapping Supra By Inches

The Classic Sports Car Club (CSCC) in the United Kingdom hosts a whole ton of classes and their field for the “Future Classics” class includes a whole pile of sports cars from the 1970s and...

The Ridetech 48-Hour Corvette Just Keeps On Racing! And It Gets Faster All The Time.

The Ridetech 48-Hour Camaro and 48-Hour Corvette have taken on lives of their own. People stop with them all the time for pictures, tell stories about watching us build them live on the internet, and...

Driver’s OK, Car Sure Isn’t: Check Out Derrike Cope’s Unexplained Explosion From Watkins Glen!

If this doesn’t make it into a NASCAR Top 10 list somewhere this year, someone’s fired, because this is the strangest thing we’ve seen from roundy-round racing this year. During an...

This Formula V Has All The Right Looks And Would Look Bitchin At Home Or On Track

We’ve never driven a Formula V, but we’ve seen a lot of them. And this one may not actual be VW powered like the originals, in fact there are several Formula classes that have all kinds...

This Is What It’s Like To Run Around Circuit Of The Americas In A New Z28 Camaro

I’m heading to COTA, aka Circuit of the Americas, this weekend for Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car. And there is literally no way that I’m not going to make a lap or two...

This 1958 Buick Caballero Century Estate Wagon Is Complete And Ready To Lead A Second Life – Amazing Car

Of all the awesome, bold, and completely over the top styling work that Detroit cranked out though the 1950s one of the most beautiful and short-lived among them was the hardtop station wagon. Lots...

Goodness Gracious: Check Out The Story Of This Ford Shelby GT350 Fireball At Roebling Road!

This photo might be able to say a thousand words on the situation this Shelby GT350 is facing, but we have a good bet that a lot of those words are expletives. We got tipped off to photos of this...