New: Rocket Racing Wheels Offers RPM7 “Magnesium Gold” For All New Rocket Wheels
Remember how all the Magnesium wheels, blowers, and valvecovers of the ’60s and ’70s were sort of a gold color? Well that gold color was actually a coating called DOW 7 and was applied to...
SummerNats Top 10 Burnouts. The Aussie’s Own The Title “King’s Of Smoke”
After running the 1320 Video Burnout Contest video yesterday I had tire smoke on the brain and decided we needed more. A lot more. So, here are the top 10 Burnouts as judged at the 2013 SummerNats in...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s Your Favorite Vintage Drag Car?
Looking at Joe’s photos from Beaver Springs yesterday had us totally cranked up on nostalgia drag racing. That’s led to more than a couple conversations regarding our favorite old drag...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Surf City” Jan and Dean (1963)
“I bought a ’34 wagon and we call it a Woodie, Surf City here we come, You know it’s not very cherry, It’s an oldie but a goodie, Surf City here we come.” How can you...
Nostalgia Video: 1966 Lion’s Drag Racing Video By French Film Crew. Excellent Quality Footage.
Too bad we don’t have a clue as to what the hell they are saying, but we don’t really care. All we know is this is some of the best quality footage we’ve seen from Lion’s in...
Ebay Find: If The Blues Brothers Built A Pro Street Car, This Is What It Would Look Like. BangShift Approved.
When we get stuff like this in the BangShift.com In Box, it always make us giggle like little girls. No matter how many times we see something weird, like this Blues Brothers inspired Polara Pro...
Super Slow Motion Video: A Fox Body Mustang Stands On The Bumper And Slo Mo Is Awesome!
This is great video of a Fox Body Mustang GT Convertible drag radial car leaving the starting line and standing on the bumper. In fact, you can see that the rear tires actually leave the ground if...
This Is It! The Final Gallery From Meltdown Drags At Byron. 100 More Great Shots.
Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk are the hardest working, unpaid sonsa…. Uh….they work really hard to send us great photos and we don’t pay them. They rule. And you should love them for...
New Product: Painless Performance Unveils New Nostalgia Harness. Simple And Black Is Where It’s At.
The guys at Painless Performance have been building high quality wiring harnesses for decades, and we’ve installed dozens of them. One feature of a Painless harness that makes it super simple...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “I Get Around” Beach Boys (1964) When Cruising And Racing Were King
We’re huge Beach Boys fans around here as you well know, which is why it’s sort of strange that we haven’t had “I Get Around” on the Daily Tune Up until now. I love this...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Car Or Truck Model Name Ever?
On Monday we asked you what the coolest, or best, car or truck model name ever was and you gave some really interesting answers. Mercury’s Comet and Marauder were both mentioned, as was the...
Race Photos: Pro Mods, Jet Cars, Nostalgia Funny Cars, 10.5 And More At Tulsa Raceway Park
(Words and Photos by Brad Klaasen) The Mickey Thompson Shootout Series rolled into T-town once again, for round five of the nine race series at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park, and thanks to the...
Burnout Video: The 1320Video RPM Powersports 2013 Burnout Contest Part 1
We are lucky enough to have known Kyle at 1320video for several years now and can say, without hesitation, that his videos are always entertaining. One of our favorite things about them is the fact...
Caption This Photo: More Fire! Bill Speed Blows It Up On A Hot Lap In The Black Widow Exhaust S10 Pickup
Last Friday we got a photo of Bill Speed in the Black Widow Tuned Exhaust S10 at Adam’s Motorsports Park throwing flames like none other. Well, after hearing about our post Bill sent us some...
