Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, FORD, OTHER, Videos
The WTF? Files: It’s A Mercury Cougar Chopper, Powered By A Chevy Mill!
The 1989-1997 Mercury Cougar wasn’t a bad car…just a bland one. Ford was so focused on front-wheel drive midsize cars that the simply ignored the Cougar and it’s Ford Thunderbird...
Matt Farah Is Hawking Performance Enhancers? Check Out His Latest Ad For Eclipse!
Some days you just don’t feel up to the task. Some days you fall short. We all have those days every once in a while. We thought we were hot stuff until someone else just put us into our place,...
265.6 MPH: Watch The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder Go For The Convertible Speed Record!
It is funny to think that a company with a history, pedigree, and relevancy like Bugatti is actually competing with a gearhead with a mad scientist kick from Texas, but the truth is that Hennessey...
Grab Some Popcorn And Watch Carfection Rate Their Eight Best Car Advertisements From The U.K.!
Good car advertisements are a rare thing nowadays, but that wasn’t always the case. It used to be that strangeness, a little self-deprecating humor, a good soundtrack or a killer mustache would...
Engine Teardown: Watch As This Porsche 930 Turbo Flat-Six Gets Taken Down To The Bare Block!
Spring is a little late to be tearing into a project engine, but better late than never. The sooner the engine is torn down, the sooner it can be built back up to be even better than it was before....
Morning Symphony: The Machine-Gun Blast Of A Skoda Fabia WRC Will Get You Moving In A Hurry!
Nothing will grab your attention faster than a strong anti-lag system getting strung up under boost. Nothing. Take it from a combat veteran…hearing a machine-gun POP-POP-POP! will scare the...
Hot Rod Garage Makes A 512 Cubic Inch Stroker Out Of A Throwaway Block And Jams It Into This Awesome Fury Station Wagon!
Laying around in the Hot Rod Garage arena was one particular 400 cubic inch Mopar big-block. And it had a sad tale: it was in the truck that Freiburger originally bought to use as an engine donor for...
Fail Video: Watch A Guy Completely Wipe Out The Front End Of His Nissan 240 In A Bad Street Drift Attempt
As we’ve said many times before here on the electronic pages of BangShift, we’ve got all the respect in the world for drift drivers. It isn’t easy, and they make it look like no...
Watch A Wheel For The Bloodhound SSC Get Spin Tested To 1,100 MPH In A Huge Test Rig
One of the things we have long admired about the Bloodhound SSC project is that the organizers and builders have managed to turn the whole venture into a huge source of national pride and teamwork...
This 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback Is The Genesis Point For An SCCA Spec Mustang Racer!
There is always a starting point to any car enthusiasts’ sickness, whether it was a car they spotted as a kid, a project worked on with family or friends, or the moment they realized they were...
What Is Fred From Dirt Every Day Doing With A Beat Up Volkswagen Vanagon, Besides Killing His Spine?
“The Volkswagen van may not be what most people think of when they’re looking for something to hoon around in,” according to Fred Williams. No kidding. Unless you are someone who...
Insanity on Ice: Unlimited Sleds of the Golden Age of Snowmobile Speed Runs, With Video
While winter has not gotten here in the technical sense of the date, the worm has turned for us in northern climates and it is cold, grey, and occasionally flurrying here and there. We know a guy in...
Check Out The Wild Ride That Brandon Pesz Goes On In Keith Haney’s Nitrous Camaro – Nearly Flips It Before Riding The Barrier!
Depending on how you view this, Brandon Pesz is either one hell of a driver or had enough luck on his side to take care of a good-sized city, because the run he made in Keith Haney’s...
This Guy Knows His Machine! Watch As He Pulls Off Stunts With His Yamaha MT-07 Like It’s A Bicycle!
Do you remember mastering the J-turn on your bicycle by locking up the rear wheel and swinging the tail around? Remember how awesome you thought you were for being able to master the perfect...