BangShift Daily Tune Up: Expressway To Your Heart – The Soul Survivors (1967)
After a couple days of rock and roll we thought it was time to throw some good old fashioned soul music back into the mix for today’s Daily Tune Up. Our selection today is the Soul Survivors...
LIVE TONIGHT! POWERSHIFT WITH CHAD AND BRIAN! OUR WEEKLY VIDEO SHOW THAT COVERS ALL THING BANGSHIFT!
Thursday again, already?! You betcha and that means tonight at 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern we’ll be live with our latest installment of Powershift, the live weekly show starring BangShift’s...
Drag Gallery: Liam Garrity’s Retro-Cool Images From The 2013 March Meet
(Photos by Liam Garrity) – BangShift photo contributor Liam Garrity was shooting photos like a mad man at the March Meet. He spent some time putting the artistic touches on them that he digs...
Insane Wreckage Video: Two Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Truck Get Into a Dog Fight And Both Lose!
We’ve showed you some off the wall crashes from the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series before but this is the capper. Racers Casey Currie amd RJ Anderson get into one another while flying through...
Order Up! Ford Racing Opens Order Window For 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jets – Factory Drag Goodness!
The 2014 Cobra Jets can now be ordered as per the announcement from Ford Racing. We were hoping to see a turbocharged option for 2014 but it doesn’t seem like it is in the cards although a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Closest Racing Facility To You And Do You Support It?
The earlier item we ran with the cool old drag racing video from Missouri and Iowa in the late 1960s featured two tracks that are currently dead and gone. It got us to thinking about our local...
Vintage Drag Video: Gassers, Door Slammers, Altereds, Dragsters And More From The Late 1960s In Missouri and Iowa
Old drag strip home movies are good for the soul, we’re convinced of that. This nearly 12-minute clip that was originally made by Carl and Char Hirst back in the late 1960s at Mid America...
Racing Junk Find: A Road Racing M3 Packing A FAST And Holley Equipped Stroker LS6 Engine! Do Want!
We’re not going to lie, BMW M3s are always sitting somewhere on our “want” list. Anyone who wants to make claims as to how the BMW M3 isn’t awesome to drive can suck it,...
Cruise Gallery: The Fort Oglethorpe Cruise In – Georgia
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – On his way home from Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip’s first Heads Up race of the season, Tommy Lee Byrd stopped by the Fort Oglethorpe (Georgia) Cruise...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Panama – Van Halen (1984)
Lots of people think that Van Halen’s 1984 hit (off of the album 1984) is about a country. Those people are wrong! Panama is a car song, believe it or now. David Lee Roth said that he saw a car...
Hot Rod Magazine Homecoming Car Show This Weekend! BE THERE! 300+ Former Cover and Feature Cars On Display At Pomona!
This weekend is the Hot Rod Homecoming Car Show at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California. Saying just that is selling it way short. The Homecoming is the greatest gathering of former feature and...
Rare Clone: A Perfect Recreation Of Drag Racing’s Ultimate Misfit Nova
While rolling around the pits during the 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion in Bowling Green last summer something strange caught my eye. It actually caught my entire body as I executed a full...
Show Gallery: The 2013 World of Wheels – Omaha, Nebraska
(Photos by Jay Oviatt) – BangShifter did last weekend what I plan to do this weekend, which is to attend the local “World of Wheels” indoor car show. The same company that puts on...
