Category Archive: BangShift News
Video Review: 7-Second Love Affair
The golden era of Top Fuel racing during the ‘60s is heavily romanticized. Stories from those days just seem too good to be true and even reading period racing newspapers conveys the feeling...
FreiburgersJunkyard.com is Becoming BangShift.com!
It’s pretty well known that the founder of this site, David Freiburger, has moved on to more well-paying pastures as the Editor In Chief of Hot Rod magazine, and has handed this web asylum over...
New Gallery: 2009 Milers Land Speed Club Meeting
To participate in the land speed races at El Mirage Dry Lake here in California, you must be a member of one of the clubs that comprise the Southern California Timing Association. Last year I was...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: A Bad Day at Lime Rock
Anyone who has been involved in racing at any level and in any capacity knows that there are good days at the track when everything goes right and bad days at the track where the almighty is telling...
Dan Dye’s New Twin-Turbo Hemi Cuda Pro Mod
Skinny Kid Race Cars has finished construction on this wild heap of iron that Dan Dye (one of the original 10.5-tire hitters) will campaign on the ADRL and IHRA circuits this season after getting the...
The Hack Job General Lee has Officially Hit Rock Bottom
This is the, we hope, rock bottom in the story of the Hack Job General Lee, a 1969 Dodge Charger that had been purchased sight-unseen on the Internet and that has turned into a nightmare matrix of...
The Top 11 Ways You’ll Know Where the GM Performance Division Engineers Were Reassigned
With the recent announcements regarding the GM Performance Division and the fact that the GMPD engineers have been reassigned to other projects, we thought it would be good to look into the future...
eBay Pick of the Week: Monster Truck with Creature Comforts
We spotted this ad, saw the 66-inch tires, and thought of all those great monster truck events we went to as kids. This thing is not as it first seems, though. In looking past the tires we happened...
Monday Time Killer: Barn Finds, Canadian Mopar Style
There are bitchin’ cars hidden in barns all over the world. We don’t have a hammer lock on them just here in the States. This week’s Time Killer site proves that there is coolness...
Roadside Find: 1987 Suburban Dually
I so want to own this. Talk about the best tow rig ever! It’s two-wheel drive, in beautiful shape, I think it has a big-block in it, and best of all is the narrowed 14-bolt and dually tires in...
Chadmouth: Hot Rodding with the Glass Half Full
I’m a cup-half-full kind of guy. Some people aren’t, and that’s okay, but I prefer to go through life with a smile on my face and the wind in my hair. I prefer to hang out with...
It Came From the fab Shop: The $5.00 3D Chassis Model
Welcome to a new weekly recurring feature here on the site. It Came From the Fab Shop is being written by Loren Krussow, who is known as KSO4 on our forums. Loren has a fabrication business and along...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Government Bans the Sale of Kids’ Dirt Bikes
The AMA is pleading with its members, motorcycling enthusiasts, and general gearheads across the land to get on the horn and work to lift the ban on the sales of kids’ motorcycles before it has...
Motorized Freak of the Week: Sammy Miller’s Rocket Funny Car
In 1975, nothing on a dragstrip was quicker or faster than Sammy Miller’s Spirit of ‘76 Mustang II. It was the very first rocket powered Funny Car. Motivated by a hydrogen peroxide...