V8 Supercar Video: Some Funny And Absolutely Random Moments From Australia
V8 Supercar racing is the whiskey-drinking, cocaine-snorting cousin of NASCAR that our friends Down Under live for. The cars are much closer to the real vehicles for sale, the drivers have similar...
This Remote-Controlled Concorde Is Just Awesome, Jet Engines And All
No matter how many times I come across videos of the large-scale remote-controlled aircraft that appear at such events as Panoramaflugtag in Germany, I’m always stunned and impressed by the...
Watch One Of The Most Valiant Drag Race Driving Efforts We Have Ever Seen – Sideways, Stuck Throttle(?), Almost Saves It Completely
To be fair, we consider this a save. Yeah, the guy scraped the wall but when you watch this video and see how bad it could have been, that wall scrape is a drop in the bucket, literally. We’re...
Great Read: How An Old Willys Jeep Has Taken A Family Through 60 Years Of Fun And Adventure
We often show you cool videos from Petrolicious, but today we’re showing you a cool story from the website because it speaks to everything right and good about the gearhead world. We got tipped...
Monday Shopper: This 460hp Impala SS Crossed The Block At Mecum Chicago For $5,000
Mecum Auctions’ Chicago auction just wrapped up this Saturday, and prices reflect a crowd that was ready to buy. A 1986 Monte Carlo SS went for $10,500. A stock 1984 Trans Am went for $14,000....
Video: Take A Behind The Scenes Look At Racepak With BangShift’s Chad Reynolds!
We’re lucky that a bunch of cool aftermarket companies let us hang out any time we want, but the ones that are right here in SoCal make that even cooler and easier. Racepak is one of our...
Craigslist Find: A 1968 Lola T-160 Can Am Racer That We Want To Own
When my buddy Dannie Pinard sent me this Craigslist item, he also sent it with some note about being a TV star now and that I should be able to buy this thing. I WISH!!! This 1968 Lola T-160 is...
Australian V8 Supercars Video: Crashing At Bathurst Is Nothing New, But In Practice?!
Our buddy Sean, a huge Australian V8 Supercars fan, sent us the link to this cool video from Bathurst where Lowndes and Luff came together during practice of all things. As if Bathurst wasn’t a...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Dear Monday….
Dear Monday, I know we have fought over the years, and I know we haven’t really been friends since about first grade, when your arrival meant five days away from Saturday Morning Cartoons and...
Audi Is Going To Let An RS7 Lap The Hockenheimring…Without A Driver, At Speed
In another move that signals the oncoming driverless car, Audi is preparing to let a fully autonomous RS7 take a lap of the Hockenheimring race course at full speed on October 19, 2014, in...
Photo Tour: Stacey David’s Rattletrap Productions’ Open House-A Car Show, Shop Tour And Much More In One Place!
Saturday afternoon was a drizzly, messy, and cool day that bore more resemblance to Seattle than it did to what is the normal here at BangShift Midwest. It was that kind of drizzle that makes...
City of Waldo, Florida Dissolves Police Force Over Ticket Quotas, Breaking Up One Of The Biggest Speed Traps Ever
Heh, whoopsie. The city council of Waldo, Florida just dissolved the police force after the police chief and interim chief resigned over allegations of ticket quotas being used as a revenue tool. How...
691 Horsepower And Zero Emissions: Tesla Unveils The Twin-Motor, AWD Model S P85D
Last week Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed Twitter users that he was going to “unveil the D”, setting off the Internet on the speculation about Elon’s new “D” and the...
Unhinged: When The “Good Idea” Lightbulb Should Be Ignored
Our friend Craig Fitzgerald over at BestRide.com tipped us off to the story of a woman who lit a candle inside of her car, parked in front of a gas station pump and went inside, only to come outside...
