A Leaf Blower Supercharger A Decade Before Finnegan and Freiburger Made It Famous
I ran these photos on BangShift years ago, back when the site was read by two people….Chad and I. For whatever reason, I was struck with inspiration to bring them back out and tell the story of...
The Bottom Dollar Blazer Project: Resurrecting a Yankee K5 Blazer From The Creeping Death
I have always loved the K5 Blazer, but I have two problems: (1) 99.9 percent of the K5s available have been treated to hockey puck lift kits and chrome directional wheels. (2) I’m cheap, and...
Thinking About Installing A Hydraulic Clutch? Let American Powertrain Show You How To Set Up The Throw Out Bearing In This Video
There are lots of benefits to adding a hydraulic clutch setup to your hot rod. Less pedal effort, smoother actuation, and lots more room for headers and other components that tend to run into...
Neat Video: Watch Steel And Carbon Fiber Driveshafts Get Tested To Their Failure Points
We got tipped off to this video by BangShift reader John Dozeman and we thought it was pretty neat. The footage is a clip from a BBC show about the technology involved with Formula One cars. In this...
In Torque We Trust: Petrolicious Spends Some Quality Time With A 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S
If there’s one thing that I love watching on youTube, it’s spring break videos automotive videos with high production value: Car reviews from Top Gear UK, the Ken Block Gymkhana series,...
ChumpCar Race Report With Gallery: Frozen Peaches And Ice Cream At Road Atlanta
(Words by Charlene Felton – Photos by John Babinski) – The Optima Batteries ChumpCar World Series (www.chumpcar.com) is the home of “Real Racing, Real Tracks®.” It’s competitive,...
Nitro And Pro Stock Action From the 2014 NHRA Winternationals – Header Flames Over The Wing!
(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – Yesterday we showed you people and sportsman action from the 2014 NHRA Winternationals and today we show you the pros in nitro burning funny cars, top fuel...
The Battle For The Grand Championship – A Cool Look At The Cars And Competition At Holley LS Fest 2013
Before last summer I had never been to the Holley LS Fest at Beech Bend. I had heard about the event and seen photos and video but for whatever reason, I had never attended. The weekend was a unique...
The 2014 March Meet Is Coming – We’re Planning On Being There And YOU Should Be, Too!
March means a couple of things here at BangShift but most importantly it means that the greatest nostalgia drag race in the world, the Bakersfield March Meet will be happening and 2014 is no...
Italian Furniture Builders Built This BMW K100RS Cafe Racer Out of An Oil Drum and It’s DEADLY
Vibrazioni Art Design isn’t known for building motorcycles. It’s recognized for building cool furniture out of old 55 gallon oil drums, the way half the bands in Jamaica built their drum...
Eargasm: 12-Minutes of Vintage 1960s Drag Strip Radio Ads With Out Takes And More – Screamers, Famous Names, Coolness
As cool as old drag racing movies and videos are, this collection containing 12-minutes of vintage drag strip radio ads from tracks all across the country blows them all into the weeds. The names...
Do You Like Things That Are Cool? If So Give AFCO A Like On Facebook! Racing Season Is Here!
While we look forward to racing season, the crew at AFCO Racing really looks forward to it. Think about the starting line at a 100-meter dash at the Olympics. The way that the crew at AFCO hits the...
Awesome Racing Video: A Real Vintage Trans-Am Boss 302 Mustang at Laguna Seca
If there could be one thing cooler than owning a Boss 302 formerly raced by George Follmer, it would be owning and racing that Follmer-driven Boss 302. Brian Ferron is a man who does the latter,...
