Destroyer: The Merc9 Is A 555ci Kaase Ford Powered 1971 Mercury Cyclone That Started In NASCAR And Now Mangles Road Courses (Video)
(Photo credit: Merc9.com) – BangShifter Todd Staege gets the credit for tipping us off to one of the most awesome road racing cars we have ever seen in the form of the absolutely evil Merc9, a...
Rough Start: Here’s How You Go Over The Budget Properly: Big Block Blazer!
It isn’t everyday I choose to bypass the budget part of the Rough Start series. Five thousand dollars should be plenty of coin to find and fix up something that will, at the very least, make...
Sleeper Fun: Watch A 1980s Dodge Ramcharger Pull a Massive Wheelstand!
There are sleepers and then there are sleepers. We got tipped off to a thread over on YellowBullet that started off featuring a wild Dodge Ramcharger truck down in Louisiana and quickly filled up...
Unhinged: Now The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Is Saying That They Don’t Trust You To Hit The Brakes
How important are you behind the wheel? As the human being in control of the two-ton mass of metal, plastic, glass and gas, how in control do you feel? How in control should you be? Should you be in...
Mow Your Own Lawn: These Garden Pulling Lawn Tractors Are Too Cool!
If there is one thing that I’m actually looking forward to with the metric tons of rain that is falling at BangShift Mid-West right now, it’s lawn care season. There is little more I love...
Watch Mark Stielow Run Down, Chew Up, And Blow Off, A Porsche in His Awesome Hellfire Camaro – Porsche Guy Didn’t Want Him Coming By!
One of Mark Stielow’s finest pro touring Camaros which he dubbed “Hellfire” is a pro touring tour de force. With 957hp under the hood, all of the accumulated years of Mark’s...
Properly Done: This 1988 Ford Escort RS Turbo Is How A Quick Small Car Should Be
In the UK, they had the RWD Ford Escort that we all know from rally footage…you know, small little four-banger screamers that could toss their hips out faster than Shakira on a good night with...
NHRA Le Grand National Sanair More Historic And Never Before Published Photos! Epic Linda Vaughn Shots Inside!
(Photos by Bob Boudreau) – So this is one of those “quality over quantity” galleries. Why? Well there are two sequences of photos we have actually removed from this gallery...
Wanna Play At The Hoonigan’s New Playground? Here’s The Information You Need To Know!
So Hoonigan now has a place to play that is far enough away from the city that they shouldn’t have any more issues with complaining neighbors or the police and fire departments showing up and...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Are The Roughest Conditions You Have Ever Wrenched In?
This one should be interesting! This question came to my mind as I talked to a guy yesterday who works outside repairing equipment. He was recently working in -20 weather and it made my cringe....
Setting Up The 35th Annual NHRA Arizona Nationals – Before Burning Nitro!
NHRA’s 2019 Mello Yello drag racing season began a couple of weeks ago with the Pomona Winternationals where Doug Kalitta, Robert Hight and Bo Butner grabbed the Wallys for their efforts in the PRO...
All The Wants: This 454ci Former Dodge NASCAR Engine Rules
If you have a pile of dough and are looking for an engine that will 100% be the only one in your town, city, or county, this is the piece you need. Built by Ernie Elliot this Dodge R5 engine now...
The Grasshopper: This Petrolicious Look At A 1962 AC Bristol And Its interesting Owner Is Cool
If there is one thing that I have learned over the years here at BangShift and everywhere else in the automotive world it’s that every car and every person has their own story. In this case we...
Watch The 1988 Superbowl of Drag Racing Right Here – The Firebird Raceway Pre-Season Test Match Race Was Rocking!
So as you are reading this, pretty much every single NHRA nitro team is descending upon what is now known as Wildhorse Pass Raceway for the 35th running of the national event there. Phoenix is also...
