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Two Old Guys In A Corvette: 46th President Joe Biden Speed Shifts His 1967 Corvette with Jay Leno on the Streets of Southern California

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or Independents, none of it matters if you are a real car guy. In the video below you’ll see Jay Leno and President Joe Biden take a ride through SoCal in...

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Ride Along with Brian Otts in the #13 Super Modified Running The A-Main at Meridian Speedway From 11th to 4th!

If you aren’t familiar with Super Modified circle track cars, then you are missing out. This year at PRI, my buddy Bigun and I walked all around one drooling the whole time. While they do have...

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Final Drive Day, Shenanigans, and Shootouts! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 | Race Day Five Means Driving Across The Plains, Burnouts, and Shootouts at SRCA Dragstrip In Great Bend Kansas

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Five video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! Day Three AND Four were both at Pueblo Motorsports Park and then...

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Iron Trap Garage is Sand Bending Zoomie Headers For Their 1932 Ford Roadster Drag Car!- Old School Method Explained!

We’re spoiled nowadays by mandrel bent tubing that is available for just about any project at any radius you can imagine. Some of it is really affordable too. But not always. And every shape...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Air Conditioning, Atlas Twin-Stick, A Custom Grill and Bumpstops!

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, and man this thing is really coming along. In this installment we are sharing three videos that cover everything from the Vintage Air A/C, the Atlas...

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The Parting Shift: 347ci of Pissed Off Ford Small Block Assault Farmington Dragway

This kick ass in-car video of a 1986 Mustang drag car is just as appealing for the audio as it is for the visual aspects. Sure, you’ll see the car launch and the driver expertly run through the...

Speed Budget: Ten Pro Touring Must Have Go Fast Parts For Less Than $200.

(Words and Photos by Rodney Prouty) When I’m talking to people at races and shows, they often lament that their car(s) would be faster if they only had the money to make it happen. Well, firstly if...

Donut Derelicts Cruise In Photos From Huntington Beach – Don’t Hate Us Cause It’s Not Snowing!

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) Yesterday we told you about Bob Chiluk’s week of automotive fun in the sun, that he and his father in law have made into an annual pilgrimage revolving around the Grand...

Video Of A Kid Thrashing A Little Diesel Citroen Around The ‘Ring Will Make You Want To Race RIGHT NOW

Driving slow cars fast is a topic we have broached here on BangShift a bunch. My own experience in that arena taught me a ton and serves as the basis for my love of this video you’ll see below....

Historic Video: 1960’s Army Testing Of Curtiss-Wright Air Car Is A Glimpse Of A Future That Never Was

I don’t know about you, but it is now the year 2014 and I’m feeling a bit mislead as there’s not a single personal jet pack or flying car available for me to purchase from a major company....

Comp Cams Is Hiring A Computer Guy/Girl! Are You One? Need A New Job? Check It Out Here –

We’d be 100% lying if we said we knew what a Senior UNIX Systems Administrator/MySQL Database Administrator did, but COMP Cams needs one and you could be that guy or girl! Chad and I have a...

This Six Wheel Dodge Pleasure Palace Could Be All Yours For Just $3,000!

Ever looked at a 1980 Dodge conversion van and thought, “This bitch needs another axle.” You probably haven’t because you’re not on the level that the person who built this...

The 2014 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk: Functional, Fun But….WTF (Why The Face?)

From 1984-2001 the Jeep Cherokee was a tough, indestructible, and basic SUV. In a stroke of what we will smart-assedly call “genius”, Chrysler killed off the Cherokee after 2001 and...

Video: This Insane 12-Rotor Rotary Engine Has Us Wanting One Bad – 5,000 Potential Horsepower

Yes, we said 9,000 horsepower potential. We’re not pulling that number out of our keisters either. It is listed on the R12 website as the highest potential output from this 960ci 12-rotor piece...

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Turbo Buick V6 Powered Geo Metro Goes 9s @ 140+ — You Thought The Fiat 126 Was Bad Ass? This Thing Is Insane (video)

(By Greg Rourke) – Show of hands everyone!  Who doesn’t like a big motor in a small car?  Hmm…zero, just as I thought.  After Brian’s story about the small block powered...

Historic Sportscar Racing Ltd. Names Dorsey Schroeder as Competition Director For 2014 And Beyond

We got a note from our friends at HSR saying that they had some big news and when we told them to lay it on us we found out that they weren’t kidding! The organization has named Dorsey...

3D printer Announced That Can Print Carbon Fiber: Printing Of Car Parts On The Horizon? (w/video)

Listen, I’m a nerd, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that I’m really excited about the video at the bottom of this blog item which shows an “affordable” 3D printer that claims to be...

Donk On Ice: Video Of A Donked-Out Caprice Trapped On Ice Sums Up The Southern Ice/Snow Catastrophe In A Nutshell

We have seen the images from Atlanta to Alabama of trapped cars, wrecked trucks, and people stranded on highways because of ice and snow conditions that descended on otherwise warm places. Who is to...

Bob’s Big Boy Cruise Night Photos – The Iconic So Cal Hot Rodding Spot You Need To Visit

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) Every year Bob Chiluk, and his father in-law Jim, come to Southern California for a week of hot rodding fun and excitement and a little bit of surfing. They come out during the...