Category Archive: BangShift News, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
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...
Petrolicious Takes A Look At A One-Family, Well-Traveled 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T
Here’s a numbers lesson for you today: in 1970, Dodge cranked out 76,935 Challengers for production. Out of all of those cars, 137 of them were 426 Hemi-powered R/T hardtops with a four-speed....
Best Of 2015: Skewering The Sacred Cow – A DZ302-powered 1963 Ferrari 250 GT/E That Has Enzo Rolling In His Grave
The Ferrari 250 series is carried by the the factory Ferrari racing cars and the wildly valuable 250 GTO, but the long wheelbase, four seater GT/E carries two great distinctions: it was...
This Old Snow Blower Is Definitely Weird… And Definitely Bangshift Approved!
In the past week, the US has seen some really intense weather. While some parts of the country, like The Northeast, have seemingly skipped winter and gone right to spring, other parts of the country...
Wheels And Tires, A Disc Brake Conversion, And An Engine That Won’t Self-Destruct Go Into Hot Rod Garage’s Demon 340!
We’ve gotten to see the full transformation of Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340, from a non-runner that had been in storage for a long time to the moment where the 340 itself decided to...
Roadkill! The Guys Take Their Circle-Track Racer And Slap Most Of A Monte Carlo On Top, Then Street-Drive The Whole Thing!
It is honestly quite impressive that Finnegan and Freiburger actually had a car that the legal team at TEN refused to let them drive on the street. A few years ago, they had bought an amateur-level...
Best of BS 2015: Bob Glidden’s Rollcage-Breaking Thunderbird Barrel Roll At Atlanta in 1986
Crashing a Pro Stock car hard enough to blow the body off of the chassis would seem to be the point where a long hospital stay would be required, right? Especially when the crash involves the track...
Best Of BS 2015: We’d Ask For The Dashcam Footage From This Truck Vs. Giant Sawblade Accident, But All We’d Hear Is Screaming
It’s not photoshop. That is a big-ass saw blade jammed two feet deep into the nose of a JMC truck in China. Just when you thought Russia had the market cornered on strange automobile accidents,...
