Category Archive: Craigslist Find, OTHER
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...
Blame The Cool Air: Watch This Twin-Turbocharged Chevy Nova Point At The Georgia Sky!
If you can still get onto a track this late in the year, there’s only one reason to even go: cold air, the colder, the better. All that hot and humid summertime air isn’t helping the...
BangShift Test Drive: 2016 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat – More Side Effects Than Prescription Medication
You need no introduction to what the top-tier model of the Dodge Charger line can be. The Hellcat legend is cemented…707 horsepower for the masses in cars that are the farthest cry from boredom...
BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Could Own ONE Famous Car Or Truck, Which One Would It Be?
This BangShift Question of the day should be good! I happened to be having a chat with my sons the other day and the topic of favorite cars/trucks came up (like it does every day). They asked me what...
Project Great Pumpkin Mustang: Floor Patching, Subframe Connectors, And More!
It’s been six months since we put up any kind of word on the Great Pumpkin, our 1980 Ford Mustang Ghia, and that’s actually a good thing for the most part. The car didn’t die and...
BangShift Tune-Up: “My Best Friend’s Girlfriend” by Nirvana (1994)
Recently, we ditched our satellite television service here at BangShift Mid-West and instead went all-internet entertainment, with one notable exception: a Bluetooth sound system for the house. We...