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....
We’ve Got More Photos From The NMCA West AutoX In California
(Photos by Cole Reynolds) This is our second batch of photos from the NMCA West AutoX, where Southern California Autocross fanatics descended on Fontana’s Auto Club California Speedway this month...
The USCA Brings Autocross, Speed Stop, And Road Course Action To Fontana’s California Speedway
Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street car puts the hottest pro touring machines in America, on the track to battle it out for supremacy. The Ultimate Street Car Association gives these...
This 1984 K10 Chevrolet 4×4 Pickup Is Throwback Perfection
If you are a regular reader of BANGshift.com, you know that I have a weakness for GM squarebody pickup trucks. Usually, I’m all over the lowered variety, but I do love a 4×4 truck on...
This IMSA Outfitted 1970 Boss 302 Mustang Is Tearing It Up, And Catching Factory Porsches At Monterey
As muscle car enthusiasts we are all familiar with Trans Am racing cars of the 1960’s and 1970’s, where for the most part the bodies were stock or close. But there was lots of other...
A 1953 Willys Aero? You Don’t See These Very Often, But This One Is Pretty Darn Cool!
Most everyone knows Willys for either building Jeeps or every cool gasser. But the truth is they built other cars too, like this 1953 Willys Aero that we found for sale on Facebook Marketplace....
