Ford Fans Rejoice! A Blown Coyote Super Stocker To Kill ‘Em All Is Being Built In Michigan Right Now!
(By Bret Kepner) – One year ago, Watson Racing teamed with veteran Chris Holbrook to produce the quickest and fastest production car in drag racing history. In the team’s first event,...
This 1978 Kenworth Big Rig Has Marmon Herrington AWD And You Car Buy It Off Of Craigslist
(By Greg Rourke) – Marmon Herrington was an offshoot of the Marmon Motor Car Company, builder of the winning entry in the first Indy 500. Walter Marmon later teamed up with Arthur...
Open House At Auto Club Dragway Fontana TOMORROW! No Racing But Lots Of Fun Planned
Drag racing’s feel good story of the winter has been the progress at Auto Club Dragway in Fontana, California to complete a sound wall project and re-open as the only quarter mile strip in the...
THE PARTING SHIFT: IN CAR FOOTAGE OF A 1963 LIGHTWEIGHT 427 GALAXIE ROAD RACER FROM DOWN UNDER!
This is one of the coolest videos we have found in a while. Normally when one thinks of lightweight 1963 Ford Galaxies powered by 600hp 427 engines the drag strip is involved. That is not the case...
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...
