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...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Who Is The Coolest TV Car Guy Currently On The Air?
We in another period where automotive themed TV shows are all over the place and from what we have heard and seen, even more of them are slated to be coming out in the months ahead. Obviously these...
On Tonight’s Back Road Gold, Corky Finds A Sea Of Cars, Including A ’59 T-Bird And Fire Truck!
It’s episode three of Backroad Gold, with Corky Coker, and this week his adventures take him to a field of cars that is so big you can’t see them all at once. The show airs at 6:30pm and...
Awesome Drag Video: Watch Grumpy Jenkins Live Up To His Nickname In A 1975 TV Interview – This Rules All
Away from the race track Bill Jenkins was an affable man with lots of friends and stories. At the track, he was as serious as a heart attack, not all that friendly a dude, and an intense competitor....
RacingJunk Find: An 800hp NASCAR Powered Former Trans Am Mustang Road Racing Destroyer
We know that there are far more sensible ways to go road racing. Lighter cars with smaller engines, go karts, Formula Vee racers, and all of that stuff but let’s be honest here. This is...
The Dynasphere Is A Fun British Creation From The 1930s That We Want To Drive! (Video)
People have been designing and building so-called “mono wheel” vehicles for a long time, like over 80 years now as is proven by the video below. We’re sure that the existed on paper...
MSD Named Official Ignition Of USMTS and USRA Racing Series
(Photo credit: USMTS.com) – We got word from the crew at MSD yesterday that two dirt racing series had names MSD ignition products their official ignitions and we thought that was pretty neat....
