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...
Who’s Dumber Video: Would You Consider The Driver Or The Crowd The Larger Idiot Here?
I have never claimed to be a very smart person but I have also never copped to being an idiot either. Virtually every person that you will see in this video is dumb. There’s the guy driving a...
ARP Releases Product Guide For Gen III Hemi Engine – High Performance Fasteners Are Here!
ARP is the worldwide leader in high performance fasteners and every time they release new products we get excited. Bolts would not seem to be a thing to get overly wound up about but that’s...
The Aussies Attack No Mercy 9 And Are Turning Heads Every Which Way
Australians, or at least racing Australians, are a strange lot. They know it, we know it, everyone just knows it. But that’s not the only reason we love them and are thrilled to see them at any...
No Mercy 9’s Radial VS The World Top 16, Racing For $50,000!
Radial vs The World, the granddaddy of all radial classes, is competing for $50,000 here at No Mercy 9. These are the top 16 qualifiers who are battling it out for the title and the check....
