BangShift Question Of The Day: Big Or Small? Which Tires Do You Like Most On Drag Cars?
With South Georgia Motorsports Park’s “Lights Out V” race set to take place next weekend, everyone has Drag Radial on the brain right now. And with the advancements in Drag Radial...
Video: This Old Italian Mechanic Finds, And Restores, The First Porsche Ever Built
Take one gnarly old Italian Mechanic, let him tell the story of his escapades as a kid with the family auto repair business. Sprinkle in the history of an incredibly bitchin collection of Italian...
Mad Science! A Drag Racer Sliced And Diced A Pair Of LS Heads, Stuck Them Together And Mounted Them On A Ford Inline Six
Now this is really something! A short while back, a thread popped up in the BangShift forums about a racer who had taken a pair of cathedral port LS Chevy cylinder heads, shortened them by one hole a...
This Little Kid’s Reaction To Drifting Around In A Car With His Dad Is Flipping Awesome
What you see in the lead photos is the face of unbridled joy and happiness. What you see in the lead photo is the birth of a gearhead. What you see in the lead photo is a moment lots of us...
Electro-Freak Show: This 1979 Citivan Electric Car Could Be Yours!
We know you you’re thinking and yes, this amazing machine could be yours and the owner would even trade you some junky muscle car for it! Got a Chevelle or maybe a Charger that you just...
Fantastic Video Of Ab Jenkins Hauling Ass For 24 Hours Straight (By Himself) At Bonneville In 1932
We’ve all pushed our own limits, driven through the night, seen things that weren’t really there due to exhaustion and maybe even nodded off at the wheel. Chances are, we did it in a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Did You Take Driver’s Ed In?
A conversation with our own Craig Fitzgerald led to this question of the day. He gave me a smart ass answer to a question I asked him and that answer involved the words Dodge Omni. Like someone...
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...
