Pep Boys Offers New Gearhead Themed Shirts and Hats – Looks Respectable For Once In Your Life!
When you walk into your local Pep Boys store you are typically in one of two modes. Mode one is that you are buying parts for a job you are going to complete the next day. Mode two is that you are in...
Watch As A Driver Spins The Only Remaining Car From The First Ever Grand Prix
When you get the privilege of taking out the only remaining car from the world’s first Gran Prix, what would you do? Not drive it at all for fear of wrecking the temperamental beast? Putt...
Question Of The Day: Is This G-body Monte Carlo SS Worth Nearly $13K?
Nutting isn’t the only G-body freak here at BangShift…the first car I got to drive around in public…legally, anyways…that was my own was a T-top equipped 1987 Monte Carlo SS....
Classic Rally Greatness: Watch A Mini And A Classic Escort Get Put Through The Paces
This is sweet footage from the Ford Archives. Called the Gems Rally Legends, this is a clip from a DVD made from three different films from the 1960’s-early 1970’s that shows the cars in...
Dyno Video: Watch A 428ci, NASCAR Race Block Based Chrysler Wedge Engine Scream Out 712 HP Naturally Aspirated!
It has been way too long since we featued a hot Chrysler wedge engine making a dyno pull on the blog. To right this wrong, we bring you the footage below which is of a nasty little bastard of an...
No, That’s Not Suspicious: Bad Thief Drags Safe Behind Town Car In Front Of Cops
This week’s “Dumbest Criminals” award goes to 22-year-old Ryan Mullins. Mullins, from Swansboro, North Carolina, was spotted August 14, 2014 by police as he was using a Lincoln Town...
New York’s Lancaster Dragway/Speedway Is For Sale – 77 Acres Outside Of Buffalo, NY
Now’s your chance if you have always wanted to get into the racing business. Not only is it a chance to go into the drag racing business but it is also a chance to go into the circle track...
You Know You Want This: 1/2 Scale Plymouth Superbird
How cool is this? This 1/2 scale Plymouth Superbird is something Brian, Chad and I Lohnes’ kids would love. The body is a fiberglass piece and it’s powered by a 8hp Briggs and Stratton...
Redneck Rocket Video: Watch A Massive Swamp Buggy, Equipped With A 632ci V8 Yank The Front Wheels On Pavement!
Its Saturday here in the BangShift newsroom, know what that means? Typically it means that we wake up surrounded by spent beer cans, old pizza boxes, and using a breaker bar as a pillow under one of...
Cynthiana Rod Run Coverage: It Looks Like Every Hot Rod In Kentucky Was There
(Words and Photos by Doug Gregory) – This was the Third Annual Rod Run in Cynthiana and proved this is an event growing in popularity and participation. Some estimates claimed 1,000 cars,...
Hedman Releases New Mid-Length LS Swap Husler Headers For Your GM A-Body
Hedman has been building some of the best headers in the world for 60 years and the company has not stopped innovating or releasing new products in an ever changing and evolving hot rod marketplace....
The Putnam, Connecticut Downtown Super Cruise 2014: Photo Coverage Of The Coolest Stuff On The Street
(Photos by Ryan Severance) – When BangShifter Ryan Severance shot me a note and asked if I’d be interesting in sharing some photos from a cool show he was at recently, I jumped at the...
Tony Bartone Is Wielding His Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster Like A Weapon – Undefeated In 2014!
If General Sherman had a dragster back when he was making his march, it probably would have looked something like this. Tony Bartone and his crew have been literally mowing down everyone and...
Friday Fact: Stirling Moss’s Sister Pat Moss-Carlsson Was An Ultra Talented Championship Rally Driver – Here’s Her Story
People that are into racing like to talk about “natural drivers” or those who just seem to be blessed with an innate ability behind the wheel of a race car to make it dance, skate, slide,...
