Question of the Day: What Track in What Country Would You Most Like to Visit For a Race?
Last year’s Optima Batteries Face Off at Road America was a killer event and I am headed back this year for the 2013 version, at a track that is considered to be one of the most famed in road...
Bizarro Find: The Most Insane Custom Show Truck Ever Built – We Can Only Ask Why?!
A tip from intrepid BangShift reader Ed Hohenberg led us to look at, ponder, verp a little, and then post this 1970 GMC custom truck currently listed on Hemmings for sale. For the low, low price of...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: GTO Rock (Artist Unknown) 1970
I am a total sucker for these promotional songs and albums that Detroit manufacturers put out in the 1960s. Jim Wangers seems to have been the king of these things promoting Pontiac and specifically...
Holley’s 110th Birthday Bash: You Get The Gifts! Buy Stuff And Get Free Stuff. Our Kind Of Birthday Party!
Holley is celebrating 110 years of mixing air and fuel so that internal combustion engines can make horsepower, all while putting smiles on the faces of drivers. It’s that simple. Sure,...
Island Dragway Reopening July 5th With 3-Day Bracket And Nostalgia Event! – GREAT NEWS!
After a tumultuous 6 months, Island Dragway in New Jersey is proud to announce that they will be reopening July 5th, 2013! And in a show of force, the event is not just going to be some test and tune...
Ebay Find: Divorced…What Brian Will Be Once He Acquires This Bitchin 1949 GMC Wrecker
This is another Scott Payton submission, part of our daily email loop that includes motorhomes or box trucks, and the occasional wrecker. Of course, there is nobody we know that would look better...
Gallery: The 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals – Lover Of The Blue Oval Bridage? CLICK HERE!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Well, it was a hit and miss weekend at the 2013 Carlisle All Ford Nationals. More of a hit, really. Rain killed most of Friday including my favorite activity,...
Video: Banging Gears In A Jerico Equipped ’67 427 Fairlane Nostalgia Super Stocker
The Hayes family is all about FE powered 4 speed racing, and we are glad to know it! Earl and Dave sent us this great video of their ’67 427 Fairlane at I-57 Dragstrip a couple weekends ago, as...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Rock and Roll” The Cadillac Edition by Led Zeppelin (2002)
Surprisingly, this is the first song by Led Zeppelin ever used in a commercial. I would never have guessed that, but when Cadillac decided in 2002 that this was going to be the song that launched the...
Win Cash From Champion Spark Plugs By Sending In A Photo Of Your Car: This Is Super Simple!
So simple even a BangShifter can do it is what they must have been thinking. And the great thing is all of you guys are out driving your cars right now, or have great photos of it from Power Tour and...
Video: Indoor Donuts Around A Pole In A Shelby Cobra. Seriously, We Couldn’t Make This Stuff Up!
While looking up another funny video that we will show later this week, we stumbled across this one. It’s title is Best Burnout Ever! Indoors!. Well, there isn’t much smoke, but we...
Cool Parts: Trans-Dapt Introduces “Swap In A Box” Kit For V8 S-10 Swaps – Everything You Need In One Place!
There’s currently one massive problem with V8 S-10 trucks. That problem? Neither Chad or I own one! Since taking a ride in a friend’s sleeper V8 S10 in college, I have been hooked on the...
Funny Car Folk Art: Build Yours or Buy Mine – Helpful Tips For Building Altered Wheelbase Models
(Words and Photos by Steve Magnante – SteveMags.com) – I love building model cars. There, I’ve said it. Even though certain voices in society call model building a childish pursuit,...
Ebay Find: A 1963 Lyn Air PB2500. What We Would Do To Build Into BangShift’s Mobile Command Center
Let’s face it, sometimes we march to the beat of a different drummer around here. After all, Brian is building a mid ’80s Caprice, I’m infatuated with old motorhomes, and we somehow...
