Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Guess Who’s In Trouble Over Diesels This Week!
It’s been another busy week at BangShift HQ…Chad brought you nitro awesomeness from the Northern Nationals at US 131, I spent the weekend drowning in Tri-Five Chevrolet heaven, and...
Salt Ghost: Check Out The Story Of This Triumph’s Return To The Salt After Nearly Forty Years!
As a whole mess of antsy racers wait for the salt flats at Bonneville to dry out for speed trials, we felt like this would be the perfect time to showcase the story of a Triumph motorcycle that has...
Problem, Fixed: The Coyote-Swapped, RWD Converted Fusion Is Alive And Kicking Ass!
Australians got the Falcon all the way up until Australian production got cosigned to history. You could get one meek and mild with a turbocharged four. You could choose one wicked six that could...
Money No Object: The Ridler Award-Winning “Imagine” 1957 Chevrolet
Let’s not beat around the bush: when the 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air known as “Imagine” was announced as the 2018 Ridler Award winner, there was controversy. First off, because the car...
Beta Testing Gone Wrong: Here’s The First Publicly Crashed C8 Corvette!
It was bound to happen. Eventually, a C8 Corvette was going to bite the dust outside of official crash testing procedures. We expected the first one to appear in Copart, or maybe at Cleveland Race...
Bonneville Record Breaker: This 1963 Film Shows Andy Granatelli Hauling On The Salt
Here’s some fun Bonneville video but it ain’t from speed week! Nope this video was made in 1963 by Studebaker to promote the safety and performance of the beautiful Avanti model. The...
Flyin Blind: Watch Jim Pace Haul Around Spa In Driving Rain Looking Through A Broken Opaque Windshield
Jim Pace has been our adopted road racing boss here at BangShift for years. This video may be his crowning one here on these electronic pages. Why? You are about to watch the man take one of the most...
2019 Danchuk Tri-Five Nationals: Celebrating Three Years Of Chevrolet In One Massive Throw-Down!
Bowling Green is home of the Corvette, right? Not this weekend. Right now, Chevrolet’s sports car is taking one huge backseat to the legendary Tri-Five Chevrolets. Be it 150, 210, Bel Air,...
The Bad Obsession Boys Cummins Swap Their Escargot Car Hauler Project
Cummins swapping a square body or something like that has become sort of common, even if it is a lot of work, but when the Bad Obsession Motorsports boys from England decided they needed to dump...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Would You Love To See Return To Drag Racing?
Nitro. Nitrous. Personalities. Actual names on the cars instead of sponsorships. Funny car bodies that don’t look like someone did quick bar-soap art while scrubbing themselves down in the...
Morning Symphony: Bugatti EB110 SS LeMans and IMSA Racers – Stretching The Legs Of Giants
From the moment you first hear the engine and see the livery adorning the body, a race car is all about getting your attention and holding onto it. That’s the truth…most race cars are...
Pro-Jacks: The Most Bad Ass Race Car Accessory You’ll Have That Doesn’t Make It Faster
In this video the always entertaining Tim McAmis talks about Pro-Jacks. On their own, Pro-Jacks won’t make your car quicker or faster, but they are one of the more bad ass things you can have...
Down The Rabbit Hole: The Lost Volkswagen/Checker Taxi Prototype Has Resurfaced!
Checker Motors knew that they had to get their taxi products to be more fuel efficient. They also knew that their Marathon/A11 line was beyond ancient and needed to be replaced as soon as possible....
