Best of BangShift 2013: Car Feature: A Supremely Bitchin’ 2004 Chrysler Pacifica – Seating For Six And A Dash Clock!
(Editor’s note: This story originally ran on April Fool’s day as a joke. It is a “car feature” that highlights the worst car I have ever claimed ownership of. This 2004...
Quain Stott, Greg Porter, Gene Cromer And Gassers Galore At Greer Dragway
You’ve seen us run videos of Quain Stott and his ultra bitchin Executioner wheels up Willy’s Gasser on multiple occasions here on BangShift.com, but this might be the best video he has...
Best of BangShift 2013: Hot Rod Homecoming 2013 – Famous Muscle Cars and Street Machines
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – Now that we showed you the race cars, let’s take a look at the famous muscle cars and street machines that filled one of the exhibition halls at Pomona during...
Andy Granatelli Dead At 90 – Maverick, CEO of STP, Mr 500, American Racing Royalty
Andy Granatelli, one of the greatest names in American motorsports history has died at the age of 90 years old. He was the owner of two winning Indy 500 entries, the first was driven by Mario...
Michael Schumacher Suffers Severe Head Trauma In Skiing Accident Life Hangs In Balance
News reports are flooding in from all over the globe that seven time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has suffered a terrible skiing accident in France. During the course of the skiing...
Best of BangShift 2013: A 1972 Chevy Ramp Truck That Hauls A Chevelle and Hauls Tail Too!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Okay, so if you haven’t noticed, we really dig trucks. We like bigger-than-normal trucks and the weird ones too, but sometimes it takes a simple classic...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Custom Built V-Twin Spin To 12,000RPM And Make Nealy 120hp For A Pulling Garden Tractor!
Tractor pulling, in all of its various forms is pretty serious business. Sure the big diesel super stocks get lots of glory and we always pee a little when we see a machine with multiple blown...
Best of BangShift 2013: An All-Steel 1932 Ford Drag The Bumper And Still Run A Haul Ass Eighth-Mile Pass At Irwindale!
There’s only one thing better than video of a huge wheelstand and that’s video of a huge wheelstand that ends with the driver legging out a quick pass on top of it. That’s what...
Best of BangShift 2013: Patina, Classic American Iron, Potential Gassers and More At A New Zealand Junkyard
(Photos supplied by Kev Roberts) – Probably the single coolest thing we do at BangShift is take you places that you otherwise would never get to see. Whether it is to drag races, collections,...
Best of BangShift 2013: This Running and Driving Half Scale Fiat Topolino A Dad Built For His Son Rules (video)
(Photos and video by Tom Doughty) – We get sent lots of stuff to the tip line (see the contact us button up on top of the page) and we use as much as we possibly can on the blog here at...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Nasty AA/Fuel Altered Wreck From Alaska! In-Car and Out Of Car Footage!
Alaska Raceway Park in Palmer, Alaska is a nice IHRA sanctioned, quarter mile strip that services the needs of American drag racers up in the great white north. The place is surrounded by majestic...
Best of BangShift 2013: Roger Penske and Mark Donohue Pitching Sunoco Fuels Circa 1968 (Video)
Roger Penske could be the coolest guy alive. He’s rich beyond all comprehension, has been in racing for nearly 50 years now, and still stands as a very successful racing team owner in both open...
The Most Awesome Drag Strip Memorial Ever -Photos And Inside Story Of This Great Send Off
(Text by Bret Kepner – Photos by Bret Kepner, Jason Phillips and Kevin Corzine) Chris Garcia was the very definition of the term, “hardcore drag racer”. The news of the 52 year-old’s...
Best of BangShift 2013: Watch A Fuel Altered Suffer A ‘Chute Failure And End Up In A Cornfield! Everyone Is OK!
The World Fuel Altered Nationals are a yearly part of the program at the famous Eddyville Raceway Park in Oksaloosa, Iowa. Eddyville is a really fast eighth mile strip and this race is a big one for...
