Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??
Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Road Trip Food?
Outside of the molten hot drag strip action, our favorite parts of the Drag Week experience are the drives between tracks. Because the route is normally heavily geared towards back roads, we get to...
In-Car Videos: Making 7-Second Passes In A 5-Speed, Nitrous Fed, 498ci AMC Powered GREMLIN!
Kevin Fontenot is one of the most hardcore AMC guys on planet Earth. How do we know that? The dude has a Gremlin that runs in the 7-teens at nearly 190mph in Outlaw 10.5 trim. This car has a custom...
The 2013 Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals – Incredible Race Cars, Barn Finds, Racers, More!
The 2013 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals marks the fifth edition of this awesome show. Every year we wonder how they will top last years event, and every year they somehow manage to. Manager Bob...
Video: Epic Rental Minivan Burnout That Results In Slight Panic And Lots Of AC Vent Smoke
If you don’t know what AC Vent smoke is, you haven’t done a big boy burnout in a new rental car and forgot to turn off the automatic climate control. We have, and can tell you that as...
Video: An Inside Look At The Ring Brothers… The Who, What, And Why That Explain How They Tick
For nearly 20 years the Ring Brothers have been building bitchin cars, but in the last decade they have truly come into their own and are considered to be one of the upper echelon custom car builders...
NutJob: Concept Cars – Why I Hate To Love Them
Late November into early December is one of my favorite times of the year, but it’s not solely for the reasons you might think. Thanksgiving is only a few days away, the NFL is in full swing, and...
Best of BangShift – Carnage Video: A Stroker Boss 429 Explodes on the Dyno
This Boss 557 meets a spectacular end on the engine dyno when it appears that the flywheel explodes at peak RPM during a pull. The accompanying notes with the video say that there were multiple...
Car Feature: A Perfectly Simple 1966 Buick Special That’s Simply Perfect – Stage 1 455 And All!
We get as wrapped up in stuff as anyone else. Following all these big builds all over the place with guys shoving massive turbos into tube chassis cars capable of running harder and faster than full...
GM Announces Updated 320hp 3.6L V6 For Colorado Truck And 2.8L Duramax Diesel Option In Future – Back In Small Truck Game
One of the, if not this biggest announcement at the 2013 LA Auto Show has been Chevrolet’s parade of information regarding the all new Colorado truck. This is GM’s first foray back into...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is It Bad When Racing Gets National Exposure For A Big Crash?
One of the craziest viral videos to hit the internet with respect to racing has been the El Mirage crash of Brian Gillespie. We were among the first to run the video and then it blew up everywhere...
This Video Of A Sprint Car Chassis Being Crash Tested Is Crazy And Pretty Surprising
We have to thank the dudes at Racing Head Service for tipping us off to this video yesterday. As weird as it sounds, we have never thought about what race cars would look like getting subjected to...
Bitchin’: Jack Reynolds’ Hand Built, All Metal Model Race Cars, Are Literally Things Of Wonder – Amazing!
We’re always happily surprised when we get a tip in our email box that shows of the craftiness and smarts of gearheads. As it turns out, Jack Reynolds of Upland, California is one of those guys...
In-Car Video Mayhem: What Happens Inside The Car When A Tire Shreds At 244 MPH!
Modern racing tires no matter the genre are all amazing testaments to engineering. From the amazing punishment absorbed by tires on desert race trucks to the grinding death that NASCAR racers put...
eBay Find: A 1973 Baldwin-Motion Phase III Chevelle – Four Speed, 427, Big Gears, Sidepipes, All Of It!
1973 Chevelles typically don’t normally top the list of our “must own” list but when one of them has been given the full treatment by Baldwin-Motion and packs the go-fast stuff and...