Minnesota State Trooper Pulls Over Deathtrap Pinto, Takes Pictures. Roadkill, Eat Your Heart Out.
(Editor’s note: As we continue to creep towards New Year’s Day, it is fun to look back over 2014 and see the blog items that really got people’s attention. This was one of them, a...
PRI 2014: The Boss Bird 1971 Pontiac Trans-Am Funny Car. 3,000hp Nitro Pontiac Engine, Beswick History, And A Cloyes Double Roller Timing Chain?!
We’re weird. We know that we’re weird and we kind of embrace that fact. If you have been around here for very long you know that. The guys in the Cloyes Performance booth have what could...
That Is A Caprice Wagon Hooked To A Pulling Sled – Video Of It In Action Here!
(This is simply one of our favorite videos of 2014. A hot rodded Caprice wagon hooked to a pulling sled with a luggage carrier shell strapped to the roof. Just saying the words out loud make us smile...
PRI 2014: Incredible Transmissions And Transaxles from Sadev And Weddle Industries – These Are Gearhead Art At The Highest Level
One of the neatest parts of the PRI 2014 experience is the sheer diversity of stuff that is on display. There are parts which are complete unobtanium to the average guy and are only really relevant...
Watch Mark Taliaferro Suffer One Of The Worst Top Alcohol Dragster Wrecks We’ve Ever Seen – He Walked Away!
(Editor’s note: Mike English was on the call in Seattle when Mark Taliaferro suffered a horrendous wreck in his alky dragster. As we’re looking back at 2014, this moment of the NHRA...
PRI 2014: Fragola Performance Systems Expands Fitting Line With More Solutions To Your High Performance Plumbing Quandries
From fuel, to intercoolers, to reducers and expanders, Fragola Performance Systems is once again meeting the needs today’s high performance plumbing solutions with a wide array of additions to...
Crazy Story: More Than 100 Cars Located By Sonar In Bayous Around Houston, Texas – Officials Don’t Want To Remove Them
(In the realm of HUH?! style news in 2014, this story about 100 cars being found by sonar imaging in the bayous around Houston, Texas was darned near the top of the charts. Perhaps more interesting...
Ebay Find: This Custom International Has An Oldsmobile Heart And A Look That Was Last Seen In 1992
If I have typed “International” into the search bar on eBay, I’m looking for one of two items. Either I’m searching for the next truck I’m going to torment Lohnes with,...
Engine Masters Challenge Gets The Shake-Up With New Classes And More!
When Hot Rod Magazine took over the Engine Masters Challenge, everyone had a feeling that once Freiburger got his hands on it there would be some changes. How severe? Nobody knew, but what they did...
Check Out MAHLE Motorsports New Elite Sportsman Drag Race Pistons
We went to visit the guys at MAHLE Motorsports yesterday, so we could get a look at the new MAHLE Motorsports Elite Sportsman Drag Series PowerPak Pistons that everyone is talking about. We...
This ESPN Sports Science Profile Of A Top Fuel Dragster Is Pretty Awesome – Not Just The Same Old Facts
There are two things that struck me about this cool ESPN Sports Science profile of a top fuel dragster. The first is that they attack the topic with a different angle than most of the other...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Don’t Blame Me, It Was Like That When I Got Here.
The only reason I went to the store today was to unload some old oil. That’s all…just getting rid of some well-used Texas Tea, and maybe I’d spend a few minutes BSing with Store...
Final Hot Rod Drag Week Rules Announced: Some Good, Some Bad, All Right Here
As all regular BangShifters know, Drag Week is near and dear to our hearts here at BnagShift.com, so there was no way we were going to miss Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week Rules Announcement at...
Want A Real Ex-Military HMMWV? Defense Logistics Agency Gearing Up To Auction Off Up To 4,000 Of Them!
In many minds (mine included), the only real Hummer is the original, the large-by-huge and unapologetically American version, the one that was sold to civilians as the Hummer H1 and the military got...
