Category Archive: BangShift News, CRASH & BURN, Videos
Supercross Showdown! Weston Peick Fined $5000 And Suspended One Race For Throwing Blows At Vince Friese!
Close-proximity competition breeds frustration and anger. Guys who would normally be cool with each other turn into demons once they are placed on the course against one another, and that’s...
Take A Close Look At An Australian Legend, The Holden Torana A9X
In America we had the death of the muscle car in the early 1970s due to the combined efforts of the insurance industry, the onset of emissions controls, and a shift in tastes from fast and flashy to...
Class Is In Session! Learn About The Ins And Outs Of Braking With Randy Pobst!
The one feeling that will make your heart drop into your gut is when you really botch braking while at speed. Lock the brakes with the roadway quickly running out and you risk not only a mess in the...
Hot Rod Garage’s 12-Valve Swapped Dodge Gets Some Suspension Rehab And Gets Rid Of The Peg Leg!
Just dumping in an engine powerful enough to stall the Earth’s rotation is not the final answer to a project car…in fact, on it’s own, just adding power without addressing such...
Check This Out: Fourteen Killer Go-Kart And ATV Performance Ideas!
When I was a kid, I had a few Honda ATC 200 three-wheelers. I loved them, but after I got over the learning curve of pull-starting the damn things when they were cold, got over the fear of the power...
Would You Rather: Which Overly-Enthusiastic 1980s Lukewarm Hatch Would You Take Home?
The mid-1980s was the time when auto manufacturers cautiously, carefully and nervously picked up the book of performance and started flipping through the dusty pages to see if there was a way that...
And The Angels Sing: Listen To This Stock Mustang GT350 Book It From 0-170 MPH!
Ever since Ford dropped the bomb that is the Mustang Shelby GT350 last year, everybody’s main course is not so much the power…that was a given…but the absolutely spectacular noise...
Classic YouTube: Giving A Tired, Rusty And MOT-Failing Jeep Cherokee A Proper Sendoff
Not every car is a Rolls-Royce, or Duesenberg, or 1957 Chevrolet, or Hemi ‘Cuda…most are pedestrian tools that have a limited life, and once that life is used up, they generally hit the...
Best Of 2015: That’s Not A Tool, That’s A Brick: The Best Video Of Karma Paying Back A Car Prowler You’ll Ever See
(Editor’s Note: And the “Dumbass Of The Year” award goes to…this guy. -McTaggart) You have to be pretty low to find yourself using rocks to break into cars to steal...
Best Of 2015: Plowing Snow Like A Boss Using An Old Honda Three-Wheeler!
A fairly hidden fact is that before I got deep into cars I was deeper into bikes and trikes. I loved my dirt bikes, but without question the one ride that I adored above all others were early 1980s...
Best of 2015: XJ Cherokee Versus A Swimming Pool: Which One Will Win?
Okay…we have a homemade ramp made mostly of old pallets. We have one well-used and abused Jeep Cherokee, and we have a backyard swimming pool. We also have a bunch of Canadians who are looking...
Best Of 2015: This RWD V8-converted Chevrolet Cavalier Is An Evil Little Sleeper From The Great White North
What is in the water in Quebec? First we find that twin-engined freak of a Pontiac Grand Prix, then we come across this: a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 that’s been converted to rear-wheel-drive,...
It’s Nothing But A Good Old-Fashioned Burnout Contest That Has Cars, Trucks, And Even The Jimmy John’s Driver Laying Rubber!
Sometimes, you just have to cut loose and have some fun. We all have done it in some shape or form, and if you can think of a better way to get your kicks than a burnout contest, then go for it. We...
Dyno Time! It’s A Battle Of The Two 383 Cubic Inchers – Stroker Chevy Small Block Versus Big Block Mopar!
In no way is the battle of the 383 cubic inch engines that Engine Masters put together a fair fight, despite what Freiburger keeps claiming. Why? Simple: a small-block Chevy stroker is a rev-happy...