The Parting Shift: A 1950 GMC with Two Transmissions and Two Screaming Strokes of Detroit Diesel Power!
Oh man, is this cool! We stumbled upon this video of a kick ass 1950 GMC truck zipping down the road and making sweet, sweet diesel noise from the turbocharged four cylinder Detroit engine and...
Shell Prelude: Watch the world’s largest floating facility float out of dry dock
Say what you will about how things made today aren’t up to the quality standards of years past, but the Shell Prelude is proof that man can still accomplish amazing engineering feats when tasked to...
The 2013 BangShift Awards – Awards That Have No Meaning And Very Little Value Inside!
(Photos by Dave Nutting, the author, random people about town, Charles Wickam, and a cat named Boots) – Hello and welcome to the 2013 BangShift Awards For Automotive Excellence. These awards...
New Product: Hotchkis Sport Suspension Announces New APS Adjustable Shocks Are Available Now
Shocks seem to be the hottest thing in the aftermarket lately, and the guys at Hotchkis have decided they are going to jump in with both feet with the introduction of their new APS Adjustable shocks...
“I will not ship these wheels to North Korea, for matters of national security” – The Most Awesome Craigslist Ad For Wheels Ever
Those of you out there who are automotive journalist-philes (otherwise known as stalkers in the eyes of the law) probably know the name Ezra Dyer. Ezra has been writing for publications...
Sideways With Rodney Prouty: How To Build A Thirty Five Thousand Dollar Car, By Spending Fifty Thousand!
(Text by Rodney Prouty, Photos By Rodney Prouty and Suzy Bauter) So, you’ve decided you want a hot rod? You start scanning the internet for ideas and opportunities. You start scouring the forums...
BangShift 2013 Highlight Reel: Tommy Lee Byrd’s Favorite Shots From The Year That Was!
(Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – It’s the end of the year, and for me, it’s hard to remember all the places I’ve been in the past 12 months. Drag strips, car shows, trade shows, road trips...
NitroAmerica Presents In Car Video And Interviews With Tera Wendland Graves, Junior Fuel Driver
Tera Wendland Graves is a certified bad ass and Nostalgia Drag Racing junky. Her and husband Chris Graves run Max Cackle Photography and submit photos to us here on BangShift.com pretty regularly....
Watch A Tuned Up And Hot Rodded New LT1 Engine Make More Than 620 HP On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated
The buzz around the LT1 engine and the smaller variants of it that can be found in trucks has been totally positive since the engine family began hitting the streets in Corvettes and Silverados. Our...
Eight Minutes Of 2013’s Wildest Rally Scrapes, Jumps, and Wrecks! Cinch Your Belts Down Tight For This One
Spoiler alert: things don’t end well for the little VW captured in mid-flight up there in our lead photo but it sure looks like a hell of a time, right? Rally videos have provided the most off...
Gallery: A Collection Of Cool Traditional Hot Rods – Old School Cool
(Photos from the BangShift Archive) – If I was given a stack of cash and told to build a hot rod, it would come out looking like most of the stuff in this gallery. These aren’t rat rods,...
NutJob: Why Ebay Motors should be blocked from my computer
Ebay and I have a love-hate relationship: As a seller the fees are getting ridiculous, and as a buyer it’s getting increasingly difficult to find what you’re looking for among all of the power...
A Romanian Kid Built A Lego Hot Rod And It Actually Drives! 500,000 Pieces!
Be warned people, be warned. I showed this video to my Lego obsessed 5 and 7 year old sons and they flipped out. More specifically they flipped out, ran upstairs and then I heard the noise. You know...
Craigslist Find: A Shorty Monte Carlo That Dave Nutting Admitted He Would Drive
You all know and love Dave Nutting as our G-body obsessed blogging sidekick here on BangShift but after six or eighteen of you sent us an e-mail about the totally jacked up “shorty” Monte...
