Barnstormin’: Necessity Is The Mother Of Addiction
Through comments and conversations, I have been lucky enough to read about how lots of BangShifters got their hooks into the car hobby. For some, things started well after their got their...
Action From The Lone Star Pro Am Drifting Meet – Sideways and Shredding Tires!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yesterday we dropped our first ever gallery by Charles Wickam at the Lone Star Pro Am Drifting Series down in Texas. Unconfirmed but that may have been the first...
Watch an Incredible Video From Under a Funny Car That Illustrates the Brutal Forces on a Drag Slick
Tires are pretty amazing things. From the insane lateral grip road cars and formula cars depend on to the clawing and biting prowess of off road rubber, there’s an application for everyone....
More Bizarrely Awesome Drag Action Video: A Blown SBC Powered Aussie Mercedes Goes 8s!
We got tipped us off to this video from Australia that shows an old Mercedes sedan that has been built into a full tilt drag race car which gets power from a blown small block Chevy engine. The steel...
Sideways Gallery: Action Photos From The Lone Star Pro Am Drift Series
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – When Charles sent me a note asking if we’d want to run the photos he shot at the Lone Star Pro Am Drifting event in Texas last weekend I didn’t hesitate...
What The What? Man On Criagslist Has Caprice With Dodge Charger Nose On It For Sale – We Weep
It is Sunday morning and my normal bloggin’ ritual on Sunday morning is to wake up nice and early and get to writing the blogs of the day. Typically on Sunday I will roll back through emails...
Craigslist Find: This 1965 Ford F600 Wrecker Got Me In Big Trouble At Home
I have to both thank and admonish BangShift Chris Cabe for sending me the tip on this sweet, sweet 1965 Ford F600 wrecker that is currently for sale in Iowa. A well established fact around here is...
Gallery: 2014 Northeast Rod And Custom Nationals – More Great Photos From The Big Show In PA!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – 2014 mark the fourth year of Full House Motorsports throwing the party known as the NorthEast Rod and Custom Nationals at the Greater Philadelphia Expo...
This Video Feature Detailing A 1929 Mack AK Chain Drive Truck Rules – See It Cruise And Learn The History Behind It
Chad may break my chops over loving old trucks so much but I’m certainly not the only one out there who has an unnatural level of affection towards the lumbering machines that helped build our...
Watch a 4800ci, Quad Turbocharged, Unlimited Diesel Pulling Tractor Nearly Block Out the Sun With Soot!
You know us, we don’t discriminate by combustion type here. We’d like to prove that by showing you what has to be the most insane land dwelling diesel powered vehicle on Earth. This is a...
BangShift Question of the Day: Are You the Last Gearhead Standing In Your Social Circle?
A recent conversation with an old friend got me thinking about my own gearhead life and I quickly realized that most everyone I’ve wrenched with, bled with, raced with, and screwed around with...
Car Feature – Boss Hoss: A 1969 Pro Street Mustang Powered by 604ci of Alan Root Headed Ford Hemi
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Lately we have been featuring sleepers here on BangShift, so consider this our way of breaking that trend. This car is a sledgehammer, both visually and mechanically....
Yup, We Found The Worst Car Ever – Behold The “Big Daddy” Maxima (BARF)
(Words and Photos: Bryan McTaggart) – While sorting through scores of car pictures I have taken over the years, I found this. I found this poor Nissan Maxima in a hotel parking lot in...
Watch an Australian Guy Lose Control of His Ute During a Burnout, Crash Through a Wall and Seriously Piss Off His Buddy
Australia has some of the toughest driving laws on the books. The so called “anti-hooning” statutes can get drivers into big trouble for being busted while speeding, street racing,...
