Tune In: Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational On This Saturday 5pm Eastern on MAVTV
Set your DVRs to stun! This Saturday at 5pm eastern time the 2013 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational will air on MAVTV and you’ll be able to see the slugfest that was OUSCI 2013. BangShift...
The Westinghouse Vertical Parking Machine Was A 1930s Marvel That We Wish Was Still Around Today (Video)
While the name is pretty staid and unimpressive, the Westinghouse Vertical Parking Machine was a marvel in 1932 when it was installed and put into use at a parking lot in Chicago. With space for 48...
The Entire SCORE Off Road Series For 2014 Will Be On CBS, And We Will Be There!
That’s right folks, for the first time in SCORE Baja Racing history, there is going to be televised action from each and every stop on the World Championship Series. We LOOOOOVVEEEEE...
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...
