Killer Historic Drag Video: Highlights From Arizona’s Beeline Dragway Circa The Early 1970s
With the recent announcement that Arizona’s Speedworld dragway would be closing down we couldn’t help but think about another dead Arizona strip that was once a hotbed of national level...
Screaming Video: Watch A 2.3L Turbo Ford Clip Nearly 10K On The Chassis Dyno In A Drag Car!
Job Spetter Jr has been tuning full tilt turbo and EFI engines for a long time. His name is very well known around drag racing circles and he’s both driven and tuned others to lot and lots of...
Burndown Video Battle: Which Is Better? WJ vs Geoffrion or Garlits vs Carbone? You Decide.
The other day we got a submission from my dad of a great YouTube video showing Warren Johnson and Scott Geoffrion in an epic burndown on the starting line at Houston during the 1994 Slick 50...
Train Derailment In Montana Dumps Three Boeing 737 Fuselages Into River
A train derailment is always a bad-news situation. But what happens when the derailment sends whole aircraft into a rushing river? One Montana Link Rail conductor will find out shortly, after a train...
Watch A NASCAR Crew Guy Change A Tire While The Rotor Literally Bursts Into Flames – Helmet Cam View
Ever since the Wood Brothers figured out decades ago that a drilled and organized crew could help them win races, NASCAR pit crews have become more and more specialized and athletic. These days, pro...
Gallery: A Collection Of Classic American Full Sized Cars From The BangShift Archives
(Photos from the BangShift Archive) – Call me an ugly American is you want but bigger is definitely better when it comes to may taste in cars. The humongous machines of the 1960s and 1970s...
Dyno Video: Watch A Wretchedly Overpowered Sand Car Lay Down 1300hp At The Tire With A TT 454ci Warhawk Mill!
Few vehicles on Earth have the power to weight ratio that modern sand cars have. These tube chassis wonders that were once mostly powered by stock or warmed up VW engines now sport turbocharged V8s...
Video Game Vs. Real Life: Watch A Real Focus ST Battle With A Virtual Focus ST-Plus The (former) Stig
Ford unveiled the new, slightly tweaked version of the Focus ST at the Goodwood Festival of Speed recently. In what we can only assume was a bunch of advertising genius, Polyphony Digital, the...
Ebay Find: 1974 Vega Wagon Funny Car For Sale-Who Wants Their Own Nostalgia Ride?
BangShifter Joe Haber sent me this gem from his backyard in Tucson, Arizona. A full-on funny car and ’74 Vega Wagon body, this thing just needs an engine and trans (as well as a cleanup and...
VTEC Kicked In, Yo! Watch This Civic Take Flight Like A Boss! That Landing, On The Other Hand…
Rally jumps never get old, do they? Hell no! It’s the icing that goes on the cake of watching two people chuck a car through the woods at speeds that would make most normal people lose bowel...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “America The Beautiful” Ray Charles (2001)
Yankee Stadium, mere weeks after America was attacked in New York City. Nobody has ever sang this song better than Ray Charles, and this particular performance was something special. Click play to...
Party Barge: Holley’s Project ’74 Chevelle “Low Buck Long Roof”
Some vehicles catch your eye with bright colors, big motors, loud noises, a thumping stereo system. Some are so frighteningly ugly that you’d just as soon go look at whatever’s in the parking lot...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Don’t Leave Me Hanging, Bro!
The messages have been coming in and I’ve been on the floor…these are good! Keep them coming! Here’s one of the latest ones: I have been a parts counterman and manager for over...
Rough Start: Save This Grand Prix From A Wrong Turn In Albuquerque
Every time that Bugs Bunny was lost, he blamed a wrong turn at Alburqurque. Since that place is apparently interesting enough that the animated wise-ass could get turned around so many times, I...
