Watch Don Garlits Break The 270-MPH Barrier And Then Win The 1986 Gatornationals – Mechanical Drama, Too!
You had to have known this one would show up at some point during the week, right? The 1986 Gatornationals had plenty of great moments but if we are looking for the legitimately awesome history it...
Mighty Car Mods Electric Turd Does Burnouts
The Mighty Car Mods guys do a lot of funny stuff, but when they rebuilt the Electric Turd, we had to laugh. When it ran out of juice because their used batteries took a crap, I had to laugh again. In...
Watch The Congressional Hearing About The Proposed EPA Regulations And The RPM Bill That Fights Them
This is certainly the first time and we’re kind of hoping it will be the last when we post a video link to a congressional hearing around here but it is also the first time we have been engaged...
What The Hell, Man!? Video From IndyCar Wild Season Opener In St. Petersburg, Forida
(By Eric Rood) – IndyCar season is underway and the season-opener on the streets of St. Petersburg proved an affirmation that races on temporary street circuits bring out some weird...
Ride Onboard A Legends Car As It Tracks Around Las Vegas Motor Speedway!
Legends racers are neat little screamers. What doesn’t sound fun about running a 5/8ths scale 1930s or 1940s car powered by a Yamaha bike engine running around a road course? Far as we are...
Maximim Mini! Ride Along As This Vintage Mini Runs 156mph With A Crazily Hot Rodded Sub One Liter Engine At Bonneville
(By Eric Rood) – We’ve missed Bonneville the last couple years with the well-publicized problems of salt and poor weather, but suffice to say that if we can manage to squeeze in Speed Week...
Make Your Garage Great Again: This Ad For A 1982 Pontiac Trans Am Is The Best Craigslist Listing Ever
Our own Eric Rood passed this one up the chain and when I read it I knew that every BangShifter worth his or her salt would love it. Taking into account the current political scene in this country,...
Is This The Greatest Crash Testing Failure Of All Time? Watch A Holden Fold Like An Accordion
While new cars are filled with all kinds of bells and whistles and hardcore guys may not necessarily want because they add weight and complexity, there is one undeniable fact about modern automotive...
Ride Along In A Racing Ferrari 458 GT3 As It Blows A Tire And Spins At 175mph And Hits…Nothing!
It’s not every day that you spin a $350,000 Ferrari at 175 mph and the only things that need replacing are a tire and your underwear. For Australian sports car racer Liam Talbot, a tire failure...
Ride Along Over The Shoulder Of A USAC Silver Crown Driver As He Hauls Sideways Around A Dirt Oval During Race Practice
The formula for a USCA Silver Crown car is pretty simple if we break it down to the total root and that is essentially this. Take a sprint car chassis, install a NASCAR engine in it and go have fun...
Incredible Wreckage: Watch The Disastrous Start To A GT Class Road Race In Germany
Wickam tipped us off to this one and it is a doozy. The footage comes from the Oschersleben race course in Germany where a road racing event was being held. The cars are all flipping awesome with a...
eBay Find: This 1963 Buick Wildcat Is Pure, Classy, 1960s Perfection – Amazing Car
In the 1960s, Buicks were aspirational cars. GM’s tiered branding had people come in on one end of the scale as a young buyer and by the time they were an established, successful adult they...
This 1964 Video Featuring The Early GT40 Is Spectacular – Sound And All!
The Ford GT40 is one of the most iconic race cars of the 20th century. Born out of spite when Enzo Ferrari rebuffed Ford’s attempt to buy his company, the mighty guns of Dearborn took aim at...
An All-Tesla Racing Series? It’s Called The Electric GT Series, And It’s Coming Soon!
It was almost inevitable that sooner or later there would be Teslas racing professionally, but we did not see this coming. Dubbed the Electric GT World Series, the intent is to become the first 100%...
