Best of 2019: 2018 Mercedes-AMG S63 – Beyond Indulgence
Sampling all that life has to offer should be a goal of every man, woman and child, right? Works well for food, works well for music, travel and literature, so theoretically it should work for the...
Best of 2019: This Free-Fall Lifeboat Launch Turns Into The Vomit Comet In One Quick Motion!
About this time last year, I rode a full-size ship for the first time when we went on a cruise on Royal Caribbean up the Northeast Atlantic. I wasn’t sure what to expect…the last time I...
Best of 2019: The Buzzin’ Half-Dozen – Six-Cylinder Opalas Cutting Loose In Brazil
There are two ways to view the Chevrolet 250ci inline-six. There’s the way that most people I know see them: the base-model engine of many a GM product, solid and robust, but about as exciting...
Best of 2019: Watch Petter Solberg Rip His Subaru Through The Fench Alps – Insanity
(By Eric Rood) – The 2016 World Rally Championship kicks off this weekend as it usually does with the monumental Rallye Monte Carlo and what better way is there to prepare than to watch this...
Best of 2019: A 1978 Plymouth Fury A38 With A Modified 440 Under The Hood
Before any one of you makes the comment, yes, I’d donate body parts to science for this car. Unhesitatingly. What is a 1978 Fury’s draw for me? Why is the prototypical 1970s blah-mobile...
Merry Christmas from BangShift.com – We Hope Everyone Has A Great Day!
A Merry Christmas to you, BangShifters! We hope that you are enjoying the magic that this day brings, whether young or old. Regardless of whether it’s presents, family time, or the time away...
Best of 2019: Watch This Dragster Perform A Massive Fire Burnout In Ultra-Slow Motion. This Is Neat!
Santa pod’s annual “drag-stalgia” event is a huge gathering of vintage drag racing fans from all over Europe. We’re going to venture to say that it is the largest nostalgia...
A VISIT FROM ST. GARLITS – A BangShifty Adaptation Of The Classic!
Back in 2005 I adapted the famous poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore into the drag race themed “A Visit From St. Garlits”. The adaptation was a pretty...
Best of 2019: FoxKart – How An Ohio-Rotted 1986 Mustang Convertible Got A Second Lease On Life!
The first words that came out of my mouth once I exited the car were as straightforward as it gets: “How the hell do you have a car like this in a neighborhood that has to have the HOA from...
Best of 2019: This 1981 Mercury Cougar Keeps The Sleeper Vibe Going!
A quick question for you, readers: which was worse, the Ford LTD II-based Cougar or the square-Fox version that was built from 1980-82? If you are asking me, I’m going to go with the Fox...
Best of 2019: Hell In A Handbasket: This Fiat 600 Is A Center Steer, 9-Second Quarter Mile, Argentinean Sensation (Video)
There are people who think that the internet will be the ruination of us all one day and those people are probably right, but the thing sure has its upsides, too. Take Pablo Diaz and his incredible...
Best of 2019: The Union Pacific #4014 Big Boy and #844 Steam Locomotives In Action
I don’t know of any little kid that isn’t fascinated by trains. Whether it was listening to the freight trains of the Illinois Central line rip past the backyard of my stepmother’s...
Best of 2019: A Boeing 787 Hit 801 MPH Ground Speed Flying To London!
Pretty much every airliner made develops nicknames for any variety of reasons. The all too common Boeing 737? It’s known as FLUF…”fat little ugly” and you can figure the rest...
Best of 2019: The Ford SVT Thunderbird Proposals – When Ford Decided Give The ‘Bird The Bird
In the mid-1990s, a horsepower war was firing off that consumers couldn’t quite access. Yes, there was the usual Mustang vs. Camaro/Firebird deal that was heating up, but those cars were still...
