Ferrari CEO di Montezemelo Steps Down! What Is The Future Of The Prancing Horse?
It’s official: Luca di Montezemelo stepped down as CEO of Ferrari. After years fighting with Fiat owner Sergio Marchionne over Ferrari’s production direction coupled with a disastrous...
Hotchkis Sport Suspension End Of Summer Sale Means Big Time Savings Are At Hand! Over $1,000 On Some Products
Sad as it is to say, Summer is nearly over and that means (for most of us) that it will be soon time to park the cars and get thinking on plans for 2015. Well, the people at Hotchkis know that and...
Three Guys, A Dragster, A Wounded Station Wagon, And A Rickety Trailer – An Adventure For The Ages In 1978
(Words and Photos by Carl Blanton) – (Editor’s note: There are few cooler things in the world to read than racers telling their stories of high adventure from back in the day. I was...
Gallery: Cool Engines Captured From The BangShift Photo Vault
(Photos from the BangShift collection) — I have always thought that engines make for compelling photos. The way people modify them, the way they dress them up, the way they try to disguise or...
Rough Start, The Drag Week Edition: This 4th Gen Is A Power Adder Away From Greatness
Since the bosses are out enjoying Drag Week, I decided that my contribution to the events (besides keeping BangShift rolling along) would be to mess with the Rough Start parameters in the goal of...
BangShift Doorslammer Gallery: Action Photos From The PDRA Meet Last Weekend
(Photos by David Whealon) – When BS shooter David Whealon sent me a note saying that he was thinking of attending the PDRA Race at Rockingham Dragway and bringing his camera, I was pretty...
We Get The Inside Scoop On What It Was Like At The Inaugural Speedway Motors CAM Invitational Challenge
(Photos and words by Lance Hamilton) [Nutting: By now most Bangshift readers should be familiar with my daily driver 1987 Monte Carlo LS that I autocross on a regular basis in the Classic American...
Show Gallery: Cruisin’ For A Cure Car Show at Bruster’s Ice Cream in Bowling Green, KY
Most anywhere in America, you can find a car cruise of some type during the summer months. It might take a little investigation or a short drive but they can be found, and can vary from a few cars to...
Just In Case You Thought Dodge Had A Shred Of Sanity Left, Now You Can Lease A Hellcat
At just north of sixty grand, the Hellcat is a bargain for it’s power output. But one would think that people would straight-up buy their Charger or Challenger…while sixty large...
Craigslist Find: A Reader Suggestion For A BangShift Command Center
Lohnes and I have been going back and forth over a BangShift Command Center Vehicle. I want the overkill coach bus setup so that we can quit staying in crime-scene hotels and can have air...
Epic Craigslist Find: “I Know What This Car Is Worth Restored, Don’t Low-Ball Me”
Sometimes the truth is stranger than the fiction. It’s obvious that the only thing left to do to this Duster is to raid it for pieces and let it die a somewhat dignified death. Instead, I give...
This All Aluminum Hemi Small Block Chevy Hemi Uses Some Of The Most Rare Speed Parts Ever – A Never Assembled Freak!
There’s strange stuff, there’s weird stuff, there’s unobtanium, and then there is this. What you are looking at is a Leo Lyons small block Chevy hemi from the early 1970s....
Drag Week 2014: Photos And Results From Day One In Tulsa! Bailey Leads The Way, Lutz Is Fast, Cline Flies, Larson Runs 6.99
(Photos by Brad Klaassen) – Few things often live up to the advanced hype before an event but the first day of Hot Rod Drag Week 2014 sure as heck did! Tom Bailey left Tulsa with the lead on...
Project Violent Valiant Update: Safety Equipment, Pre-Assembly, And The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Project Violent Valiant sure is coming along. We recently caught up with builder Kevin Tully at his shop, Ho Rod Chassis and Cycle in Illinois and he told us about the recently progress on the car,...
