Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos
Video: The Old CarJunkieTV Blown Big-Block Chevy
I’m sick as a dog today and am just sitting around surfing YouTube. I found this old video we did back the days of CarJunkieTV.com and realized that it shows us dyno testing the same blown...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1983 Renault Alliance
The next member of our Awful Cars, Awful Ads hall of shame is the Renault Alliance. This putrid heap of shoddy French engineering was sold through AMC dealers after Renault took at 46 percdent stake...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1985 Plymouth Reliant/ Dodge Aries
Continuing with our Awful Cars, Awful Ads theme today, we have the 1985 Plymouth Reliant/Dodge Aries one-two punch. More like gut punch. Yes, these cars effectively saved Chrysler from sliding under...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron
On the heels of reading Rob Kinnan’s great editorial entitled “Crappy Cars” in the January 2010 edition of Hot Rod magazine, we were inspired to act on a crappy car impulse we were...
Crazy Turbine Powered Honda Motorcycle
BangShift.com forum member Eagle Kammback posted a link to this totally wild Boeing T-50 Turbine powered Honda motorcycle in the forum section and we just had to throw it up here on the front page....
Buy Jeremy Mayfield’s Stuff Online
On November 20th, the will be an auction of former NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield’s estate and personal items. Up until now, you’d have had to have been on site to buy stuff. Now, through...
Book Review: The Complete Book of Shelby Automobiles by Colin Comer
Say the name Carroll Shelby among a group of car guys and the response you’ll get will be as varied as the day is long. There are the worshipers, the haters, the historians, and those who...
Australian Hoon Driver Uploads Incriminating Video Complete with License Plate Number
When will these guys learn? Yet another Australian driver has gone out tearing around town with his video camera and then uploaded the video on YouTube. Problem? Hell yeah, because the video...
Brad Kaselowski Read Riot Act by NASCAR Before Race
Brad Kaselowski was called to a private meeting with NASCAR officials before Sunday’s race, according to an Associated Press story. The meeting centered around Kaselowski’s agressive...
Louisiana Schools Adding Trade Education Option
In a laudable move, some schools in Louisiana are adding trade education classes back into their curricula in an effort to stem dropout rates. The classes, featuring stuff like welding, are part of...
Event Coverage: Pistons and Paint Numero 8
Big thanks to BangShift.com forum member BigDad for providing us this gallery from the Pistons and Paint Numero 8 show in Denton, Texas, on November 14, 2009. The show has humble origins as a small...
Report: NHRA To Sanction Tracks Worldwide
Respected drag racing journalist Rob Geiger is reporting that the NHRA will be sanctioning drag strips in the Middle East in the neat future. This is huge news in the sense that the organization will...
EBay Pick of the Week: Wild Blown Hemi Powered Street Legal Bantam Altered
If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, we share the same mental illness. Our thought process when we laid eyes on this wild hunk of iron jumped directly to Hot Rod’s Drag Week. It...
Monday Time Killer: Tons of Bonneville Pics From the Last 10 Years
This week’s Time Killer will have you spending some quality time on the salt at Bonneville. We happened upon this major league collection of photos while doing some research on another story...