Breaking (Record) News: Hot Rod Power Tour Participants Do The World’s Largest Burnout – 73 Cars At Once!
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes8
Short story long, a new unofficial world record for the biggest burnout ever done has been set by 73 Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour participants at zMax Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. Previously,...
Happy National Donut Day! Here’s How The Camaro Team At Chevrolet Celebrates
Jun 07, 2013Chad Reynolds2
Happy National Donut Day from a couple of guys who know how to get their eat on. We also know a lot about the other kind of donuts. The tire smoke, fun in parking lots kind. Oh and the ones in the...
Crazy Video: A Drag Bike Runs 6.87 While Pulling a Quarter Mile Wheelie!
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes5
Motorcycle drag racer Chip Ellis has competed and won at all levels of the sport and on top of a multitude of different motorcycles. Most of you know his name from NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle...
Gallery: 50 Photos of 1932, 1933, and 1934 Fords!
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes6
When the words “hot rod” hit your ears, chances are that an image of a 1932 Ford shows up in your mind’s eye. If there were no 1932 Ford, there is an excellent chance that the car...
Retro-Gallery: 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion – Cacklefest Photo Gallery
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes5
(Editor’s note: One week from now, we’ll be in Bowling Green at the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion bringing you live video and great photos. Were going to look back at some of...
Friday Reason To Go Home Early And Drink: The Fisker Karma Is The Modern Delorean
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes15
My loathing of Deloreans has been well documented on the pages of BangShift. So well documented, people occasionally taunt me on Facebook regarding it. That wouldn’t bother me much except for...
Drag Week Prep Is ON! Watch Tom Bailey’s Sick Seconds Camaro Put Down 2,108hp At The Tires With Holley EFI!
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes4
Oh yeah, Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week prep is in full swing all over the country. Some guys are still cutting and welding, others are making test hits on the strip, and still others have tweaked combos...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Important To You Is Using Technology In Your Hot Rod?
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes22
After watching the video of the old school gassers getting after it on the eighth mile, it got me to thinking about the use of modern technology in hot rods. Some guys hate it all and won’t...
More Four Speed Gasser Greatness Video – This Is Stott On Stott Family Crime! Big RPM, BangShiftin’!
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes1
So what’s better than showing you Quain Stott running his gasser? How about showing you Quain Stott’s nephew, with some coaching from his legendary dad Mitch running his gasser against...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy – Kenny Chesney (1998)
Jun 07, 2013Brian Lohnes1
On my long ass drive to Ohio yesterday for the ECTA meet this weekend, I saw lots of tractors. None of them were manned with a dude with a hot chick hanging off of him, but maybe that’s a...
Would You Drive It? A 1972 Toyota Corolla Road Race Machine We Found On Ebay
Jun 06, 2013Chad Reynolds6
We dig old iron. Even the import stuff like this little 1972 Corolla, although we could live without what appears to be a miniature Chevy Monte Carlo front end on the thing. We even have video of...
Power Tour Is In Full Swing! Visit BangShift’s Sponsors, And Win Big!
Jun 06, 2013Chad Reynolds1
That’s right, hanging out in this joint may actually pay off for you guys eventually. After all, BangShift.com’s sponsors are some of the biggest and baddest on Hot Rod’s Power...
Vintage Baja Chevy Truck Formerly Owned By Steve McQueen And Raced By Mickey Thompson Heading For Auction
Jun 06, 2013Brian Lohnes5
Well if this isn’t the coolest Chevy 4×4 of all time, I’m not quite sure what is. This 1969 Chevy truck was the first ever factory built Baja competition truck that the company...
Roadkill: Freiburger and Finnegan Attack The Wilmington Mile With A Crusty Old Monza And Five Leaf Blowers!
Jun 06, 2013Brian Lohnes5
Having seen the glory of the leaf blower supercharged Monza in person at the season’s first ECTA event in Wilmington, Ohio, I was super interested to see the rest of the story about how the...












