Category Archive: BangShift News, ENGINE, New Products, Tech Stories
Can Changing The Oil Be As Easy As Changing A Printer’s Ink Cartridge? With The Castrol Nexcel System, It Could Be! (VIDEO)
The oil change is that first maintenance step that most people deal with as a vehicle owner. Oil is the lifeblood of the engine, and has to be changed, and for decades that job fell to either a...
Take A Look At Some Of The Cool Stuff We Saw At The Pomona Swap Meet!
It was 4:30 am when I rolled up to Crosby’s shop with Skid Row playing Slave to the Grind at 11 so as to wake myself up. With only a couple hours sleep it wasn’t a pleasure hearing my...
Start Your Week Off Right…With An Airplane Drifting Donuts In The Snow
It is official: Bobby Breeden is a freaking overachiever when it comes to piloting an aircraft. I say that not only as a writer, but as someone who has worked the rudder and stick before. We’ve...
Would You Rather? Take Your Pick Between Two Suggested Full-Sizers That We Missed!
Earlier this week we gave you a Top 11 list of our favorites from Detroit’s “bigger is better” days, and you guys seemed to like it, a lot. But with only eleven spots, it was...
Early Christmas Shopping: Watching This Rally Driver Play DiRT Rally On A Serious Racing Sim Makes Us Want The Whole Setup!
Racing games have come a long way since I first played Rad Racer as a kid. Who am I kidding, they’ve come a long way since the original Gran Turismo came out on the first Playstation, and back...
Only In Australia: A Mid-Engined Kei Truck Spinning Tires To No Tomorrow
The “bongo truck”…that’s not what it is actually called, but my nickname for these things. Marketed as a Ford, Mitsubishi, Kia, and a whole host of Middle East and Asian kit...
Barnstormin’: Of Dually Trucks, Drag Strips and Return Roads
As a fan, a writer, an announcer, or in any other light, drag racing has always been a sport about details to me. Some people get wound up in the macro element of things with the huge noise, smoke,...
Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!
At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamics become an integral part of racing rather than an secondary consideration. Downforce becomes very real (and your best friend) and anything that can act like an...
Caption This: Who Says You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too With This Lincoln Flatbed?
In the era of $70,000 pickup trucks that make the excesses of the 1970s land barges seem tame by comparison, we often find ourselves looking at Australian utes for the answer to a question we wished...
C6 Corvette Z06 and 427 Owners File Lawsuit, Seek Class-Action Status Over Engine Defect
When the LS7 427ci V8 appeared for the C6 Corvette, we were all smiles. Finally, after decades, the 427 Corvette was a reality again, straight from General Motors with a warranty and all. It...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: This Week, Ludacris’s Legend, Unabashed Tesla Fanboi-ism, And More!
Indian summer is upon us here…the temperature is right on that fine line between cool and “get a coat”, the trees are starting to get colorful, and at least twice a day flights of...
Ebay Find: Finding The Car Of Your Childhood Dreams – A Drivable Cozy Coupe!
Red body, yellow top, white mesh wheels with red caps, barely fits two. For a lot of kids growing up, the Little Tykes Cozy Coupe was their first real set of wheels. And we mean lots: in production...
This 1969 Shelby GT500 Has Been In The Family Ever Since It Was Bought As An $800 Runaround In 1973!
As I creeped along towards the gates of Beech Bend Raceway Park for my first day at the NMRA All-Ford World Finals, I was already feeling out how things were going to turn out, and it could be summed...
2015 Olcott Beach Car Show Coverage: Our Final Load Of Photos
(Photos by Mike Brooks) – They came in droves and droves. They raised money for the Ronald McDonald House and they had a hell of a time doing it. Those are the major takeaways from the...