Watch A 3,000hp Ice Dragster Run 170-Mph In 1,000ft From A Standing Start!
At base, most gearheads are lunatics just trying to get out. Most of us are bound by our own lack of skill or resources, but there are those among us unhindered by such trivial worries. Those are the...
Click here to Watch PowerShift – Our Weekly LIVE SHOW Will Be On At 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern – Tune In!!
We’ve got a killer show lined up for this week’s edition of PowerShift, BangShift’s LIVE weekly adventure starring Chad and Brian. Chad will be on location from a cool shop, Lohnes...
Rocket Racing Wheels New Catalog Sneak Peek and A Look At Their Late Model Designs
Our pals at Rocket Racing Wheels have been working hard on a new catalog and they recently leaked out a photo of the cover and it looks great. The photo also served as the perfect reminder for us to...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Personal Definition Of A “Big” Car?
The one thing I get a lot when talking about the Buford T Justice project is people talking about how big the car is. The words tank, boat, barge, etc get thrown around near the beginning of every...
Wild Videos: The High Flying Antics Of Icelandic Formula Off Road Racers – Big Power and Big Air!
Every time I watch or post video from Icelandic Formula Off Road events, I lament the fact that I’ve never seen one of these gatherings in person yet. I added the yet because I am going to get...
Craigslist Find: A 1942 Dodge School Bus Mounted On A Deuce And A Half Frame With Chrysler Power
This completely awesome Craigslist find was just one day late for yesterday’s question of the day that asked you what vehicle you’d most want to drive in a Max Mad or zombie invasion type...
Video Bonanza: Hoods Flying Up and Off – Or – Where Are The Effing Hood Pins?
If you’ve spent any time at a race track, or just screwing around with cars in general you’ve either forgotten to install the hood pins in a car, forgotten to completely latch the hood,...
Watch Aussie Mark Sheehan’s Top Fuel Dragster Erupt In Flames On Start Up – Wild Nitro Fire!
This is some wild video! Top Fuel racer Mark Sheehan and his tuner, American John Smith were lucky to escape unscathed from this scary fire down in Australia. Sheehan was sitting in his car and Smith...
Watch The World’s Quickest And Fastest Street Legal Hearse Run 10.70s and Fry The Tires For Miles!
This video serves as more proof that horsepower can cure all ills. The guys at AMS Performance in Wisconsin took a mid 1990s Chevy Caprice hearse built by Superior Coachworks and stuffed it full of...
Barnstormin’: Creativity For The Sheeple And The Lost Art Of Making Something From Scratch
Yesterday, Chad went into full berserker mode over the Paul Harvey voiced Ram “farmer” commercial during the Super Bowl. I think I shared the same reaction as many other people by being...
Liberation Of A Sanctioning Body: How The IHRA Was Saved, Who Saved It, And What The Future Holds
Not a shot was fired, no blood was shed, and there were no adoring crowds lining the sidewalks when Kenneth Feld, leader of the family owned Feld Entertainment empire agreed to sell the International...
BangShift Question of the Day: If The World Devolved Into A Mad Max Situation What (Real) Vehicle Would You Be Driving?
Yesterday’s item about the mammoth Kenworth 963 oil field truck got a bunch of commenters mentioning that it seems like a good choice for a zombie apocalypse or a Mad Max dystopia type of...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Pontiac Blues – Sonny Boy Williamson And The Animals (Recorded 1960s)
While the song Rocket 88 gets roundly awarded the praise for being the first rock and roll song about cars, there was automotive themed music long before the late 1940s when Rocket 88 was recorded....
BangShift Quick Tech Tip: Chassis and Body Grounds. They Are Your Electrical Friends.
Our pal Todd Ryden, sent us this quick tech tip last week, along with a great new kit from Painless Performance that gives you all the grounds and fasteners you need to make sure your car or truck...
