Category Archive: BangShift News, HISTORIC
What’s Old Is New Again… Is Late 80’s-Early 90’s Pro Street Back In Style?
Nostalgia. That word can mean a lot of different things to different people, but typically, popular culture seems to place things that occurred around 20-25 years ago in the “sweet spot”...
Petrolicious Shows Off The Prototype 1957 Aston Martin DB Mark III In It’s Unrestored Glory
Prototype vehicles usually have short, bright life: they come out to much fanfare, are worked over by testers, engineers and stylists until everything is just right for production…and then,...
Dirt Every Day Set Out To Build The Ultimate, Do-Everything Off-Roader. We Think They Missed The Point…
When it comes to off-roading, it’s literally a case of “name your poison”. What’s your pleasure…mud? Rockcrawling? Maybe you like to drive as far away from humanity as...
Blue-Blood Ramp Truck: Jay Leno Shows Off His Replica 1950 Mercedes-Benz “Rennabteilung” Race Car Hauler
It’s a strange-looking beast, isn’t it? In the early 1950s, Mercedes-Benz’s preferred method for keeping their race cars running was to bring the cars back to Germany for work...
Movie Night at Finnegan’s! Check Out Some Of His Old Drag-Boat Racing Footage!
It’s no secret that Mike Finnegan’s first love is drag boat racing, and it runs deep…it has to, for someone who was living in Southern California and racing on the water in Arizona....
Un-Pimp Ze Auto! MCM Tears Down Their Rice-Tastic Mitsubishi Lancer!
Ever look at a car and wonder just how much crap was attached, bolted-on, fitted, glued, or taped on? Well, Mighty Car Mods is about to show you just how much gingerbread you can actually add on to a...
Let It All Hang Out: The Top Ten Burnouts From the Blown Class At Gazzanats!
I’m a basic human, what can I say? Some days all I want is a loud, screaming engine in full use, two burning tires out back, and enough fuel to keep the fun going until the tires are gone. Hey,...
Just A Slight Misjudgement: Watch As Brandon Smith Rolls His Polaris RZR XP 1000 Eight Times Down Donkey Punch Hill!
When you see the trees pointing straight down as you look straight ahead, it means only one thing: you’ve screwed up big-time and this is probably going to hurt. Brandon Smith got lucky and got...
Motor Trend Tests The Chevrolet SS Sedan Out, Compares It To A Fifteen-Year-Old BMW, Doesn’t Bother Testing New BMWs
Up front: the video is going to be exactly what you are expecting from Motor Trend. Jason Cammisa will drive a car, Randy Pobst will show you how hard the car can be driven, and you’ll hear a...
It’s Italian, Funky And Set Up For Long-Distance Roaming – Jay Leno’s Freshly-Restored 1969 Lamborghini Espada Is Great!
From the front, it looks lie a big-boy Mustang, complete with NACA ducts and one thin chrome bar that thinks it’s a bumper. From the rear, you get hints Honda CRX. No, really…you have a...
Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!
The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along...
Unhinged: Listen To Ferrari Genius John Pogson Explain His Love Of An Unloved Ferrari
Every car ever built has had a fan. It doesn’t matter if it’s the opulent coach built monster of the 1920’s that is the coveted item for any and every collector or it’s the...
Roadkill! The Guys Celebrate The 50th Episode With Another Comparison: Every (running) Roadkill Car Against A Kia!
It’s amazing how far these two have come. From the first episode, where they road-tripped a Pontiac land yacht to picking up one of my favorite online finds of all time and confusing it with an...
Historical Footage: Check Out This Compilation Of Wrecks From The International Race Of Champions!
All things being equal, IROC racing seemed to be a coming together of the best: invite top-tier drivers, stick them in identical cars that were only different in color, cut them loose on a track, and...