Category Archive: BangShift News
Large Woody Collection to be Auctioned on August 13th; That Came Out Wrong
Oh get your heads out of the gutter. We’re talking cars people! One of the nation’s best and largest collection of “Woodies” will be sold by RM Auctions on August 13th, 2009...
It Came From the Forums: Vote on Your Favorite Cash For Clunkers Cartoon
One of our BangShift.com Forum members, Steve Cole found a bunch of great political cartoons about the maush despised Cash for Clunkers the government is in the process of feeding billions of dollars...
Video of the Week: 10 Minutes in Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Heaven
Larry Pfister has been operating HorsepowerHeaven.com for some years now. He is in the business of making killer drag racing videos and the one he has posted from the recently completed NHRA...
Event Coverage: Loring Timing Association 2009 Meet
Land Speed Racing officially exists in Maine with the successful completion of the Loring Timing Association’s inaugural 2009 event. Held on a 2.5 mile runway formerly used to launch and...
Hennessey Performance Expands Operation, Brings on New Partner
Hennessey Performance Engineering, the tuner/supercar builder from Sealy, Texas, has announced that the company is expanding its business and bringin in another parter. This positive news flies in...
Kansas State Fair Featured Combine Demo Derby; How the Hell Did We Miss Out On This?!
Once we heard that there was a combine demo derby at the Central Kansas Free State Fair we were immediately disappointed we weren’t there to see it. Bus demo derbies we have seen, standard...
Daily Dose of Mayfield: A Hilarious Timeline of the Whole Saga
This is far and away the funniest thing we have read on the Jeremy Mayfield versus NASCAR situation. ThatsRacin.com’s Larry Woody penned a timeline of all the “events” that have...
New York Times Embeds Reporter at Woodward Dream Cruise; We’re Bringing the Thunder Too
With the sorry state of the newspaper business these days we were surprised to read that the New York Times will be providing lots of coverage from the Detroit area’s Woodward Dream Cruise from...
Site of the Week: All about Burt Munro
With Bonneville Speed Week 2009 set to begin in mere hours, we thought it would be appropriate to look back at one of the legends of the salt. New Zealander Burt Munro is one of the most...
Here Come Da Judge: New GT2 Corvette Released for Public Viewing
Yesterday the much talked about Corvette C6.R GT2 road racing Corvettes were revealed to the world. These pieces, the follow up to the much heralded GT1 Corvettes, are set to begin hand-to-hand...
Unearthed: The Government Instructions on Killing “Clunker” Engines
We have located and read the sickening instructions being handed down by the government to be used by car dealers to kill the motors of “Cash for Clunkers” trade-ins. This whole thing is...
Felipe Massa Recovering; Eager to Return to Racing
Felipe Massa, the Ferrari F1 team driver who was struck in the head by an errant spring during the Hungarian Grand Prix a couple weeks ago, is recovering in Brazil and is very anxious to get back...
T-Shirt of the Day; Got the Guts to Wear it in Detroit?
Every once in a while a shirt comes along that is brilliant in a dastardly way and for today, this one mocking GM has the top spot. You could totally pull this off at any Ford or Mopar event in the...
It’s Coming and You Can’t Stop It: The BangShift.com East Feast October 17th at Beaver Springs Dragway
What started as some chatter on the BangShift.com forums has quickly become a weekend of fun at Beaver Springs Dragway in scenic and beautiful Beaver Springs, Pennsylvania. This is not some kind of...