Wreckage Video: Wayne Mellinger’s Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Crash From The 2013 March Meet
Les Mayhew, the dude who creates all of the totally awesome NitroAmerica videos has begun to release some of this footage from the 2013 March Meet. His first video from the race is a look at Wayne...
Funny Video: The Unnecessarily Complex and Dangerous Russian Way to Start a Car With a Dead Battery
Pop starting a stick shift car with a dead battery is like BangShift 101. Hell, both Chad and I have owned vehicles that ONLY started this way for months at a time. I used to park my truck in college...
RacingJunk Find: An Amazingly Well Done 426 Hemi Powered 1970 Challenger Stocker – Gorgeous Mopar Muscle!
Stock eliminator drag racers largely take a lot of pride in the looks and condition of their cars. Stockers retain so much of the OE interior and exterior pieces that they just ooze muscle car cool....
Gallery: The Top Gear Festival – Sydney Motorsports Park – Australia
(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – Our man on the scene in Australia, Darryl Daniels sent us an awesome dispatch of photos from the 2013 Top Gear Festival that was recently held at Sydney Motorsports...
Auto Meter Wants Your Car For SEMA 2013 – All Expense Paid Trip Your Car Included! Chance Of A Lifetime – Click Here To Enter!
One of the dreams of any gearhead is to have a car they built or own on display at the SEMA show. It is where the biggest news of the year is broken, where the biggest and most important movers and...
Dyno Video: Watch A GT500 Mustang With A 3.6L Kenne Bell Blower Pull To 7,000 RPM – Screaming Goodness!
You certainly don’t have the like Mustangs to respect the late model GT500s that currently prowl the streets. With their blown 5.4L engines, even in stock form they haul buckets of ass. Of...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Which American Factory Turbo Car Stands As The Coolest Ever?
There have been lots of turbocharged cars trotted out by American manufacturers over the years, with varying levels of success. Today’s landscape is far different than the days of yore with...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Dragsters On The Prowl – The Woofers
Here’s a little vintage vinyl to get your day rolling. The tune is called Dragsters On The Prowl and it is a catchy one that we presume comes from the 1960-1965 time frame. The name of the...
POWERSHIFT LIVE TONIGHT: CHAD AND BRIAN TALK MARCH MEET, FLYING ALTEREDS, OILY TOP FUELERS, HORRIBLE HOTELS, AND MORE! 9PM EASTERN/6PM PACIFIC — TUNE IN!
That’s right kids! Its Thursday so that means BangShift’s live weekly romp around room with Brian and Chad is ON for this evening. We’ll be talking about our awesome week(end) in...
Holley LS Fest September 6,7,8 2013 — Mark Your Calendars Now!
Holley has announced the dates of the 2013 LS Fest which has grown from its humble beginnings to be one of the biggest, most multi-faceted meets in the country for anything and everything GM...
Vintage Video: A 1987 Drag Documentary Looks At Kenny Bernstein And The Budweiser Crew – Neat Stuff!
My first memories of really being a fan of drag racing become clear about the time I was seven. That was 1987, the same year that a German film crew made this short documentary about Kenny Bernstein...
Wild Video: Two Guys Crash A Car At A Polish Rally And A Tree Nearly Skewers Them – Inches From Death!
This is a wild video that we found taken in-car at a Polish rally. It is obviously not recent because the trees are green and the weather seems to indicate that is isn’t winter time. Rally...
Epic Historic Road Racing Video: Footage From The Opening Day At Riverside International Raceway – Ol’ Yeller, Corvettes, Mercedes, Ferraris and More!
This is the coolest silent move that I have ever seen. The footage was taken on the opening day of the now gone Riverside International Raceway in California and it features some of the coolest road...
BangShift Question of the Day: What’s The Weirdest/Coolest Thing You’ve Seen At A Swap Meet Lately?
While cruising through the swap meet in Bakersfield, I happened upon the contraption below and it stopped me dead in my tracks. It appears to be a propane draw through carb and turbo setup that is on...
