Best Of 2015: Here’s A Proper Barn Find: A Turbonique T-16 Rocket Go Kart Was Found In A Barn In Alberta
Turbonique only existed because the rule book and safety manual were both thrown out of the window when Gene Middlebrooks started screwing around with monopropellant thrust systems. This...
Rusty Riches? Would You Throw Down $5,000 For This 1972 Challenger “Project”? Someone Did
For starters don’t think that the tone of this item is against the guy selling the car. Far from it. The seller here had a ton of clean photos, an upfront approach, and made no bones about the...
Inexperienced, Undereducated Truck Driver Destroys Indiana Bridge Built In 1880
(Photos and statement by Orange County Indiana Law Enforcement) – When engineers designed the iron bridge in Paoli they tried to account for lots of things. Unfortuantely they could not...
THE Original Goodguy Is Gone: Gary Meadors, Goodguys Founder, Has Passed.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this. Gary Meadors, the Founder and Chairman of Goodguys Rod and Custom Association died suddenly today. When I got the news this afternoon I found myself...
Best of BangShift: This Incredible Boat Is Powered By A Supercharged Allison V1710 Aircraft Engine
No one does over the top excess like serious boaters and boat builders. Over the years we have posted about some boats here at BangShift but this thing is absolutely in a class by itself and likely...
Best Of BangShift 2015: What To Do With A 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara During The Winter From Hell
(Photos and snow to the face by Dave Nutting) – I’m by no means an overly intelligent guy but when the chance to nab the keys to a 2015 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara presented...
Plant Tour: A Visit To FK Rod Ends And Fragola Performance Systems – Making Components In The USA The Right Way
Sometimes even the best laid plans take a while to play out and because of Ma Nature’s open assault on the New England area this winter, it took way too long for me to make the couple hour...
Best Of BS 2015: Watch This Lame Looking Eagle Summit Hand A Mustang And A Supra Their Lunch At The Drag Strip
When I first started announcing drag racing half a lifetime ago, I was the test and tune night guy. Frankly, there are days that I long for that job again because everyone completely underestimates...
Legendary Drag Racer Jim “Superman” Nicoll Has Died – Survived Horrendous 1970 US Nationals Top Fuel Wreck
(Photos credit: NHRA/NationalDragster.com) – One of the most colorful characters in drag racing’s brilliant past has died. Jim “Superman” Nicoll who was the 1970 Drag News...
Best Of BS 2015: Kenny Reece’s “3-to-1” 427-powered Supermodified
In the quest for racing supremacy, creative engineering becomes the tool of the imaginative and certain cars push (and sometimes, exceed) the boundaries of the established rules. You know several...
Best Of BS 2015: We’d Ask For The Dashcam Footage From This Truck Vs. Giant Sawblade Accident, But All We’d Hear Is Screaming
It’s not photoshop. That is a big-ass saw blade jammed two feet deep into the nose of a JMC truck in China. Just when you thought Russia had the market cornered on strange automobile accidents,...
Best Of BS 2015: The Most American “V8 Interceptor” We Could Find
(This Javelin-turned-V8 Interceptor was easily one of this year’s most talked about eBay finds of this year. It’s not like Australian Falcons are common in the States, so creativity is a...
Best Of BangShift: Harvest Brigade – How Government, Industry, And Farmers Fed The Country During WWII
The story of the Massey-Harris Harvest Brigade is an interesting one because it combines elements of opportunistic business practices, an honest measure of good will and forward thinking, the...
