This 1940 Chevrolet Film Celebrates Engines In All Their Glorious Forms
One of the basic truths that we hold to be self-evident around here is that if you are reading BangShift you love engines. You like the noise they make, the smells they give off, the parts and pieces...
Dead: Suzuki Hayabusa, The World’s Fastest Production Motorcycle
For almost twenty years, one name has stood above the others in the sport bike world: Hayabusa. The name alone is the Japanese name for the peregrine falcon, a raptor that can easily hit 200 MPH in...
Video: 2018 JE Pistons Masters of Motors At SEMA – Picking The Coolest Engines At The Show!
2018 has been a killer year for experiencing and being involved in cool stuff. A personal highpoint was being part of the judging panel for an innovative new awards program that JE Pistons came up...
2018 PRI Show Coverage: Plenty Of Goodness From The Show Floor At Indy
(Photos: Chad Reynolds) We are back with more coverage from the PRI Show in Indianapolis. PRI is, in short, SEMA with all of the gingerbread, wheel companies, and brodozers left out in the cold....
BangShift Test Drive: 2019 Challenger R/T Scat Pack Widebody – 485hp, Fender Flares, Tire Smoke, and True Muscle Car Spirit
(Photos by Dave Nutting – Words by Lohnes, Sestito, Nutting) – For a guy who does not own a Challenger, I spend inordinate amounts of time in them. Between spending a week with...
The Bloodhound SSC Project Is Dead: Broke and With No Hope Of Funding, Car Is Being Dismantled, Parts Sold
The most ambitious land speed record project in history is dead. The Bloodhound SSC project, a near decade long undertaking to design, engineer, and build the first car capable of going 1,000mph has...
Money No Object: One Bad, Black Goat – This 1971 Pontiac GTO Is Sublime!
It’s no Tri-Power car, it isn’t a Judge, and it isn’t a even the “right year” for the GTO, whether you believe that’s 1964, 1967, 1969 or 1970. It’s not 100%...
AutoMeter Hot Rod Holiday: EVERYTHING Is On Sale, Literally Everything! Check This Out
Many manufacturers run great sales around the holidays and they typically have some great deals to take advantage of. AutoMeter has taken this concept to the next level with their Hot Rod Holiday...
The Bumper Doesn’t Count As A Wheelie Bar! This Nitrous Small-Block Malibu Launches Hard!
The first time your racing machine tries to make the move from horizontal to vertical and nearly succeeds is the point where wheelie bars should really be considered. You can be forgiven if...
2018 PRI Show Photo Coverage: More Cars, More Power Plants, More Cool!
(Photos by the author) – We’re continuing on with 2018 PRI show photo coverage today with a collection of images that starts to give a pretty good idea of the cross-section of mechanical...
Cheap Racing LUV: Broke Bastard Garage Is Building A Chevrolet LUV For The Zip-Tie Drags!
If you didn’t know, Chevrolet LUV pickup trucks are a strange little kink around BangShift. Chad’s son Cole is building a monster out of one and I’ve got a pretty strong history...
2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Coverage: Our Last Photographic Blow Out From The Fall Show!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the last of our series covering the 2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals in Southwest Ohio. This gallery consists of those machines that either look like...
Final Pomona Swap Meet Of 2018: Western Metal Rust-Belters Can Only Dream Of
Recently, I saw a comment about how looking at the cars that filled up the lots at the Pomona Swap Meet qualified as “cheating” because it’s desert metal. Just to make sure I...
