Cruisin’ For A Cure 2018 Photos Galore: We Love This Show, The Cause, and The Cars!
(Photos by Wes Allison) – That lead image? That is basically peak Vega. The turbine wheels, the orange on whatever the hell color that is, the square snorkel scoop. Yes, there’s no more...
Watch An AFCO Shock Get Put Through Its Paces On A Sprint Car Down Under!
AFCO makes some of the toughest and best shocks in the suspension business. Know why? The main reason is because they race their stuff and they race it HARD. From autocrossing pro street cars to wild...
Goodbye, Jimmy: New England Based Drag Racing Legend Jimmy King Has Died – 1971 Gatornationals Winner, Great Guy
In crummy news today, we are sad to report on the passing of New England drag racing legend Jimmy King, driver of the famed King and Marshall top fuel dragster and later their El Diablo nitro funny...
2018 Cruisin’ For A Cure Car Show Photo Coverage: A One Day SoCal Hot Rodding Extravaganza – Good Stuff
(Photos by Wes Allison) – We’re back with more coverage from the 2018 Cruisin For A Cure car show that took over swaths of SoCal a few weeks ago. Whenever you get more than 3,000 cool...
Blowed Up: Check Out The Remains of This Severely Dead Kawasaki V-Twin Engine – OUCH!
(By Doug Gregory) – We all know nitro is a heartless mistress and will inflict whatever damage to expensive engines she chooses. Gasoline can be the bratty little sister who will also have her...
2018 Hot Rod Hullabaloo Was Another Great Event: BangShift Photos Coverage Here!
(Photos and words by Doug Gregory) – Rain, rain, and more Rain. However, there are periods between the rain sessions where it’s not actual precipitation and is instead simple 90%+...
2018 Cynthiana Rod Run Coverage: Tractors, Trucks, and Working Stuff From The Show!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This collection and the next will probably be the most-liked by our beloved editor. Brian has a thing for ‘working’ vehicles whether it be farm...
Mark Williams Enterprises Rear End Options Offer Convenience, Options, Quality, and Engineering – Why Consider Anyone Else?
Mark Williams Enterprises is known for a host of effective, hardcore, and high quality products. They are really, really well known for their rear axles and the associated components that they have...
In 1967 The GMC Advertising Department Apparently Lost Their Minds – Watch Three Weird Truck Ads
There have been plenty of weird, quizzical, and downright strange car commercials over the years but the GMC advertising department or agency really cornered the market in 1967. We’re not sure...
Drag History Video: Here’s the Broadcast Of The 1988 IHRA Texas Nationals – The Weekend The 5-Second Barrier Fell
They’re just numbers. They are just digits on a slip of paper or on a scoreboard. That’s what the world sees. That’s what people who have never measured themselves against time,...
Epic Video: Footage Of Evel Knievel’s Huge Custom 1974 Mack Truck At The Mack Factory In The 1970s
I’ve shared my opinion of Evel Knievel many times here on the pages of BangShift. He was an insanely courageous man certainly no one that will ever be considered for sainthood. All that...
Historic Drag Video: This Footage From The 1981 Olympics Of Drag Racing Is Awesome
Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week rolls into historic Great Lakes Dragaway today. This place, which rose to prominence behind the creative, wacky, and tireless work of the late Broadway Bob Metzler is cool....
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s the Worst Engine You’ve Ever Owned?
After a couple if years ago after realizing that the horrible engine in our former family truckster 2006 Pacifica consumed motor oil at roughly the same rate it consumed gasoline, I got to thinking...
Watch The 1980s Monster Truck Taurus Pull The Sled With Mondo Rake And Drive Over Buses
Jack Willman’s Taurus was one of my favorite monster trucks of the 1980s. The always clean, always shined up, and always American flag wearing Chevrolet was a part of virtually every monster...
