We Wish Chevrolet Had Built Half Ton Crew Cab Short Bed Trucks Like This One
Now you can walk into your Chevrolet dealer and buy a brand new half ton short bed crew cab truck. But you couldn’t in the square body era. And that sucked. Don’t get me wrong, we...
RideTech Tri-Five Chevrolet StreetGrip Is Now Shipping! Make Your Chevy Turn Without Making Your Wallet Burn!
We have been on board with RideTech’s StreetGrip system since the beginning as you well know. Our installation of the kit on a 1970 El Camino was a popular story and it illustrated to us how...
Video: Watch The Biggest And Baddest Ford Production V8 Of All Time Shoot Fire And Sound Pissed! 1100ci!
That’s right, the biggest and baddest ass production Ford built V8 in the company’s long history was an 1100ci, all alumimum, dual overhead cam, 32-valve piece that made over 1,000 lb/ft...
Sunday Movie Day: Cledus Snow Saves The Day In His Big Rig At The End Of Smokey And The Bandit I
In a recent conversation with friends, we talked about how Smokey and the Bandit may have become the largest grossing movie of 1977 had it not run into another small sci-fi flick with the title of...
BangShift Question of the Day: Who is the best make/model specific engine builder ever?
We were at the drags last night chatting it up with several BangShift fans and all of the guys were devotees of different makes of cars. The conversation arose about guys who became known for...
Watch Jack Beckman Suffer One Of The Worst Funny Car Explosions Of All Time At NHRA Epping
The NHRA New England Nationals event had already delivered some pretty amazing stuff by the time that Saturday afternoon had rolled around. Historically quick runs in classes from super stock to...
Watch As This Ford Mondeo Touring Car Runs The Verzegnis Hillclimb In Italy!
Back when the channel was called Speedvision and they showed racing, I used to watch tons upon tons of touring car racing, and cars like this Ford Mondeo were to blame. The names might not have been...
You Won’t Do Better For The Price: This 1980 Chevrolet Malibu Is Too Good To Pass Up!
This was the car I dreamt about in high school, and still lust after. Right here…it’s all here. An A/G-body Malibu coupe, clean body, with a dark-colored exterior any an interior that...
This 1970 Corvette Is The Right Kind Of Retro! Etched Glass, Killer Paint, And A Blown Small Block!
Deep in the piles of car mags that I read through, there was one particular rag from 1978 that really captured my attention. Amazingly enough, it wasn’t because it was a swimsuit issue, it was...
Morning Symphony: Listen To This Lola T70 Rip Around Silverstone With Andrew Jordan At The Wheel!
This is what five liters of V8 can really do when cut loose. This is a Lola T70, a monster sports car competitor from the late 1960s. Almost all of the T70s made were Chevrolet powered, and were...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Pink Bugs, Bad Gears And More!
Congratulations to the class of 2016! Welcome to the end of your twelve years of fun in the school system. Buckle up, kids, because the fun has only just begun. As we go from one graduation to...
Tony Quinn’s 850-horsepower Ford Focus is a proper Pikes Peak beast from Down Under
Every year, Pikes Peak International Hill Climb brings some of the biggest automotive freaks out of the woodwork with some fascinating and unique one-off machinery. Certainly, Nobuhiro “Monster”...
The BS Top 11: Most Violent and Hardcore Parts/Substances
For this week’s Top 11, we decided to go straight to where we live, naming the most violent stuff in the world of gearheads. These are the parts we wish we could use to full effect every day of the...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Maybellene – Chuck Berry (1955)
Chuck Berry always seemed to be having issues with women and cars at the same time. There was the chick whose “safety belt wouldn’t budge” and in this song there is the famously...
