Category Archive: BangShift News, Car Features, Craigslist Find, OTHER
CraigsList Find: 1972 AMC Javelin Pierre Cardin edition
Javelins are awesome. Not only did Mark Donohue wring them out in Trans Am competition, but they’re the perfect car if you happen to live in a geodesic dome. They’re weird, wacky and the...
Electric-Glide: A First Ride On Harley-Davidson’s Project LiveWire Prototype All Electric Motorcycle
The first thing you think of when you think “Harley-Davidson” isn’t a highly technical, zero-emissions, completely silent motorcycle. The faithful just won’t stand for it,...
VIDEO: Watch this cool Italian cat blow donuts in a $750,000 Iso Grifo Competizione
A few years back, I wrote a piece for another website about my personal issues with “Concours D’Elegance” in America. What started life as an opportunity to see a bunch of cool cars...
This 1964 Beetle Trucklet Is Well-Done, But Is It For You?
I’ve seen many things done to Volkswagen Beetles. Some, like Baja Bugs and the Meyers Manx, are great ideas. Some, like kit-car Ferraris and visual modifications to make the car into a rolling...
History: Steve McQueen’s dunebuggy in The Thomas Crown Affair
We’ve mentioned The Thomas Crown Affair in a few other posts here. Let’s just say this: There is no other movie that ever made me want a dune buggy more. McQueen’s dune buggy was no...
Zorro’s Charger – A Patina’d 1960s Gasser That Goes 10s and Takes Our Breath Away
(Since we’ll be live broadcasting the 2014 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion from Bowling Green next week, we decided to run some of the coolest car features we shot at the race over the...
Four-door Fursday: Five of the coolest four-doors ever
In yesterday’s Craigslist Bait-N-Switch of the Week, I mentioned that the Skylark in question had two doors two many. A few of our Facebook fans took issue with the lack of respect for sedans...
Before Earl “Lucky” Teter, Joie Chitwood and Evel Knievel, B. Ward Beam invented the auto thrill show
The following advertisement appeared in the Amherst (N.Y.) Bee on August 6, 1931: Wanted: Single man, not over 25 years, to drive automobile in head-on collision with another car at the Albion...
More on that awesome Russian 2WD motorcycle. You build it yourself!
BangShift Facebook fan Howard Holmes did the homework (4th grade was the toughest three years of our lives – ed.) we didn’t and came up with the website for that great Russian 2WD...
In August 1973, cheating in the Soap Box Derby made national news
In August, 1973 — at the very height of the Watergate scandal — Walter Cronkite, Time magazine and hundreds of other broadcasts and publications were focused on one thing: the 36th...
Two-Wheel Too Cool: This 1975 Kawasaki KZ400 is how you’re supposed to build a cafe bike
Cafe bikes have become the new rat rods. What started out as the ultimate expression of form following function turned into guys just throwing together hideously ugly motorcycles with bubblegum welds...
Sneak Preview: Marvel has a new Ghost Rider and he drives a Charger
Since Issue #5 of Marvel Spotlight, Ghost Rider has been astride the kind of chopper that would feel right at home in Easy Rider. But beginning this week, Marvel’s new Ghost Rider is piloting a...
Italian Furniture Builders Built This BMW K100RS Cafe Racer Out of An Oil Drum and It’s DEADLY
Vibrazioni Art Design isn’t known for building motorcycles. It’s recognized for building cool furniture out of old 55 gallon oil drums, the way half the bands in Jamaica built their drum...
Short Shift: A Weekend Road Trip In The 2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring Edition Will Make You Want To Kill Your Small SUV
(Welcome to the Short Shift! This is where we’ll do less intensive reviews of new cars and stuff that we get a chance to have some quality time with. Manufacturers will sometimes ask us if we...