Deceptive Nostalgia: We Dissect A Modern B/Nostalgia Dragster To See How Advanced It Really Is
The idea of “nostalgia” anything in drag racing other than Don Garlits making burnouts in Swamp Rat 1 is kind of a joke. Nostalgia funny cars? Look at some photos from the late 1960s or...
Best of 2016: Buddies Go Snow Wheelin’ After A Huge Blizzard In The Late 1970s – Vintage Truck Coolness
Talk to people on the eastern seaboard about the Blizzard of ’78 and they will talk about the huge storm that came up the coast and wrought havoc on every city it dumped snow on. Believe it or...
Best of 2016: A White 1993 Lincoln Town Car That Is Packing A 700 Horsepower Monster Under Its Expansive Hood
You want to build a sleeper that will work in today’s day and age? Good luck. You have two options: find a platform with a ton of aftermarket parts and support, downplay the image, and hope...
Best of 2016: Watch The Engine In The Murder Nova Go Back Together In The Pits At Lights Out 7
Shawn Ellington’s week and weekend at SGMP for Lights Out 7 got off to a harder start than he had wanted after wounding the engine of his famous Murder Nova in pre-event testing. The bad part...
Best of 2016: Onboard Ice Racing From Garfield Lake In Minnesota – Where A 1990s Buick Can Be Competitive!
There has to be some kind of unnerving feeling inside of a driver when pulling a car the size of a 1990s Buick Roadmaster onto a frozen lake. Questions emerge…for most people, those questions...
Large Barge: This 1959 Ford Wagon Has A Twin Turbo 557ci Big Block Ford And Big Meats Out Back
Well this thing is really something. If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to own something big and bad, you may want to take care of that a little early and get your fists on this 1959 Ford...
Benoit Pigeon 2016 Photo Highlight Reel: His Favorite Images From The Year That Was
(Photos by Benoit Pigeon) – Our man Benoit Pigeon has had one hell of a 2016. The guys attended events all over the place, shot zillions of photos, and even launched his own publication which...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Lincoln Park Pirates – A Ballad About Chicago’s Most Infamous Towing Company
(By Greg Rourke) – In 1972 Steve Goodman wrote this little ditty about a Chicago towing company, Lincoln Towing. They are actually Protective Parking Services, d.b.a. Lincoln Towing. Their...
Craigslist Chronicles: Who Do I Have To Kill To Buy A Truck On Craigslist?!
I’m killing some ass hat before this is over. I mean seriously, how hard is it to shoot photos with your phone, list the features, options, and mileage, and decide on a price? How hard is that?...
This Briggs Engine Has A Glass Cylinder Head!
Oh yeah, combustion is fully visible in this bad boy! Last week we had a video that showed a glass cylinder on an engine, but this is just one of the many videos the guys at 805RoadKing have put...
This Suzuki Katana-Powered Go Kart Is 100% Nuts, And We Want It!
Go Karts are cool, and you know we love them. Many gearheads and BangShifters got their start wrenching on these small four wheeled vehicles, including yours truly. I remember scrounging $200...
This Custom 6×6 Dodge Van Would Be The Most Bitchin Road Trip Machine
Vans are cool, but some of them are cooler than others. For us, our love of vans in dangerous because we like off-road vans, expedition vans, surf vans, race vans, cruiser vans, retro vans, and full...
Best of 2016: Watch The First Side By Side Three Second Pass On Drag Radials – M/T Tires Of Course!
Let the great big book of drag racing history show that the first two guys ever to turn side by side three second elapsed times on drag radials were Dwayne Mills and Scott King. Mills was driving his...
My Money Car: There’s A Guy Selling A 1998 Ford Taurus That He Glued Nickles and Pennies To For $34,500
This. This is something else. You are looking at My Money Car which is the stage name for a 1998 Taurus that’s currently for sale on Craigslist with the asking price of $34,500. If you are...
