Category Archive: BangShift News
THE Original Goodguy Is Gone: Gary Meadors, Goodguys Founder, Has Passed.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this. Gary Meadors, the Founder and Chairman of Goodguys Rod and Custom Association died suddenly today. When I got the news this afternoon I found myself...
Best of BS 2015: Bob Glidden’s Rollcage-Breaking Thunderbird Barrel Roll At Atlanta in 1986
Crashing a Pro Stock car hard enough to blow the body off of the chassis would seem to be the point where a long hospital stay would be required, right? Especially when the crash involves the track...
Best Of BS 2015: Kenny Reece’s “3-to-1” 427-powered Supermodified
In the quest for racing supremacy, creative engineering becomes the tool of the imaginative and certain cars push (and sometimes, exceed) the boundaries of the established rules. You know several...
Best Of BS 2015: We’d Ask For The Dashcam Footage From This Truck Vs. Giant Sawblade Accident, But All We’d Hear Is Screaming
It’s not photoshop. That is a big-ass saw blade jammed two feet deep into the nose of a JMC truck in China. Just when you thought Russia had the market cornered on strange automobile accidents,...
Best Of BS 2015: The Most American “V8 Interceptor” We Could Find
(This Javelin-turned-V8 Interceptor was easily one of this year’s most talked about eBay finds of this year. It’s not like Australian Falcons are common in the States, so creativity is a...
Best Of BS 2015: Happiness Is Running A Snotty F100 Through An Autocross Like You Own The Place
This is pretty much what a Craftsman Truck would look like circa 1971, and that’s awesome to us. This Ford F100 makes the right noises, dances properly, and rips through the cones of this Texas...
Best Of BS 2015: The Kibbetech-built Crown Victoria Prerunner Is Stirring Up Ideas In Our Heads
Soak in that visual for a second: a 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria prerunner. Everything but four wheel drive is present and accounted for: ‘cage, flared out fenders, suspension with good travel,...
Best Of BS 2015: Here’s All The Fun You Could Be Having If You Jammed A Blown 5.4L V8 Into A Crown Victoria
“Quickcrownvic” took one look at his Ford Crown Victoria and sighed. The 4.6L V8 just wasn’t doing the trick anymore. At maybe 240 horsepower on a good day, there just wasn’t...
Best of BangShift: Bulldozers And Steel Balls – BangShift Greatness Circa 1950
Back in 1940s and 50s America it wasn’t a question if the forest should be ripped down, it was a question of how quickly that pesky forest could be dispatched with and who could figure out...
Daring To Be Different? How About Two Different Takes On The Ford Ranger?
All it takes to turn a regular, run of the mill, don’t think twice about it vehicle into something pretty special is talent and a vision. And if there is one vehicle that needs a vision,...
Merry Christmas From BangShift.com – We Hope Everyone Has A Great Day
Today is Christmas, a day that we hope you’ll enjoy in whatever capacity you can. For some of us, we’ll be waking up at the crack of dawn because our kids are amped up to see what Santa...
Best of BS 2015: Short Street Rod Shop Tour: This 1955 Ford Fairlane Street Freak Has A Street Racing Past And A Great Future Ahead Of It!
Karma is a beautiful thing. At last year’s Holley Hot Rod Reunion, I shot Jensen Masters’ altered-wheelbase 1964 Rambler American as one of my first feature shoots. I was happy to have...
Best Of BS 2015: This 1985 Mercury Grand Marquis Packs A Frame Swap, Modern Running Gear, And A Style All It’s Own – Meet The Mod Box
As the champion of both 1980s restomods and the “dare to be different” guy, you have no idea how taken I was to see a Mercury Grand Marquis coupe in black and chrome, dumped down on...
Best Of BS 2015: Bugs Bunny Lives! Watch This Rabbit Mess With A Delivery Van In Scotland!
Nobody wants to run over an animal with a car…well, nobody sane, anyways. But it happens…everything from the deer you never saw coming, to the possum you didn’t see laying in the...