Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos
Hitting The Trails Of Nova Scotia With A Murray Lawn Mower Prepped For The Rough Stuff
As a kid, I envied any friend of mine whose parents owned a riding mower. It seemed like the perfect trade-off: I get to learn how to control a motorized, four-wheeled device and be helpful around...
Rough Start: Atoning For Our Sins With A Budget F-Body
I killed a fourth-gen Camaro. It wasn’t a pretty process, it wasn’t a quick and painless death. I ragged the living hell out of the car as if it was an Avis rental under somebody...
Ever Wonder How The Designers See A Car As It Goes From Sketch To Sales Floor? Check Out This Take On The 1991 Chevrolet Caprice’s Gestation!
Automotive design intrigues me. Creating a car that is supposed to sell in volumes that justify the expense of creation that contain enough emotional elements to attract buyers is a very strange...
Your Morning Wake-Up Call: This 1969 Shelby GT500’s 427 Side-Oiler Punishes The Dyno
Chrysler had the Street Hemi, Chevrolet had the Mark IV big-block series, and Ford has their FE 427s. All of these motors appeared as race-only pieces, but by the end of the muscle car era, would be...
Wanderlust Wagon: This 2007 Ford E-350 Quigley Conversion Van Is Perfect To Get Away From The Holiday Noise
Holiday music, shopping, relatives, more holiday music, and more shopping. It’s the beginning of the end of the year, and chances are good that your blood pressure is climbing and if you hear...
BangShift Goes Racing: We Dual-Wield Two Beaters At The 2017 King Of The Heap Race At NCM Motorsports Park!
Ever since it was announced, I’ve been looking forward to NCM Motorsports Park’s King Of The Heap racing series for one reason or another. I wanted to throw a team together…that...
Sleeper Concept: The LSJ-Swapped Chevrolet Cavalier
LS-swap the Cavalier. Hmm…sounds like a worthy challenge, doesn’t it? We’re all about RWD swaps at BangShift, and a V8 Cavalier would be a kick in the ass, no doubt. But...
That Fine Print Hurts: Ford Is Suing John Cena For Flipping His Ford GT
John Cena was one of the chosen to purchase the new Ford GT. No shock there…the supercar comes with a price tag that can get you a decent house and Ford, instead of selling them directly,...
Chasin’ Waterfalls: The Waterfall At Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park Gets Challenged!
If you don’t know who or what Busted Knuckle is, and you’re into off-roading at all, you need to get that fixed. These are the guys behind a lot of the rockbouncer videos we have shown...
You Can Choose One Vehicle That You’ve Never Driven Before, What Do You Choose?
On Facebook some idiot always posts questions asking whether you have ridden in certain iconic cars. The most recent was a VW Beetle. It got us thinking about a couple things. First, that if you...
The Cleaned-Up Blue Collar Worker: This 1986 Ford F-350 Wrecker Is Day One Fresh!
I cannot wait for Lohnes to see this gem of a find. I can’t. We all know how Brian loves his trucks: big, stripped down, work-ready and utilitarian. That’s why he owns Brutus the wrecker,...
They’re Going Fast: Six Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawks Were Stolen From The Plant Parking Lot!
The amount of gumption needed to break into an auto manufacturer’s holding lot to steal six brand-new, highly recognizable and desirable examples of a potent SUV is mind-blowing. But it’s...
This Is The Very Last Camaro Built At The Norwood Ohio Plant That Built So Many
(Words and Photos by Bob Chiluk) Van Nuys California and Norwood Ohio have always been known as the two plants where the first three generations of Camaros were built. It turns out that Norwood built...
