100% BangShift Approved Video: Watch Jim Pace Haul Ass Around Sebring In A Lola T70 Can Am Car – Ford V8 Power!
Jim Pace is our adopted maniac road racer here at BangShift. Pace is always wheeling something awesome and lots of times it is vintage or historic. In this video he is running an old Lola T70 Spyder...
Motorized Freak of the Week: Nutso Hungarian Oil-Well Firefighting Tank
Many of you may have seen this beast before, but for those of you who haven’t, know that it uses its power for good and not evil. What you’re looking at is the world’s most badass...
This Six Second Barracuda Is Packing A Twin Turbocharged Hemi And Attitude For Days – Really Neat Car
One of the reasons that races like the Street Car Super Nationals and the cars that populate said races have become so popular is because they actually look like cars. Yes, they are all muscled up,...
1963 425hp 409 Built By The Late Dale Armstrong For Sale On eBay – Claimed To Be One Of Last Engines The Great Man Built
The passing of Dale Armstrong was one of the sadder moments of 2014 for drag racing fans. The mechanical genius had so many ideas and so much skill in sorting them out that his influence still looms...
Donk Snob Is The Internet’s Greatest And Most Curious Ghost Ship – Also, That Is A Crown Vic With A Toilet In The Back
McTaggart tried to be cute today and pose a donk related question to you, the valued readers of BangShift. Hours after he put that item in our magical blog machine (a 1959 Kelvinator model) I was...
It’s Porsche Vs. GT-R In An Epic Runway Drag Race. Who Will Win? The Audience…Watch This Fail!
This has all the makings of a good race. Open runway, a Nissan GT-R on one side and a late-model Porsche 911 on the other. Ok, so it’s not the kind of drag racing we’re all used to, but...
Ebay Find: This Dart-blocked Monte Carlo Is A Hustler, Ready To Go
When I typed “pro street” into the search bar, I was expecting fully tubbed-out fairground cruisers with blowers that with a little tweak here and there, could become something heroic. I...
187-Ton Heavy Haul Load Stopped Dead In Its Tracks By Mother Nature, Broken Axles – Heavy Loads Is Hard
BangShifter Jake Salmonson shot us the link on this pretty neat story that came from the Duluth, Minnesota area and centers around the troubles that a heavy haul team was having with moving a 187-ton...
Guy Drives $75 Dollar Truck To Work For 38 Years, Right Up To The Day He Retires – BangShifty Hero!
As a 20 something year old kid, Minnesota resident Bob Sportel needed a truck to get to work but he had a pretty tight budget. After seeing an old farmer come to his place of employment in a rusty...
2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest
I had forgotten about this ragged-out Chevy 1500 W/T from LS Fest this summer. Peeling paint, bashed-in bed, forgettable aftermarket wheels and no exhaust note to speak of, it looked like just about...
Would You Rather: It’s All About The Altitude For This One, Lowrider Vs. Donk
Stance is everything in practically every section of the automotive hobby. But two particular sections take how your car sits and makes it the focal point unlike any other: low riders and hi-risers,...
42-Acre Remains Of Former Marlboro Motor Raceway Up For Lease In Maryland – Full On Ghost Track (Bonus: Historic Video!)
From 1962 to 1969 the Marlboro Motor Raceway was a premier destination for circle track and road racing enthusiasts on the east coast. Notable performers like Roger Penske got their starts at this...
Is It Wrong To Like This? Check Out A 1957 Chevy Rat Rod Wagon Cruising the Streets And Sounding Really Mean In The Process
Some of you will undoubtedly blow a gasket when you see this 1957 Chevy rat rod wagon in the video below. You’ll freak out because some real 1957 Chevy steel was cut up and bent and welded and...
This Is The Weirdest 1985 Pontiac Sunbird Ever – S10 Frame, Flip Nose, 350, Rear Wheel Drive!
Todd Aldridge gets the tipster credit on this one but we’re not sure we should be giving it to him. After all, how did he find it? Was he searching for S10 (normal)? Or was he searching for...
