Category Archive: BangShift News
Book Review: The Reckoning
This book is a commitment. The version we read sat about four inches thick and came in at about 800 pages. It’s The Reckoning by David Halberstam, a book that parallels two companies, Ford and...
2009 SEMA Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
The SEMA Hall of Fame is the Cooperstown of Hot Rodding and the automotive hobby. Every year they induct a small class of new members and recently this year’s class was announced by SEMA. See...
The Lohnes Wreck File: The Altered-Crushing Dragster
You’ve always got to be paying attention at the track, even during the times where it seems nothing could possibly go wrong, like in the staging lanes. One racer got way too good a look at a...
Barnstormin’: Racing and Drugs are a Bad Combo
With the recent news of NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield failing a random drug test, it has brought to light a debate among racing fans, journalists, and competitors about the merits of drug testing in...
Inglese Can Service Your Webers
Got a trick looking old multi-Weber induction system on your hot rod? Does it run like junk? There’s no excuse to suffer any longer as Inglése will gladly take your entire unit and...
It Came From the Fab Shop: Tools Even Better Than Hammers
(By Loren Krussow) – If you’re anything like me, the first time you took a hammer to a piece of sheetmetal intending to make something out of it you were a little miffed at the result....
eBay Pick of the Week: A Three-Door 1965 VW Bug
This is one of those cars that catches your eye for a second, and just when you are about to move onto the next thing, you can’t. The seller claims that this is the only three-door Bug in the...
Top Fuel Rotary Engine!
We’ve got to thank our buddy Jon for the tip, because this is something we never would have never thought of or looked for. It’s the homepage of a team of racers who plan to run a...
Monday Time Killer: All About McCulloch Superchargers
McCulloch superchargers rank among the coolest of old speed parts. Best known for their factory efforts on cars like the Thunderbird, some Studebakers, and even some Kaiser models, these blowers were...
Kruse Auction Controversy in Arizona
The Arizona Daily Star newspaper ran a story late last week about people who had sold collectible cars at a Kruse auction in Tucson. In the story, people who sold stuff weeks ago claim that Kruse...
Set your DVR for the Drag Racing Hall of Fame
Fans of Drag Racing history will want to make sure they are tuned in, or their DVR is set to record “Inside Drag Racing” this Sunday morning at 11:30 AM on the Fox Sports Network, as they...
CraigsList Pick of the Week: Blower vs. Violations
Here is an interesting question. Does a supercharger erase or at least offset a number of style violations? This Camaro has both a blower and a host of violations, so we’ll let you be the...
Ron Capps Racing in Tony Stewart’s Prelude to a Dream
Ron Capps is a racer’s racer. For the fifth year in a row, he’ll be mixing it up on the historic dirt oval of Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio at Tony Stewart’s “Prelude to...
Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Ramblers
Outside of Volvos built during the 1980s, have there been any more square-ish looking cars ever built that the Ramblers of the late 1950s? We’re not saying that in a bad way, but just as a...