Cool Video: A Restored Brubaker Box Van Is Cool, Weird, And One Man’s Dream Car
If you have never seen a “Brubaker Box” or Automecca Sports Van, don’t be ashamed. These VW based vans were rare in their day and are virtually automotive unicorns today. There was...
Video Of Clint Bowyer’s Barrel Roll And Drive Away Is Coolest NASCAR Thing In Forever
I was watching the drag race on my computer and the NASCAR qualifying races on my living room television last night and I couldn’t have predicted that the NASCAR race would produce one of the...
BangShift Exclusive: The Auto Club Fontana Pro Mod Noise Test – We Were There – Did They Pass? (Gallery)
(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – As we get down to the first NHRA Street Legal event this weekend at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, Wednesday’s test session to determine which racecars...
Tune In: Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational On This Saturday 5pm Eastern on MAVTV
Set your DVRs to stun! This Saturday at 5pm eastern time the 2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational will air on MAVTV and you’ll be able to see the slugfest that was OUSCI 2013. BangShift...
The Westinghouse Vertical Parking Machine Was A 1930s Marvel That We Wish Was Still Around Today (Video)
While the name is pretty staid and unimpressive, the Westinghouse Vertical Parking Machine was a marvel in 1932 when it was installed and put into use at a parking lot in Chicago. With space for 48...
The Entire SCORE Off Road Series For 2014 Will Be On CBS, And We Will Be There!
That’s right folks, for the first time in SCORE Baja Racing history, there is going to be televised action from each and every stop on the World Championship Series. We LOOOOOVVEEEEE...
AMERICAN BADASS: Col. John Stapp Went 632 MPH in a Rocket Sled with an OPEN COCKPIT
We’ve all seen footage of crash test dummies getting put through their paces to understand how crashes effect the human body. Through the years, auto manufacturers have employed everything from...
All Acceleration All The Time Video: Jim Pace Hammers A Camaro, A Couple Old Can-Am Cars, And Porsches In This Hammer Down Video
Everyone that drives a car digs the feeling of being pressed back into the seat when you hit the gas. From your grandmother to the dink in the Prius next to you in traffic, even non-car people...
Skip The Coffee, This Footage Of 90’s Subaru Rally Action Will Wake You Up!
I was never really into Subarus as a kid during the 90s, if only because the majority of Subarus you saw in New England in the 90s were beat up old Leones and Legacies. Once in a while an Impreza was...
Video Bonanza: The Racing in Slow Motion Series
Every now and again a cool video hits the scene and ripsaws through the automotive interwebs like wildfire. Currently, that video is the latest release in the Racing in Slow Motion series on YouTube....
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Larry Minor
Racing and motorsports in general are both populated by lots of rich guys. That can be a bad thing because frankly, in our experience, a large percentage of rich guys are jerks. Larry Minor is...
Does The 2015 Ford Expedition Mark The Beginning Of The End For Ford V8 Engines?
Ford announced the specs for the upcoming 2015 Ford Expedition and while that in itself isn’t all that BangShifty there’s an underlying situation involved with the Expedition that seems...
Video: The Hover-Barrow Was A Neat And BangShifty Solution To Job Site Drudgery – Cool Idea!
Human beings have been seeking ways to make life easier since the dawn of our existence. From coming up with ideas like the wheel, yogurt in a tube, electricity, and nuclear weapons, we’ve been...
