Inspiration Video: Greg Mayton’s Twin-Turbocharged 1987 Cougar Lapping At Beech Bend
To start a build of any kind, you need to have some kind of inspiration or vision. I had neither when I dragged the Dirty Cougar home. I had enough money to purchase the Mercury and a suspicion that...
Rescue Me Please: This Donated 1979 Hurst/Olds Is Sitting In A Copart Lot And Is Up For Auction!
Oh, this is sadness. I don’t go on Copart often, but every now and then I’m linked to the site for one reason or another via social media and this time, it’s a heartbeaker. Three...
Aeromotive Named the Official Fuel System for Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School
It is always neat when two great teams get together for their mutual benefit. In this case it is the team at Aeromotive and the team at Frank Hauley’s Drag Racing School. This is a great deal...
Bob Tasca Jr’s Tunnel Port 427 Powered 1968 Torino Surfaces Ater 35 Years Of Slumber!
There’s something to be said for being the son of a legend, especially when said legend is at the height of his hot rodding powers. Bob and Carl Tasca are the sons of the late “Big...
Rough Start: 1989 Merkur XR4ti – Turbo Ford With A German Accent For The Dirt!
At the January King of the Heap race, a Merkur XR4ti showed up. The body had been sitting in a field for quite some time and the engine was fresh enough, but the rumor mill was flying about the...
The American Powertrain Tuesday Shift: A Supercharged Straight Eight, A Clutch Pedal, And A Hill Climb
We live in an exceptionally neat age where things we see on a magazine page will suddenly roar to life in front of our very eyes in video form. That’s exactly what you are about to watch. The...
The Story Of Finnegan’s Box Truck Continues! When A Working Tape Deck Is The Highlight, How Bad Was The Low?
If you didn’t catch the first part of the story of this rather expansive square-body monster that Finnegan bought for himself, you need to check that out first. Trust us, you want and need the...
Money No Object: This 1972 Pontiac LeMans Convertible Has Us Dreaming Of Warmer Days
If you are one of the people who clamor for the first snowfall of the year, I single-handedly blame you for the current situation outside of my front door. It is a misty, gray, muddy mess at...
Big Toys: Mega Truck Short Course Racing From Tulsa Raceway Park
Mega trucks are a curious thing. They are like art in a way: they only exist for the sake of existing. They don’t work. They don’t have any intrinsic purpose other than bringing...
Unveiled: 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 – Heeere, Kitty Kitty…
In the late 1960s, the fight wasn’t so much Mustang versus Camaro as it was Ford versus Mopar. The setting was NASCAR, the cars were the special aerodynamically-tuned jobs and the speeds were...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Most Embarrassing Mechanical Mistake You’ve Made?
For all you yukksters out there, skip answers like, “Buying a Ford/Chevrolet/Dodge” that’s not the intention of this question. No, we want to know a screw up you have made while...
Hover Torquer: This Video Feature Of A Wildly Low Slung 1958 Ford C550 Is Awesome – Cummins Power, Burnouts, More!
This is one wild truck. It has the visual impact of a sledgehammer and the truck has a cool backstory and build story as well. The 1958 Ford C550 cab was found intact in a junkyard and the cab along...
This Little 1970 Datsun U521 Crew Cab Truck Is Rare, Weird, and Kind Of Awesome
As we speed toward our 30,000th blog item here at BangShift there are some things that continue to surprise us. Firstly is seeing a car or a type of car that we have never seen before or never knew...
Watch This Awesome Saab Sonnett Bonneville Record Holder Make A Dyno Pull With Its 3-Cylinder 2-Stroke Engine!
The Saab Sonnett was a minuscule sports car offered by the Swedish company in three different generations. Small, light, front wheel drive, and fun to operate, they were not sold in huge numbers here...
