Category Archive: ChadMouth
Chadmouth: Why Are So Many Racers IDIOTS When It Comes To Racecar Safety?
As usual this edition of Chadmouth will probably cause some controversy, but before I get started, let me assure you that if you have read the title of this edition of Chadmouth and are immediately...
Chadmouth: The IndyCar Edition Including Photos and Video!
So, the Monday before the Long Beach Grand Prix our guy Jimi Day, with Optima Batteries, calls and says “Hey bud, Optima is a sponsor of the World Challenge Series and I have some credentials for...
Chadmouth: Rental Cars Rule! You paid for them, so use them.
Let’s face it, most of us don’t drive like idiots all the time. Sometimes…but not all the time. Sure, we will do the occasional burnout, hang the ass end out, or brake check our buddies, but...
Chadmouth: Super Bowl Commercial Edition
Football is uniquely American, and yet Baseball and Apple Pie are always the things that get quoted. We can’t forget my favorite though when General Motors President, and U.S. Secretary of...
CHADMOUTH: BangShift.com’s 1st 300 mph Club member, 1st Funny Car, and 1st Top Fueler
Dudes and Dudettes!!!!!!! While at the PRO Winter Warmup this past weekend, we got our name on three Fuel Funny Cars and a Top Fuel Dragster! And not just any Funny Cars and Dragster. We’d love to...
CHADMOUTH: Welcome to the new 2012 Twin-Turbo, Nitrous Huffing, Wheelstanding BangShift.com!
It’s an exciting day here at BangShift.com, as Brian and the nerds and I bring you a new and improved 2012 version of the site! We’ve been working feverishly, along with Scott and Michael...
Chadmouth: 2011 SEMA Show: Big Wheels, Crap Spokespeople, and Fake Patina Suck!
Each November, every major and minor player in the automotive aftermarket shows up in Las Vegas for the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Show. Everything from accessories to engines,...
Chadmouth: Travel Rookies Suck!
I’ve traveled for a living multiple times during my adult life, and while I have traveled more than I do now, I would still consider myself a professional traveler. I spend more than half of my...
Chadmouth: It’s Chadweek at BangShift! Brian is on vacation and left me the keys! Woo Hoo
That’s right boys and girls, it’s party time! Brian left for a week at the beach with the family so good or bad it’s all Chad all week long! Woo Hoo! Who’s up for burnouts in...
Chadmouth: 100MPH Couch? I’m not impressed. We could do better.
When we first heard about a speed record for a couch that was hit by a group of guys in Australia, we were intrigued. Once we saw the couch in question, we were not impressed. In fact so much so that...
Chadmouth: Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Can we do it again next week?
Bonneville. That single word makes anyone who has ever been fast, or dreamed of going fast, envision the mythical great white salt. It’s the unchecked box on more bucket lists than you can...
Chadmouth: Substitutes. aka Tofurkey, Light Beer, LS Engines?
This Chadmouth is a short one, but I just got done watching Anthony Bordain’s No Reservations show on TV where, while eating a fried pork chop gracefully placed between two halves of a soft...
Chadmouth: It’s the skinny pedal on the right.
Corn, lots and lots of corn. Is Illinois the corn state? Which college football team is the Cornhuskers? Isn’t that Nebraska? Hmmmm…. All of this is going through my mind in a matter of...
Chadmouth Poll: Road Tripping Your Hot Rod Rules! How many states have you hit?
With rare exception, your hot rod started out as a mode of daily transportation. I know, I know, some of you think they are ONLY there to look at and this realization may be a bit of a shocker for...