Would You Rather, The Big 1980’s Coupe Edition!
While there are many who would disagree, the mainstay of hot rods, street machines, muscle cars and projects in the United States are two-doors. The four door body style puts off an air of...
Win A FREE Racepak Data Logger Kit If You Guess How Quick And Fast Larry Larson Will Run This Weekend!
That’s right folks, if you guess correctly, without going under, you will win a FREE Racepak Sportsman 1320 Logger Kit! Your guesses must be to three digits, meaning for example 5.967 at...
Street Car Super Nationals Photos From The Pits
While Brian has been taking over camera duties here in Las Vegas while I’m working on Larry and I’s Drag Week S10 project, I’ve been taking a few shots from the pits as well. Here...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Shooting The Messenger
I’ve covered the circle of respect in retail quite a bit here, but in the grand scheme of things, most of what has been addressed adds up to simple annoyances. Yeah, it can be a bad day when...
Craigslist Find: Be Your Own Conductor With This Handbuilt Willys-Powered Train Set!
In all fairness, hot rodding derived from two earlier forms of mechanical focus: aircraft and railroads. We often cover a lot of the aircraft side of the house (supercharging, belly tanker LSR cars,...
Craigslist find: 1971 Dodge Valiant Duster Super Bee For Sale In Florida
As Chrysler was shifting from being the wild child of the Musclecar era to an era of company-wide confusion as to what to do with itself in the United States, in Mexico the party was still going on,...
Ebay Find: The Henry J’s Corporate Brother, The Allstate, Up For Sale!
Allstates are dolled-up Henry J’s that sold through Sears for a bargain-basement price while packing more standard and optional equipment. Kaiser-Fraiser’s economy car had been a slow...
Holy Flying Lorry…Mike Ryan and Lotus F1 Gain A World Record By Launching A Truck Over Their Expensive Racecar
Vacation is over, and as I type this I’m watching the sun set over the regional jets parked at Washington-Dulles as I endure a six-hour layover. Not exactly my idea of fun, so the first thing I...
The Sad Tale Of DeLorean Motor Company, From Start To Finish: See How The Workers Rode The Stainless-Steel Rollercoaster
The view from the Titanic Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland as I stood outside the front door was, in a word, miserable: rain poured down by the ton as the clouds all but obscured the view out into...
Video: Larry Larson Runs 6.043 at 242.67 MPH: Quickest and Fastest Street Legal Vehicle Ever
UPDATE: Since running the 6.058 earlier Friday, we went out on Friday evening and ran 6.043 at 242.67 mph. That is the exact same ET as Fast Freddy out of Sweden, and our mph is more than 10mph...
New BangShift LIVE Broadcast Sponsors! Welcome Racepak and MAHLE To The Party!
BangShift.com is proud to announce that Racepak and MAHLE have joined the fold here at BangShift.com, and will be BangShift LIVE Broadcast Sponsors in 2015! As if we didn’t already have the...
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...
