Question Of The Day: How Do You Explain This Hobby To Those Who Will Never Understand It?
Call it a hobby, call it a sickness, call it whatever you feel. But if you read this site, and have an interest in just about anything we might possibly post, chances are good that you suffer from...
Daily Driver Pro Street? This 1988 Ford Thunderbird Would Look Great In A Sea Of Gray Potato-Mobiles!
Why is it that the Fox and MN-12 Ford Thunderbirds and Mercury Cougars aren’t as popular as their Ford Mustang cousin? They’re effectively the same car, just with a bit of useable...
Video: Jeff Lutz Breaks All-Time Quickest V10 Viper Record! 6.78/211 MPH and the Sound Is Gnarly!
It was a hurried program but Jeff Lutz and crew accomplished a major goal this week at Orlando Speed World Dragway and that was wresting the title of quickest V10 Viper on Earth from the hands of Sal...
Think Your Project Car Is Finished? Hot Rod Garage Is Willing To Bet It Isn’t! Watch As They Show You Where To Pick Up Extra Horsepower With Some Tuning!
Are you getting the most out of your build? Are you sure about that? It’s kind of a loaded question to ask someone who has been busting their ass, getting their car together, but it’s a...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Strap Into The Time Bomb Camaro For Some Half-Mile Runs At Ocala!
The Time Bomb Camaro, driven by brothers David and Mike Matyjasik, has been a favorite car of ours here at BangShift for years now. We’ve seen plenty of footage of this black beast ripping...
Classic YouTube: Motor Trend Television’s Review Of The LT-4 Powered 1997 Chevrolet Camaro SS 30th Anniversary
1997…things were getting better for the automotive world. The C5 Corvette had come out and was impressing auto journalists with it’s new LS1 V8. The Dodge Viper GTS was the poster car of...
Aerospace Components Dual Rear Brake Systems Delivery More Stopping Power, Control, and Holding Ability
(Words and photos by Mike Galimi) – Some things just go well in double servings like two scoops of ice cream instead one or a Double-Double for those who enjoy In-N-Out Burger. But when it...
Ebay Find: Is This 4-Valve Head One Of The Sold-Off Chrysler “A-925 Project” DOHC Hemi Heads?
When Chrysler took first, second and third at the 1964 Daytona 500, two things happened: it immediately put Bill France on high alert, and it gave the competition…namely, Ford, since GM...
Mammoth Orange County Choppers HQ Building To Be Auctioned – Bike Shop, Cafe, Bowling Alley, More
Seven years after it was built, the mammoth world head quarters for Orange County Choppers will be auctioned off in February. Located in Newburgh, New York the building was commissioned by and built...
Every Photo We’ve Posted So Far From The Grand National Roadster Show 2016 Is Right Here
Hot Rodding is on! It’s Grand National Roadster Show 2016 time, which means America’s Most Beautiful Roadster contenders and a ton of other bitchin hot rods. We made the rounds during...
BangShift Speed Records: In My Merry Oldsmobile – One Of The First Car Tunes Ever
(By Eric Rood) – The hot rodding world is familiar with car-related pop songs and even with Oldsmobile-themed songs like “Rocket 88,” but it may be news that one of the first popular...
Gearhead History Lesson: What’s a Q-Ship?
We run lots of blog items about sleepers here on BangShift and on occasion, I refer to them as “Q-Ships”. As people find these stories on their own thorugh web searches or they run...
Kevin Tetz Shows You How To Replace The Wood In Your Pickup Truck Bed At Home
How many times have you seen a bitchin patina’d pickup that has a completely rotted out wood bed in it, or a finished pretty truck that has wood that is present, but not pretty at all? It...
This 1971 Hemi Cuda Project Is Only $35,000 Which Sounds Like A Screamin’ Deal
First off, this is not an original Hemi Cuda, but it is a pretty bad ass ride that comes with all kinds of coolness. The Hemi it comes with is a Mopar Performance based Hemi that measures 478 cubic...
