Category Archive: BangShift News, CAR FEATURES, MOPAR, Videos
The Real-Life Bravado Banshee And The 56-Year-Old Grandmother Who Won The Custom Viper [Video]
We covered the eBay auction of the Dodge Viper SRT-10 Bravado Banshee when the car was on eBay last July. It wasn’t too surprising that the car didn’t sell, even with the bidding cresting...
Roadtrip Video: The U.K.’s Car Magazine Pits A Mustang GT vs. BMW i8 vs. Lamborghini Huracan vs. Hellcat Challenger – Who Won?
It’s always curious to see what the reaction is from foreign publications when it comes to our cars. There’s the usual litany of jokes (can’t corner, subpar materials, crude) but...
Watch As Jay Leno Cuts Loose With James Garner’s Oldsmobile Banshee – He Even Drives The Beast On The Street!
The Oldsmobile Banshee is a freak among freaks. Set up similar to an old Baja truck, it’s roughly based on a 1969 Oldsmobile body that is shortened by two feet. They were built by Vic Hickey, a...
This Subaru BRZ Is Packing A JUN-Built 2.4 Liter V8 Made From Two Kawasaki Ninja Four-Cylinders – 11,000 RPM Screaming Yellow Jacket!
The Subaru BRZ is a cool little piece that, along with it’s Scion FR-S/Toyota 86 twin, is meant to be a return to the small, lightweight and tossable rear-wheel-drive coupe that Toyota used to...
Fluffy Ride! Jay Leno Takes Gabriel Iglesias’ 1966 VW Samba Out For A Cruise And A Snack!
It takes all types to keep this hobby going, and that goes for both the vehicles and the owners. You may not be into the same kinds of vehicles as someone else, but there is still a shared...
Rust In Peace: A Collection Of RHD American Cars Found Near Cape Town, South Africa
Bryan Thompson is an automotive designer and Hemmings contributor who recently spent some time in South Africa. While tooling around shortly before having to catch a flight, he stumbled upon what...
Remember When Mitsubishi Built Good Cars? BangShift Remembers The Best Of The Three Diamonds
At one point in time, Mitsubishi built some of the baddest Japanese rides out there. From the Starion through the 3000GT, the Eclipse through the EVO series, Mitsubishis were coveted not only just in...
Video: Sleeper Perfection Is A Crusty Barn Fresh 1966 Nova Wagon Wrapped Around A Grand National Drivetrain
Prepare yourself to fall in love with the car featured below. This 1966 Nova station wagon was apparently located in a barn and as best we can tell by the exterior, that sounds accurate. Leaving the...
This video recreates all the locations from It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
When I was a kid, WLVI-TV 56 in Boston used to run It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World the Friday after Thanksgiving every year. I’ve probably watched it 40 times since. For a kid staring...
Video: This Could Be The Coolest 1957 Chevy Pickup In America – Simplicity Rules
The guys at Holley titled this video, “No Modern Amenities” taking a line that owner/builder Kelly Hawthorn uses while describing the truck. We’re freaking ga-ga over this truck....
Buddy Holly Was a Motorhead And He Died 55 Years Ago Today – We Remember Him BangShift Style!
Fifty-five years ago today, Buddy Holly’s plane crashed and claimed the lives of three of the most up-and-coming rock and roll musicians the world knew to that point. But before Buddy Holly...
Not Safe For Work: Sienna Miller Caresses The New 2015 Mustang. Arousel Is Eminent!
Take one hot actress and model, Sienna Miller, add one of the most iconic muscle cars in American history, caress softly, and stand back cause she’s gonna blow. Ford and Rankin reveal the new...
6,000hp “Top Fuel Mustang” Lives In Australia – Holy Smokes This Thing Is All-Time! (Video)
In the realm of, “holy freaking horsepower Batman!” comes this video from Australia where a crew led by Aussie drag maven Darren Di Filippo has created what they call the “Top Fuel...
We’ve Got A Video Teaser Of the Goodguys G/RS Camaro That’ll Be Unveiled At SEMA 2013 Today!
And so it begins…. Our week of non-stop new parts, new cars, new everything from the 2013 SEMA show gets going right now with this video teaser showing a couple of the more interesting angles...