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Top 11: The Cars McTaggart Did Not Expect To See On Vacation In Europe
As I headed towards the British Isles for my vacation, first and foremost on my mind was all of the cars that I would expect to see while I was there. No, seriously: after watching bootlegged copies...
SEMA Preview: Nine Rides We Could Do Without Seeing On The Floor
SEMA can be the best that the automotive arena has to offer, but sometimes beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Both times I’ve gone, I’ve found myself wondering just how a particular...
Friday Fact: Stirling Moss’s Sister Pat Moss-Carlsson Was An Ultra Talented Championship Rally Driver – Here’s Her Story
People that are into racing like to talk about “natural drivers” or those who just seem to be blessed with an innate ability behind the wheel of a race car to make it dance, skate, slide,...
Saturday Night Nitro: Awesome Nitro Flames, Fast Funny Cars and Jets At Famoso Raceway In Bakersfield
(Words by Darr Hawthorne – Photos by Jeff & Mike Burghardt and Zak Hawthorne) Going into the third year, Saturday Night Nitro has evolved into an awesome event for west coast funny car...
Back In The 1950s Through 1970s, The Sears Catalog Was Jammed Full Of Cool Car Stuff, Check It Out Here
When I was a kid in the 1970s, I learned a lot from car magazines like everybody else. The Fitzgeralds weren’t the Rockefellers, though, and we didn’t have fancy things like...
BangShift Top 11: Top 11 Vehicles From The Year Nutting Was Born (1984)
This week, Brian, Chad and I are going to be listing eleven of the best production vehicles from the year that we were born. which in my case is 1984. Setting some ground rules here, I’m going to...
Ultimate Sleepers And Upset Wins Video That Will Make You Think Twice Before Squaring Off Against Anything
We’ve seen some sleepers in our day. You know, the car that looks unassuming, but somehow beats everything it lines up against? That’s a sleeper, and this video has got a ton of great...
The 2013 BangShift Awards – Awards That Have No Meaning And Very Little Value Inside!
(Photos by Dave Nutting, the author, random people about town, Charles Wickam, and a cat named Boots) – Hello and welcome to the 2013 BangShift Awards For Automotive Excellence. These awards...
Barnstormin’: The 80s Guys Are Coming…..
One of the coolest things about my travels and experiences in 2013 is the clear signal that I have gotten from lots of guys in my age bracket (late 20s, early 30s) regarding the cars we looked at...
Sand Drags Insanity: Big Horsepower And Nitro On The Dirt At Soboba! Gallery and Race Report
(Words and Photos by Darr Hawthorne) -After spending the last six weekends at one dragstrip or another and a week at the Vegas SEMA Show, for me it was a coin flip if I’d do it on one more weekend...
Barnstormin’: These Guys OWN Low-Buck
Dave Nutting was full of questions on the way to the Vermonster 4×4 Snow Bog last weekend and I was full of hypothetical answers. As many of you loyal readers out there know, I love trucks....
Event Gallery: The 2012 Carlisle Truck Nationals
(Photos by John Button) – We’ve never been afraid to express our love of trucks here at BangShift. Chad is a reformed mini-truck guy, I love mud trucks, big rigs, and stuff that runs out...
Question of the Day: Given the Chance, What Historic Race Car Would You Drive?
When writing about Cotton Owens’ passing yesterday, I of course thought of his cool “Cotton Picker” match bash wagon right off the bat. It got me to thinking about what single race...