Category Archive: BangShift News
Speedzzter Says: Carnage or Classic, Does Hollywood Mistreat Muscle Cars?
The local video store finally cut the price so low on “Fast and Furious” that I rented it, despite my reservations. I may have been the last Bangshifter in America to have seen the fake...
Drunk-Driven Motorized Recliner to be Auctioned Off By Police
If you fell in love with the motorized recliner built, driven, and crashed by Minnesota’s Dennis LeRoy, you’re going to have a shot at owning it. After LeRoy plead guilty to the drunk...
Book Review: Snake Vs. Mongoose – How a Rivalry Changed Drag Racing Forever by Tom Madigan
Of all the historical drag racing stories that needed to be told in depth, the saga of the fabled rivalry between Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen and Don “The Snake” Prudhomme...
Ford Announces the 2010 Mustangs of the SEMA Show
As we gear up for a week of BangShift.com coverage of the 2009 SEMA Show, companies are starting to leak information on the cars that will be unveiled at the landmark event. Here’s the latest...
Barnstormin’: I’m A Liker, Not a Lover
Breaking the news to the little guy was going to be the hardest part of sending my old Worthington tractor to its new home in Rhode Island. In preparation of the moment, I printed off some photos of...
1967 Buick Funny Car Returns Home
A member called musclecarjohn over at Pro-Touring.com has posted a thread describing the bad ass and very unusual Buick Funny Car that his dad ran in 1967. What’s really odd is that the car was...
Video: One Bad Mother Hill Climber
We need to get ourselves to a hill climb some time soon. We don’t mean the European style, winding road up a hill, hill climb. Nope, we mean haul ass up a sand or dirt hill with a blown big...
Guzzler Sales Soar; Kelly Blue Book is “Embarrassed for the American Buying Public”
A story on MSNBC.com, via Forbes, reports that sales of poor-gas-mileage cars have risen in past months, mostly thanks to gas prices that are lower than they were at this time last year. Big news...
Former HealthSouth CEO’s Shady Car Dealings Come Out in Court
Richard Scrushy is the former CEO of healthcare provider HealthSouth. He was ordered by a judge to pay $2.8 billion in damages because of the role he had in massive amounts of fraud that involved the...
The SEMA Show is Coming Next Week: Make BangShift.com Your Stop for Coverage
Next week, the annual SEMA show descends upon the fine city of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is the yearly gathering of the automotive aftermarket where companies introduce products, showcase project cars,...
Ebay Pick of the Week: 1956 Chevy 3100 Panel Truck with Napco 4WD Conversion
This 1956 Chevy 3100 panel truck would have qualified as an eBay Pick of the Week even in 2WD form, but with a NAPCO 4WD conversion, this was a no-brainer. It’s wild to think about an era when...
Video: Monster Wheelstand!
We have to thank BangShift.com member KSJ1 for posting a link to this amazing wheelstand video in our forum. The wheelstand shown in the video below is incredibly badass, and the the YouTube...
How the NHRA is Weathering the Financial Storm
We would not exactly be breaking news if we told you that the economy sucked like a dealer lot full of mini-vans. When stuff is rocky like this, the strong, creating, and innovative survive. We came...
Mayfield on ESPN: Takes Shots at NASCAR, Admits Career is Over
Jeremy Mayfield appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Sunday morning. It was his first nationally televised one-on-one interview since being suspended indefinitely from NASCAR for failing a...