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...
PRI 2014: More Race Cars, Cool Cars, Trucks, And Sweet Shiny Parts From The Massive Show Floor – Also, Epic Top Fuel News
Day two at the 2014 PRI show was a great one. The show has over 100 more vendors than it had in 2013, the foot traffic seems higher, and the people displaying their wares here are reporting that the...
2015 Hot Rod Drag Week Rules Announced
We are here at the 2014 PRI show at the 2015 Hot Rod Drag Week rules announcement meeting. Here’s what we are being told literally right now: New impound rule: All cars in top 3 and quicker...
PRI 2014: A Collection Of Photos Featuring Engines And Just Engines – Gas, Diesels, V8s, Four Bangers, Turbos, Blowers, More!
One of the reasons we love the 2014 PRI show (like every other year of the PRI show) is that the whole thing is chocked with hardcore parts and components. There are no light up blinky things, no...
Watch Quain Stott Make The Greatest Gasser Save We Have Ever Seen – In Car And Out of Car Video
(We love great driving “saves” around here and the best save we saw in 2014 came from Rockingham Dragway and featured the legendary driving skills of Quain Stott. A Champion pro mod racer...
The Biggest Hell’s Angel That Ever Lived Was Also One Of The Scariest – The Story Of Armond Bletcher
(Perhaps the most interesting and frightening that BangShift stumbled upon in 2014 was Armond Bletcher. His story reads like it is straight out of the script from the Sons of Anarchy television show....
PRI 2014: The New FAST LSXr Tunable Intake Has Multiple Runner Options That You Can Swap Yourself! Tune The Intake For Your Combo And Grow With It
There’s a ton of new, innovative and interesting stuff here at PRI 2014 and this new FAST LSRx Intake is one of those things. With the ability for the end user to literally tune the thing to...
It’s A Treasure Trove Of History! Check Out These Old Chicago Auto Show Clips!
Photos and footage from any of the big auto shows are excellent snapshots into the history of automobiles, something we have spent tons of time perusing through YouTube for over the years. However,...
Watch A Fuel Altered Crash And Then Come Back Up The Drag Strip The Wrong Way At Full Throttle Before Exploding – Terrifying!
(Editor’s note: Looking back at the stuff we posted in 2014, this is by far the more terrifying video we showed you. It bears watching again, even if you have already seen it. Watching a AA/FA...
Historical Video: The Official Introduction Of The 1992 Dodge Viper
By the late 1980s Chrysler’s K-car renaissance was getting stale and sales showed it. The management knew that they had to bring out something special in order to stir up new interest, and...
If You Are Looking For Tips On How To Race Your Bike, This Video Will Show You Everything You Should Not Do
Drag racing, even at the amateur level, isn’t as easy as it looks. Hitting the gas and driving a straight line for a quarter mile can present it’s challenges, and most of them are at the...
Ford Confirms Formation of “Ford Performance” and Upcoming Focus RS
Details of Ford’s plans have started to appear a good month early of the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and even the tiny confirmations are certainly hinting towards an...
No Matter What Your Friends Keep Telling You, It’s A Raptor, Not A Trophy Truck [VIDEO]
All of the classic ingredients are here: you have a dirt track that appears to be better suited for a motocross than it does for a truck, lined with people, and a couple of cameras filming the whole...
