This 1980s USHRA Compilation Will Rocket You Back To Your Childhood
Ok fine, if not all the way back to your childhood, at least about 30 years in the past. So my kids were off from school all last week and we did some fun stuff that I’ll be blogging about here...
Vintage Crash Testing Video: It Is A Darned Good Thing That They Don’t Build ‘Em Like They Used To
Crash testing has been an integral part of automotive design for decades. It was GM who developed their own crash dummies in the 1950s and then continued to advance the technology through today were...
2016 East Coast Indoor Nationals Coverage – Street Freaks, Hot Rods, Muscle, and More!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – For nearly 30 years the East Coast Indoor Nationals have provided great winter respite for car freaks, racers, and lovers of all things with wheels. The show is held...
Morning Symphony: Watch and Listen To A Pair Of Thundering Pro Nitrous Machines Run Side By Side 3.80s – Crank It Up!
When drag racing fans hear the names Travis Harvey and Shannon Jenkins announced as being on the starting line next to each other, they run to the fence to watch. Why? Jenkins is one of drag...
Ride Along In An AMA Grand National Ice Race – Sideways On Two Wheels!
The Grand National Ice Race in Michigan is one of the American Motorcyclist Association’s stand-alone events that tests rider and rig on the frozen surface of Lake Pontiac. Basic premise: take...
The Best Of World Rally Championship 2016 – These Drivers Are Completely Mental
World Rally Championship competition was as hot and heavy in 2016 as it has ever been. While Ford is the only name that fans of domestic cars would likely recognize in the series, that does not...
Aerospace Components Pro Eliminator and Pro Terminator Shifters – Nail The Gears With Style And Precision Quality
The world of sportsman drag racing is now one of surgical precision. Cars that are so refined and so well built that they can repeat run after run within a couple hundredths of a second or less. Know...
Late-Model Restomod: A 1989 GMC Jimmy With A Vortec 4.2 Inline-Six!
As much as modern engines have improved in the last twenty years, it is kind of surprising that we aren’t seeing more of what we are about to show you: in this case, forum member Tardis454...
Best of 2016: Vintage 1970 Video From The Merrill Ice Drags Is Great!
We talk a lot about the Merrill Ice Drags which has been a Wisconsin institution since 1965 and that’s because they still personify the spirit of drag racing in its purest form. Maybe it sounds...
Best of 2016: Incredible Photos Of The Astro Spiral Jump During Testing With Video!
(Photos from Al Benker collection) – You are not going to find anything more awesome than the images we have below as provided to us by former Calspan welder and fabricator (and BS reader!) Al...
Hot Rod Hullabaloo 2016: Vintage Race Cars and Killer Stuff You’ll Love
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Last collection of photos from the 2016 Hullabaloo. This isn’t a group of ‘the rest’ as sometimes is the case. In here we’ve got some serious...
This 1976 Ford (With a 1979 Nose Clip) Has Big Block Power, A Clutch Pedal, And Plenty Of Altitude
I have long shared my love of late 1960s through 1970s Ford trucks. It has to be a childhood thing as that’s where I first got hooked on these suckers, riding in the back of my dad’s king...
Happy New Year 2017!!! Here’s To All Of You, From All Of Us At BangShift.com!
(Photos by David Whealon, Charles Wickam, and Joe Grippo) – Happy New Year! It’s official, 2017 is here. We just pulled the chutes on 2016 and now it’s time to pull into the water...
Great Video: Watch Gas Monkey’s Aaron Kaufman Hammer On His 1963 Falcon In Tick Tock
(Now that Aaron Kaufman has left Gas Monkey Garage we thought it would be a good time to show you Tick Tock again. Who knows, making this video may have been the moment when Kaufman decided to...
