Great Gasser And Funny Car Race Jim “Fireball” Shores Has Died At 86 Years Old
A tough weekend for drag racing legends for sure as Ken Dondero passed away and now news comes in that gasser and funny car great Jim Shores has died. Shores was the wrenching half of the famed...
Motorized Freak of the Week: The World War 1 Russian Lebedenko Tank
This thing is by far the weirdest and possibly most massive self-propelled land vehicle we’ve ever heard of. Built by a Russian engineer as the ultimate weapon for use in WWI, it ended up as a...
Video: “Car Fighting” Video Is Unreal
Have you ever watched a video where something you love is destroyed? You know that you shouldn’t watch, but you can’t peel your eyes away from the screen until it’s over? Maybe you...
A Photo From The Lohnes Archive: An Awesome Road Racing Malibu
SCCA racing gets unfairly labeled as being high brow and clean handed. I can attest as a low brow person who was normally up to his neck in fluids leaking from a VW Rabbit that it’s totally...
Video: Super Bitchin 1966 Ford F100 Pre-Runner Truck Catching Air At The Dunes
We always love jumping videos around here, and have also been getting into the whole pre-runner vibe while working on the $200 Hauler so when we can across this cool video from MOTOLife we had to run...
REPLAY: BANGSHIFT 2014 PRO WINTER WARM-UP BROADCAST
To answer the most popular question that we have received at BangShift world HQ over the last two weeks….YES we will be live broadcasting the 2014 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach...
The RideTech Barrett-Jackson Adventure Continues….The Day Three Report With Photos Here!
Bret Voelkel of RideTech has been filing daily dispatches from the 2014 Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction. He’s there to sell his wife Sharon’s Pontiac GTO convertible along with his...
Top Secret Drag Tech: Toyota Racing Racing Has An Interesting New Device For Measuring Track Grip!
The photo below was taken yesterday on the starting line of Palm Beach International Raceway and it shows an interesting device that was being used, maybe for the first time in public, by the fellow...
CL Find: This Geo Metro Off Road Buggy Will Kill You….But You’ll Die Happy
We’ve got to give it to you guys, the BangShift army. There’s not a better group of readers on planet Earth, even though we believe a large percentage of you are technically not...
Watch The Baddest Ass Olds Powered 1967 Olds 442 Make More Than 1,450hp To The Tires! Absolutely Awesome
Oldsmobile fans, bow to your new master. Gene Newton’s absolutely shag nasty 1967 Olds 442 has laid the hammer down and we have the video to prove it. The car has been at DMC Racing in Halifax,...
Watch The First C7 Corvette In The 10s Make A SCREAMING Dyno Pull And Make Big Steam With An ECS Blower Kit
When I got down to Florida on Wednesday, Chad was stuck getting some sort of cavity search from TSA officials. I had a few hours on my hands so I hit the road and headed down to Redline Motorsports...
Rumor In The Pits: Drag Race Central May Not Continue For 2014 Season – Hoping This Is Not True
All the buzz coming from the teams and people here at the 2014 PRO Winter Warm up has been super positive but there is one rumor that we heard in the pits today that has us bumming out, if it is...
A Jag V12 Powered Ferguson Tractor Plowing Snow At High Speed Is BangShifty Perfection
Last week I showed a video of a six second, street legal Camaro making laps and cruising the back roads of Maryland and joked that it was Chad’s wet dream come to life. Well kids, this is mine....
eBay Find: This One Of None 1962 Lincoln Continental Station Wagon Need A Home!
We have shown lots of cars built as “what ifs” or “one of none” factory combinations here on BangShift over the years, especially never made wagons. These wagons range from...
