Category Archive: BangShift News
Gearhead History: Name the First V8 Powered Car in America
You saw the title and laughed to yourself. Yep, you’re thinking that it’s something easy like the 1914 Cadillac or something along those lines. Well, you’re wrong. The first V8 car...
SCSN 13 Gallery: More Photos From The Big-Tire Bash In Vegas!
We are back with more action from the Street Car Super Nationals race in Las Vegas! The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway has been nothing but nasty, badass speed and even with cooler temperatures,...
Help Us Name Our New Square Body Crew Cab Dually Project!
I’ve wanted a Chevrolet Crew Cab Dually since I was a kid. Probably since I was 10 or so, since we’d see them at the races all the time pulling gooseneck trailers and looking bad ass. Of...
Gearhead School: This Video Is One Of The Best We Have Ever Seen About Pontiac Engines
If there is one family of engines that has likely triggered more gearhead arguments than any other it is probably the Pontiac brand. Because there’s not actual “big block” or...
This Video Of Big Rig Cold Starts Is Pretty Awesome – Lots Of These Big Engines Don’t Sound Happy!
(By Greg Rourke) – Yep, winter is rapidly closing in. The whole country is cooling this week, Chicago is forecast to have a high of about 30 on Sunday. It’s especially tough on diesel...
Rough Start: This Gambler 500-Proven Lexus Is Sensible And Wildly Irresponsible!
I grew up in a time where American cars weren’t cool to most of my peers. They spent their formative years listening to the bitching of their parents who got screwed over with Malaise-era...
SCSN 13 Gallery: Giving Las Vegas Something To Listen To!
Weren’t we just here, like, a week ago? I think so…some big to-do about parts and show cars and parties and celebrities and photography and yada, yada, yada. That was then. This is now....
BangShift Question Of The Day: Can You State EVERY 1960s Manufacturer’s Name For A Limited Slip Differential?
The 1960s were an amazing time for domestic auto manufacturers. Virtually everyone that was in the business was working at full speed to fill orders and meet demand levels from a country that was...
Listen to Jon Lundberg Announce Captain Jack McClure’s Rocket Kart at OCIR Circa 1973
For drag dweebs like us, the clip below is truly awesome. Not so much a video as it is an audio file, hitting play will transport you back to a night in 1973 at Orange County International Raceway...
BangShift Christmas Gift Review: The Haynes Visible V8 Engine – Should You Buy It? (W/Video)
(Video at bottom) – I had been wanting to do a model engine with my sons for a while before Christmas came and it was my wife that reminded me that every year I had been kicking myself for not...
AutoMeter Has Lost Their Minds – EVERYTHING Is on Sale – No Rebates, No BS, Just Cheap and Now!
The title isn’t kidding. We got word right from the top today that AutoMeter has launched a huge sale and this is not a rebate offer, or a contest, this is a sale and everything they make is up...
NHRA 2017 World Finals Stock/Super Stock Photo Bonanza: More Wheels Up Sportsman Fun!
(Photos by Wes Allison) – Can I be honest for a moment? I miss it. Last week at this time I was in the Pomona tower a-screamin’ and a-yelling about all the fun stuff that was happening...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Has Been Your Best Junkyard Find Or Buy?
Junkyards are the best. Hell, we get almost as excited going to the junkyard as we do going to the race track. Why? Because the treasure hunter/hoarder in us always believes that we find some cool...
Coming Up Short: This 1966 Chevy Nova Wagon Is Just A Wee Bit Altered…
There’s altered wheelbases, and then there’s this Tiny Tim Nova that reader Nicholas Triplett sent in for our consideration. We are pretty much on the same page when it comes to...