Race Coverage: El Mirage SCTA Dry Lake Land Speed Racing – Warmups For Bonneville
Regardless of the media hype, real land speed racers will tell you that El Mirage records are much harder to get than a Bonneville record on the salt. The dirt, the lack of traction, the dust, the...
Show Gallery: The 2013 Goodguys Nashville Nationals – Rods, Muscle, Trucks, Rain and More!
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – We love Goodguys events, mainly because they’re not your typical car show. It’s much more than that, and it actually involves beating on your car,...
Celebrity Car Death Match: Rubber Duck’s 1977 Mack From Convoy VS The Blue Mule 1974 Ford From White Line Fever!
Yesterday it was a face off between iconic cars and drivers with Steve McQueen and James Bond doing battle with their Mustang and Aston Martin respectively. Both the characters and the cars will...
Celebrity Car Death Match: Steve McQueen’s Bullitt Mustang VS James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5!
Yesterday two cool Jeep trucks battled it out but today we have literal cinematic titans attacking one another. Today is the ultra classic British cool versus American bad ass cool. But before we get...
Jet Hot High Performance Coatings Is Hiring! Become Part Of The Team And Aftermarket Industry!
If you are a person with a sales background who loves cars, the road, and being a part of killer events and shows, does Jet Hot have an opportunity for you! That’s right. The industry leader in...
Incredible Fail Video: The Day “Jumpin” John Holland Failed To Jump 50 Chevettes, Totaled Four With His Body, and Lived!
That blurry figure you see flying through the air in the lead photo is not a super hero although after you see what he lived through in this disaster of a failed motorcycle jump, you’ll think...
eBay Find: A 1956 Ford Fairlane Custom Pro Streeter With The Heart Of A Rat!
Some of you will love this car and some of you will hate it. The lovers will be guys like us who don’t really get to worked up over crossbred engine swaps. The guys who hate it will be hardcore...
Craigslist Find: A Don Garlits Built 1984 Chrysler New Yorker With A Dual Quad 440 – UPDATE: GARLITS CLEARS THE AIR!
Update 5/21/2013 – As I had mentioned in the blog item that first ran regarding this car, I contacted Don Garlits himself regarding the claims made by the seller of the New Yorker. Some of the...
Russian Dash Cam Insanity: Watch An Out Of Control Van Fly An Incredible Distance Through The Sky!
We were tipped off to this video by multiple BS readers were were left as slack jawed as we were once viewing it. We have no idea what the hell caused this car to hit a barrier at an amazing rate of...
Celebrity Car Death Match: The 1982 Jeep J10 From Twister VS The 1963 Jeep Gladiator From Tremors!
(Editor’s note: Obviously the events surrounding the Oklahoma tornado are horrible and we’re sending our best to everyone effected by the disaster. We certainly didn’t plan on...
COMP Performance Group Maintains Huge Presence On Power Tour In 2013 – You Could Win Big!
In 2013 the COMP Performance group will maintain a big presence on the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour and that’s great news for anyone planning on making the trip in their hot rod. Why? Because...
Magnante Speaks: Here’s the True Story Of The Bad Seed Chevette – Part One Of Three!
(Words and photos by Steve Magnante) – It has been over a decade since the April 2000 issue of Hot Rod magazine appeared on newsstands across the nation. The main image depicted an austere...
Drag Gallery: The ADRL Spring Drags 2013 – Cordova, Illinois
(Photos by Sean Smyth) – While Chad was up on the scaffolding in Cordova, Illinois during the ADRL Spring Drags last weekend, BangShift contributing photographer Sean Smyth was at ground level...
Video: Watch Chris Evans’ Massive X275 Wheelstand From MIR Last Weekend!
It has been a while since we’ve shown you a good old fashioned, all four wheels off the ground wheelstand video. This is racer Chris Evans competing in his great looking X275 Mustang at the...
