Watch A Drag Racer Suffer A Horrendous Wreck After He Downshifts His Car In The Timing Traps – In Car Video
Dec 18, 2013Brian Lohnes24
Alabama’s Atmore Dragway is the scene for this wild and violent in-car video. We find ourselves in the cockpit of a race car as the driver fires it up and prepares for a burnout. The...
Watch Kris Foster And Other Dirtbike Free Riders Perform Incredible Stunts And Jumps Using The Land!
Dec 18, 2013Brian Lohnes20
As best we know, dirt bike free riding is simply heading out into the countryside, mountains, etc with your dirt bike and eschewing roads and trails for the natural habitat and the cool obstacles it...
Hey Hot Shoe! You Can Race At Sears Point Raceway In Your Own Car, And Support Charity!
Dec 18, 2013Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Hey Hot Shoe! You Can Race At Sears Point Raceway In Your Own Car, And Support Charity!
(Darr Hawthorne/Sonoma Raceway) Do you think you’ve got the driving chops to compete on the same track where likes of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Ryan Briscoe, Tony Kanaan or any of the Andretti’s...
eBay Find: A Bone Stock 1938 Fiat Topolino — We’re Not Sure That We Have Ever Seen One Before!
Dec 18, 2013Brian Lohnes11
This could be one of the lowest horsepower eBay finds we have ever showcased here at BangShift but then again when was the last time you saw a freaking stock, steel, complete 1938 Fiat Topolino. We...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Coolest Thing About Modern Automotive Technology?
Dec 18, 2013Brian Lohnes20
Over the next weeks and months you’ll see more regular “new car” content here at BangShift as we’ll be getting an array of vehicles to cruise around in and review from...
BangShift Photo Highlight Reel: Lohnes’s Favorite Snaps From An Adventurous 2013
Dec 18, 2013Brian Lohnes5
(Photos by the author) — So Nutting kicked off a series of “BangShift Photo Highlight Reel” stories that we’re going to run featuring all of our contributors who want to cull...
The Humbler: Five Buddies Built This Cheap Turbo Jeep To Go 12s And Destroy On The Autocross
Dec 18, 2013Brian Lohnes22
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – This could be the most BangShifty vehicle we have ever featured before. Built by a group of five smart friends and raced at the Grassroots Motorsports $2,000...
This 1977 Ramcharger Promotional Video Is 70s Truck Porn At Its Best – Wagon Wheels, Knobby Tires, OOGA BOOGA!
Dec 17, 2013Brian Lohnes8
For probably the last 10 years I have dreamed about building a late 1970s style 4×4 truck, complete with the chrome nerf bar in the bed, white steel wagon wheels, maybe some Ground Hawg tires,...
Short Shift: A Weekend Road Trip In The 2014 Mazda 3 Grand Touring Edition Will Make You Want To Kill Your Small SUV
Dec 17, 2013Brian Lohnes7
(Welcome to the Short Shift! This is where we’ll do less intensive reviews of new cars and stuff that we get a chance to have some quality time with. Manufacturers will sometimes ask us if we...
This Match Race In Thailand Between A Hot Rod Diesel Truck And A 125cc Scooter Is Nuts!
Dec 17, 2013Brian Lohnes9
We have been harping for a long time on the idea that drag racing is not just something that happens between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. There are strips on every continent aside from those...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Dave Nutting’s Favorite Shots from 2013 – Trars, NHRA, and More!
Dec 17, 2013Dave Nutting2
With only a few weeks left in 2013, it’s that time of year again where all of the crazies that spend untold hours behind the viewfinder of a camera in order to bring you BangShifters the best...
Watch One Of The Most Horrendous High Speed Drag Race Wrecks We Have Ever Seen
Dec 17, 2013Brian Lohnes27
Puerto Rico International Speedway was born from the remains of a US Army base that was constructed in 1940. In 1975 the track opened up as a drag strip and outside of a couple years in the 1980s it...
Craigslist Gold: This Ad For A Cool 1955 Olds Will Crack You Up!
Dec 17, 2013Brian Lohnes9
BangShifter John Dent of the Denver, Colorado area sent us the tip on this ad and when he told us that we’d love it he was right! Lots of times funny CL ads are hawking some uninspiring junk...
Stu Hilborn Dead At 96 – Fuel Injection Master Was A Huge Influence On Industry
Dec 16, 2013Brian Lohnes11
Stu Hilborn’s fascination with fuel injection and adapting it for use by hot rodders had a massive impact on the racing and rodding scene that continues to be felt today. Hilborn died Monday...












