JR Todd Named Driver Of Optima Batteries Top Fuel Dragster For Remainder Of NHRA Season
(Photo credit: Kalitta Motorsports) – It was announced today by Kalitta Motorsports that 32-year old JR Todd will become the full time driver of the Optima Batteries top fuel dragster for the...
Hacks of the Week from Reddit’s Just Rolled Into the Shop
Hiyooooo, it’s that time for Hacks of the Week. You know, I’ve been spending a lot more time with a welder in my hand, so I have to cut the hackers of the world a little slack. It takes...
The ToyoHog Is A Hacked Together Harley Powered Prius That Is Genius! It Is For Sale And We Have Video
There’s something that makes our little hearts jump for joy when we see a Prius modified in ways that would make the happy shiny people in their lame ass TV ads weep. You can imagine our...
Fan Vote Opens for NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2015 – See Who Is Nominated And Place Your Votes
Here’s another one of those intersections where our weird relationship with professional stock car racing comes into clearer view. While we’re not big followers or fans of the modern...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is Your Significant Other As Automotive Obsessed As You Are?
Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day came to me this morning at work after finishing a conversation via text message with my wife about modifications that she wants to make to her Jeep...
Awesome Video Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Shelby Daytona’s Triumph At Le Mans
The year was 1964 and the place was Le Mans. The players were Shelby American and Ferrari. The cars were the new and largely unproven Shelby Daytona and the Ferrari 250 GTO. It was a battle of...
The Undead Aussie Ford LTD Hearse Is The Greatest Burnout Machine Ever – Complete With Casket
We have to thank Aussie BangShifter John Tearle for the tip on this massive 1970s smoke machine from his homeland. The car is called Undead and it is a mid-1970s Aussie Ford LTD hearse. It seems that...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Sometimes Even When It’s Good It’s Bad – Hugs And Drugs At The Store
Not everything at work is a negative. Most of my co-workers are great to be around, I make decent enough money for what I do, and I honestly enjoy helping people with the problems that they bring me....
IHRA SAN ANTONIO NITRO JAM – RACE COVERAGE FROM A WILD WEEKEND IN TEXAS
(Words and Photos by Brad Klaassen) – As many of you hard core Bangshifters already know, the IHRA revamped their racing program for the 2014 racing season with their new Nitro Jam Pro Touring...
Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: The Answer To Yesterday’s Quiz!
So yesterday I showed you nothing but a short block and a couple of pistons and asked you to identify the engine, tell me who built it, and then tell me what it was installed in, and what the...
This Kind Of Ratty Looking 1973 Dart Is A Mopar Sleeper Supreme – RacingJunk Find
We like the fact that the photos of this car were taken at night and they aren’t all that super fantastic because it totally adds to the mystique of what would be a super bitchin’ sleeper...
Snake Bit: Dodge Viper Production Halted – Vipers Will Not Race At Le Mans In 2014
We think that the current generation of Dodge Viper is the best looking and most formidable performing model in the history of the Viper name. From the 1992 cars that captured the public’s...
Watch A Jeep Driver Make A Split Second Save To Avoid Complete Disaster – Wild!
Yesterday, we showed you some pretty nutty video of a modified RZR XP 900 scaling a near vertical cliff face at an off-road park in Disney, Oklahoma. Today we’re back at the same wall but in a...
NutJob: Why So Much Hatred For Mixing Parts Between Brands And The LS Engine In General?
It’s safe to say that yesterday’s April Fools Day item about Ford adding junkyard LS engines as an option in the 2015 Mustang was a “success” in that it went about as well as...
