The RideTech Brigade: A Look At Some Of The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Competitors Underpinned By RideTech Components
(Competitor descriptions by Rodney Prouty – Photo credit: Ridetech and Popular Hot Rodding) – In about one week, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be transformed into ground zero for the...
Project Violent Valiant SEMA 2014 Thrash: The Final Prep Before The World Sees This Angry Mopar!
It was EXACTLY one year ago today when we showed the body of what has not become Project Violent Valiant getting sand blasted and prepped before being sent back to Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle for Kevin...
The Incredible Jet-Hot Double Down By Fuller Hot Rods Heads To SEMA 2014 With 800+ Kurt Urban Boss Ford Horsepower
(Photos by Bryan Fuller/Kurt Urban) – Last year at SEMA we freaked out about the Jet Hot Double Down 1932 Ford which was under construction at Bryan Fuller Hot Rods. The car was on the show...
The Atomic EFI Age: Or What Project Buford T Justice Did On His Summer Vacation – Driveway EFI Install
Claims of Project Buford T Justice’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, although I have not done a lot of quell them because of a lack of suitable update stories this summer, but the fact is...
What’s Better Than Nurburgring Crashes? Nurburgring AND Rally Crashes In The Same Video!
The Green Hell that is the Nurburgring Nordschliefe is a dangerous track, as we’ve shown numerous times before. And from the early days of racing up until today, it is a track that even pro...
Hotchkis Autocross Action From NMCA West At Fontana – Muscle Cars of All Shapes And Sizes Attack The Cones
When it was all said and done at the Hotchkis Autocross last weekend, there were lots of tired arms, hot tires, and smiling faces among the group of people who took on the winding and tricky course...
More Bad F1 News: The Marussia Team Has Filed For Bankruptcy
Fresh on the heels of Caterham Sports, Ltd.’s dive into administration four days ago, Marussia has declared bankruptcy, putting the cherry on top of a cake nobody wants to take a bite out of....
The Hotchkis Autocross Was Burning Up The Pavement At NMCA West Fontana Last Weekend – Action Photos Here!
The Hotchkis Autocross as last weekend’s NMCA West event in Fontana, California was absolutely rocking. This thing showed off all that is right and good with the world of high performance...
RideTech Featuring Tech Q&A With Ron Sutton At Their SEMA Booth – He’ll Answer YOUR Suspension Questions Face To Face!
SEMA has always been a place to see and be seen. Between the new parts, the flashy display cars, and the big stars walking around, it is all about making an impact. Leave it to RideTech to find a way...
Questionable Ownership, Poor Results, Seizures and Investigations: The Downward Spiral Of The Caterham F1 Team
Formula 1 racing is serious business. Dollar amounts that rival a small country’s GDP numbers are spent in testing, training and racing, and similarly large numbers come in due to advertising,...
Copart Cadavers: A Collection Of Catastrophically Destroyed Corvettes
It is official! You twisted maniacs that read BangShift really dig the “Copart Cadavers” series and that means I will continue to comb the depths of the massive Copart website for the...
Funny Videos: Doing it Wrong But Oh So Right on the Autocross
Make no mistake, we are not mocking the dudes in the videos below. After all we’re totally about having fun with our cars and the guys in the videos are doing just that. What you’ll see...
This 1966 Wolseley Hornet MKII Is A Factory Spruced Up Mini And We Think It Needs To Be Hot Rodded
We love trolling the eBay “other makes” listings because undoubtedly we’ll see something we have never heard of, dreamed of, or knew about before. In this case, the car is called a...
In 1964 Ford Built A Shorty Two Seater Mustang Show Car – The Story Of How It Avoided The Crusher And Who Owns It Now Is Greatness
Ford has done a really good job in 2014 telling all kinds of great Mustang stories. The 50th anniversary of the car has been handled with amazing prowess by the company from the way they interacted...
