Craigslist Find: A Cool 1970s Chevy Van Go Kart That Was Actually A GM Promotional Item!
As we all know, car dealers and companies go to some creative lengths to get people into their showrooms to buy cars. From wacky ads, promotions, and deals that are literally too good to be true,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Under-Appreciated Skill That Gearheads Have And “Regular” People Don’t?
Fact: gearheads are different from “regular” people because we approach lots of stuff in every day situations differently. Typically we’re better problem solvers, quicker thinking...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Brand New Car” The Rolling Stones (1994)
“Brand New Car” by the Rolling Stones may not rank up there with some of their more famous hits, but the album Voodoo Lounge did go double platinum and was number 2 in the charts. Still,...
eBay Find: A Restored, $195,000 V-Twin Hemi Engine From The Late 1930s – $3,100 Per Cubic Inch!
This may be the answer to the question, “What do you get the motorcycle guy who has it all?” Even THAT guy doesn’t have one of these and at $195,000, you’d seriously need it...
Cool Video: Watch The Ice Monster Camaro Throw Dirt And Slide Around A Swedish Track – Our Kind Of Rally Style Fun!
You all know and love the ice monster Camaro from Sweden. Jobergg always posts cool videos of the gnarly crumpled racer chewing up ice courses, flying through the woods, burning tires to the cords,...
Speed Industry Icon Harvey Crane Passes At Age 81 – Innovator, Inventor, And Cam Genius
Harvey Crane Jr. passed away last Friday at the age of 81. In 1953 Crane founded his company called Crane Engineering with the sole purpose of increasing the performance and efficiency of internal...
Land Speed Gallery: WannaGoFast Chicago 2013 — Half Mile Land Speed Action!
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – Our gearhead forefathers probably got it from the generation before them, so the premise of us finding a strip to run wide open is nothing new. After World...
Rendered Perfection: The Insane Craigslist Van Gets Rendered Into An Pretty Awesome Looking Machine — Click Here To SEE!
Back on May 24th we showed you the below photo of this insane 1978 GMC van that is for sale on Craigslist. There were a fair amount of BS readers and commenters who saw some potential in the machine...
BangShift Question of The Day: What Is The Most Annoying Automotive Debate?
I spent the weekend announcing at the 2013 Chevy High Performance Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia. One night over an adult beverages or two a bunch of us automotive writers were...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: “Cannon Ball Run” The Theme Song With Opening Scenes
This is the Mad Matt Graves Edition of the Daily Tune Up, because while Matt was expertly honing his craft as the Marketing Guru at American Power Train last week he was also looking at our Stroker...
Video: Bill Elliot’s #94 McDonald’s NASCAR Cup Car On The Chassis Dyno
We never expected to see actual footage of a Cup Car on the chassis dyno, but here it is! This is Bill Eliott’s #94 McDonald’s car that we believe ran in the 2000 season. It makes some...
BangShift Video: A NASCAR RP7 Running On The Dyno At Westech For Lucas Oil Testing
We get to see all kinds of fun stuff run, but sometimes we are not allowed to show it to you. This time we were thanks to Lucas Oil and their strenuous oil testing program. This RP7 has been run a...
Video: The Best Of 2012 – The NASCAR Crashes You Just Can’t Miss
Earlier we showed you the best of 2013 so far, but that’s not a complete year worth of crashes to compare. This however is the best from 2012, including some incredibly huge ones that drivers...
Video: How Hendrick Racing Decides Who Gets Which Engine Come Race Day
We’ve always wondered how a multi-car team decides who gets which engine for a particular race. Do they duke it out SUMO style? Do they foot race across the parking lot? On tricycles? Drinking...
