eBay Find: This 1949 Dodge Power Wagon Is Almost (and we mean ALMOST) Perfect
Feb 28, 2014Brian Lohnes23
Look at this awesome hunk of steel, would you? Is there anything finer than a classic Dodge Power Wagon? Honestly, if you can lay our eyes on this truck and not get any sort of a gearhead tingle than...
Motorized Freak of the Week: Weird German Propeller Train – The Schienenzeppelin
Feb 28, 2014Brian Lohnes4
This is the weirdest thing we’ve ever seen. It’s an experimental train built in Germany during the early ‘30s. Not so strange until you realize it went 130 mph and was shoved along by a...
Here’s The Amazing Details And “Rest Of The Story” About The 6 And 9 Year Old That Drove Across America In 1910 – Very Cool Stuff
Feb 28, 2014Brian Lohnes4
(By Bret Kepner) — (Editor’s note: Yesterday, Bret Kepner dropped me a note after seeing the story of the Abernathy brothers and their amazing feats of travel as kids in the early 1900s....
Jeff Gordon Taxi: How To Scare The Daylights Out Of A Doubting Jalopnik Writer – EPIC
Feb 28, 2014Brian Lohnes17
This is totally one of the greatest pranks ever pulled in the history of the internet. Travis Okulski is the deputy editor of majorly huge automotive blog site Jalopnik and he was one of the most...
VIDEO: One of the most chilling crashes caught on video. It’s incredible that this guy fully recovered
Feb 27, 2014Craig Fitzgerald4
You’ve probably never heard of Nigel Corner, but he’s a British driver mostly known now for racing vintage cars. In this absolutely amazing video from the old Speedvision — when...
eBay Find: $50,000 For 40 (Or More) 1960s Chevelles, Trucks, Impalas, and Lots Of Parts….But There’s A Little Catch
Feb 27, 2014Brian Lohnes28
Well this certainly isn’t as cool as the 80-acre junkyard we told you about the other day, but it is certainly an interesting eBay listing that should spur some debate down in the ol’...
Video Bonanza: People Freaking Out About Dale Earnhardt Jr Winning The 2014 Daytona 500
Feb 27, 2014Brian Lohnes7
While we don’t have a “favorite” in NASCAR we enjoyed the fact that Dale Earnhardt won the 2014 Daytona 500 and it sure seems like a good thing for both the sport itself and...
Retro Gallery: A Collection Of Wheels Up, Burnout, And Action Photos From The 2013 March Meet — T-Minus One Week!
Feb 27, 2014Brian Lohnes3
That’s right, kids! In less than one week BangShift will be LIVE and streaming the action from the 2014 Bakersfield March Meet at Famoso Raceway as we have for several years thanks to the...
Vent Tech: The Guys at II Much Fabrication Give Info And Advice On Their Blog
Feb 27, 2014Brian Lohnes4
We introduced many of you to II Much Fabrication’s line of vents a couple of weeks back in an update of Project Violent Valiant. Since then, II Much Fabrication has joined BangShift as an...
A New TV Show About Bitchin Vintage RV’s Is On It’s Way! Flippin’ RV’s Baby, We Love Them!
Feb 27, 2014Chad Reynolds8
You guys all know how much I dig old RV’s and travel trailers. I mean, I worship them. The other day Bret Voelkel from Ridetech sent me a killer photo of a laid out camper van with a laid out...
Quick Tech: How MSD’s TurboLuie Ran 8.22 At 169 In His Street Driven Mustang! And There’s More In It!
Feb 27, 2014Chad Reynolds6
When Erik and the gang at MSD sent me the link to video of Luis Gutierrez’s 8.22 at 169 mph pass in his street driven Fox Body Mustang, I was impressed. Like a lot of good drag radial cars,...
Top 11: We Pick The Top 11 Cars Of 1967 — Some Curveballs In Here For Sure!
Feb 27, 2014Brian Lohnes35
(By Scott Liggett) – 1967 was a good year, not because you were a hippie trekking to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. But, for the amazing collection of cars being put on the road from...
Mondo-Roto Video: More New Footage Of The 12 Rotor Engine On The Dyno – The Sound Is Good
Feb 27, 2014Brian Lohnes1
As we told you the other day, the 12 rotor engine made initial, low RPM dyno runs and survived so now the mill is back at home to be pulled apart, inspected, upgraded with EFI and prepared for its...
BangShift Question of the Day: What Historical Automotive Figure Would You Pluck From the Past Into the Present?
Feb 26, 2014Brian Lohnes16
Every time we post a cool video, document a racing accomplishment, or revel in the pure awesome of a video we found on the interwebs we end up thinking that Mickey Thompson should have been there to...












