BangShifty Stuff At The 2014 LA Auto Show – We Skipped All The Boring Junk
The 2014 LA Auto Show is in full swing and we sent an operative deep inside the caverns of Kias, Mazdas, Aluminum Ford trucks, champagne press parties, and people in comfortable shoes to find some...
The Return Part 3: It’s Time For Father And Son To Finally Run The Car They Brought Back To Life
This week we’ve been running a series of videos about a father and son, Jim and Ryan, who found and bought back an old racecar they had built years before, dragged it home, put a new engine...
Happy Birthday To US! BangShift.com Turns Six Years Old Today!
…and they said it wouldn’t last! That’s right everyone, BangShift.com celebrates its sixth birthday today and we couldn’t be happier. On November 21, 2008 Freiburger made the...
Amazing – Smokey Yunick’s 1978 Luv Truck Is For Sale On Craigslist – It Even Has Experimental Tires On it!
BangShift tipster BigDad gets all the credit on this incredible Craigslist find. What is it? How about the personal shop truck of Smokey Yunick! That’s right, the “Best Damned Garage In...
Mini-Feature: The Steve Korney Stone-Woods-Cooke 1969 Corvette Blown Gasser
Before there were pro mods, before there were X275 cars, before anyone knew or cared what a 10.5 tire was there were gassers. All the stuff that you will see this weekend on our live broadcast of the...
Watch Rick Snavley Suffer A Massive Crash At The 2011 Street Car Super Nationals – He Was Banged Up But OK
While we cannot possibly predict anything about the performances at the 2014 Street Car Super Nationals we car certainly use history as a guide to tell you that there will likely be some insanely...
Reason #8: “Never Count Out Larry Larson” We Unveil Larry Larson’s Potentially 5-Second Barrier Smashing Street Legal S10
(Editor’s note: Because this weekend is the “reintroduction” party for Larry Larson’s S-10 to the world and maybe a sort of introduction party to the rest of the...
Goodguys Southwest Nationals Autocross Action Photos – Cones Fly and Champions Are Crowned At The Last Hurrah In 2014
(Photos by Jason Brady and Dan Ballard/RideTech) – If you have ever attended an “end of season” event of any kind you know that there is a certain feel to the whole thing...
This 2000 Qvale Mangusta Is A Really Rare, Pretty Expensive, Modular Ford Powered Italian That You Can Own
It was Wes Tarkington who sent me the link to the ebay listing for this car and he and I bantered about regarding the potential coolness of this 2000 Qvale Mangusta with the right upgrades like...
Ride Along With Captain Jack McClure Rocket Go Kart As He Blasts Down The Track At SGMP – Amazing Footage
Well we told you he was going to do it and he did it! One of our all time heroes is back in action officially after making a couple of eighth mile blasts at South Georgia Motorsports Park last...
The Lingenfelter Collection: A Quartet Of Quintessentially Cool Pontiacs From Our Visit
(Photos by Criag Fitzgerald and the author) – You may remember that we spent a full day inside the vast and amazing Lingenfelter Collection of Ken Lingenfelter last winter. Well as it turned...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Quick And Fast Will Larry Larson Go At This Weekend’s PSCA Street Car Super Nationals?
Starting just before 4:00 PM Pacific time this afternoon, we’ll be flipping our cameras on and bringing you the first of four days of coverage from the annual Pacific Street Car...
Coker Tire Founder Harold Coker Passes – Industry Giant Essentially Created Vintage Tire Market – Great American Success Story
There are lots of great success stories in the aftermarket but few of them loom larger than that of Harold Coker, the founder of the Coker Tire Company. Starting from virtually nothing, he had the...
Some Guys In Sweden Are Plugging A 2-Stroke V8 Into A Volvo Amazon – Teaser Video Here!
Wow, so we guess this whole “stick a two stroke V8 in it” madness is becoming a thing! We got tipped off to the quick video below by Moroso’s Scott Hall who was obviously inspired...
