Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!
I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...
This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!
Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...
More Customs, Hot Rods, And Trucks From The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags 2015
The Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags 2015 might be the last to be held at Irwindale Speedway since it’s impending close date is still up in the air. But the mood was not dampened by this...
More Hot Rods, Customs, And Lowriders Photos From The Mooneyes X-Mas Party And Drags 2015
We’ve got even more photos from the Mooneyes X-Mas Party and Drags 2015 and we figured we should share. If you’ve been looking at all the others that we posted this week then you know...
Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Automotive Archeology From The Woods Of Vermont
Seeing the photos that Lohnes and Fitzgerald took at Gates Auto Salvage keeps bringing up the word “haunting” into my head. It’s not hard to see why: in amongst the thin trees, you...
Here Is The Answer, And Winner, Of Our “Guess What This Ridetech Shockwave Is Bolted To” Contest
ANSWER: A Pulling Tractor, specifically the TS Performance Pro Stock John Deere Pulling Tractor called “Young Buck”. It’s Brad Moss’s rig and it is one bad piece of machinery that...
Outlaw Mud Truck Fun – D.O.T. Legal Tires And A Heavy Right Foot Makes For Some Excellent Video!
Wide open throttle on a full-kill race vehicle isn’t something that is achieved often, and when it is the results are always spectacular. Mud trucks do a good job of converting the raw power of...
Question Of The Day: What Would You Do With This Twin-Turbocharged 1986 Ford Truck?
If there ever was a sleeper tuned to the readers of BangShift, this would be the second one I’ve seen…the first one, the 1980 Chevrolet “Farmer John” special, was snapped up...
SCTA El Mirage Final Meet Of 2015: More Photos From The Dry Lake Bed!
(Photos: Zane McNary) With the situation at the Bonneville Salt Flats becoming more and more questionable, El Mirage is looking more and more stable for land speed racing fans and competitors. With...
The PRI Show Is Like Toys R Us And Disneyland For Hard Core Racing Fanatics, And We’ve Got Photos
I’ve been going to the SEMA Show for 15 years and it’s awesome, but when I went to the PRI Show for the first time a few years ago I felt like I had died and gone to race car guy heaven....
Classic YouTube: Breaking In The New Dyno By Running A Nitrous-Sniffing Lawnmower On The Rollers!
You wake up early in the morning and prepare yourself for a long day of work. It will be worth it, you tell yourself. The new DynoJet will be done today. You will get all of your friends together,...
Rally Gallery: The Inaugural Northwest RallySprint At DirtFish Rally School In Snoqualmie, Washington!
(Photos: Tedrick Mealy via OpenPaddock.net) Winter doesn’t mean that every form of motorsports shuts down and returns to the garage until spring. The off-roaders have been romping in the fall...
Rough Start, International Edition: A Clean Chevrolet Opala From Mexico That Is Almost Cheap Enough For A Rough Start!
I’ll admit right off of the bat that I was way off of the deep end when I found myself pawing through Mercado Libre for cars. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s essentially...
This Is The New NHRA Pro Stock Induction System For 2016. Are They Doing It Wrong?
This is how most NHRA Pro Stock teams are going to be handling their induction systems for 2016, since they are now converting to EFI, but could they be leaving things on the table? Are they thinking...
