I..uh..what? Calling All BangShifters: What Is This Thing?
Tom Klockau, a member of The Brougham Society on Facebook, posted this picture on the wall with a question: “What in the world is going on here?” For the sake of keeping BangShift a...
Physics Video: A Cement Truck And A Sharp Incline Do Not Mix
“I fought the law, and the law won”, the lyrics say. And when the law is gravity, you better believe that law was destined to win in the first place. Unless you have a parachute on your...
A Caprice, A Camper, And One Huge Jump. Sounds Like A Good Time To Us!
I can tell that my YouTube feeds have been influenced by my research for BangShift stuff when videos like this one pop up in my list. This came from the 2010 Day of Destruction event at Beech Ridge...
Big Cars, Big Blocks, And Big Smoke: The Mopar Edition
The 1973 Oldsmobile whipping donuts with a thumper of a big-block woke a lot of y’all up, as it better: There is something about a big-ass boulevard cruiser at full scream that is just awesome....
The WTF? Files: Somebody Turned A Chevrolet SSR Into A Reptile
It’s hard to like the Chevy SSR. It’s a cynical mashup of a 1950 Chevy pickup, an El Camino, a Corvette, a TrailBlazer, and a Chrysler Sebring convertible: Individually, they were all...
Elephants At INDY, Charlie Wescott Jr. Leads The Herd At Mopar HEMI Challenge
For many of us, the sound of a pair of mid-60’s Chrysler Hemi’s is music and these rare, high dollar racecars always put on a killer show with twenty-six of them towing into Indy for the 60th US...
National Corvette Museum Reverses Course, Decides To Fill In The Sinkhole
Yesterday the members of the board for the National Corvette Museum agreed to reverse course on a plan that would have turned the sinkhole in the Skydome area of the museum into a visitor’s...
Gallery: 21 Photos Of Cool Engines From The BangShift Archives
(Photos from the BangShift Archive) – Unless you live in the far western states or the southern ones, you’re probably freezing various parts of your body off, considering what family...
I Sense Some Hostility: Lohnes Tries To Get Under My Skin With The Regular Car Review Of The Dodge Aspen
When you like off-beat things, you immediately set yourself up as a target. It’s just a given in human culture. Are you A Flock of Seagulls fan? Get ready for “ran so far away”...
Ram Trucks Will Remain Steel Through 2020. Will This Help Or Hurt Them?
The truck wars are just as nasty as the power wars for the manufacturers right now. Either you can out-tow the other or you can be the most economical, either way you can win. Ford produced their...
Wheels In The Air: Watch This ProCharged BBC-Powered Dragster Reach For The Sky!
Glen Curtis’s big-block Chevrolet-powered American dragster might be hooking a tad too well, or making just a little too much horsepower right off the bat. We come to that conclusion after...
Unhinged: The Fiberglass Hornet’s Nest-My Time At The NCM 20th Anniversary and Track Opening
It’s difficult to put into words just what occurred here in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Yes, the National Corvette Museum celebrated their 20th anniversary, a milestone that should be celebrated....
It’s Official: Ford’s Next Hot Mustang Is “GT 350”. Thanks For The Name, But Can You Give Us Another Clue?
When comparing lists of what is/is not known about the Ford Mustang’s performance model that slots above the GT, the list of “known” is almost nil, while the “not known but...
Björn Waldegård, The First WRC Champion, Has Passed Away
Björn Waldegård, rally-racing royalty and the winner of the inaugural World Rally Championship in 1979, has passed on at the age of 71. A rally racer for over thirty years, Waldegård was known for...
