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...
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...
