Videos Of Win: A Twin Turbo Olds 455 Cutlass Sleeper Runs 10s – Plus A Crafty Home Made Solution To Modifying Pistons At Home For Full Floating Wrist Pins!
You know that above pretty much all else around here, we love sleepers. When said sleepers are home built using good old fashioned hot rod ingenuity they get our full attention and admiration, like...
Drag Action Gallery: Fast Door Slammers At Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip! Big Tire and Small Tire Fun!
(Words and Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Bangshift contributor Tommy Lee Byrd hit it hard this weekend and covered a cool Heads Up race at Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip in Ringgold, Georgia. The...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Fast Car – Hanoi Rocks (1986)
We’ve got a bunch of readers that have suggested Hanoi Rocks tunes to us for use in the BS Daily Tune up, so today we’re finally going to highlight one. The tune is called Fast Car and it...
MSD’s Atomic EFI LS System Wins Innovation Award At The 2013 Hot Rod And Restoration Trade Show
The news is certainly out about MSD’s cool Atomic LS EFI system that removed lots of headaches and wiring from the job of swapping an LS engine into whatever application you can dream up. Since...
Aussie Road Trip Gallery: The Roadside Finds On A Long Trip Across Oz
(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – We’ve been showing you cool photos from the Top Gear Festival in Australia recently and those photos came from Darryl Danies who lives down there. Darryl went...
Event Coverage: Trucks, Rat Rods, Traditionals, and Street Rods From Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals
Once again Charles Wickam delivered. Great photos, of great trucks and street rods, for you to enjoy. Last weekend’s Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals were HUGE, and the stuff that was there...
Sideways, With Rodney Prouty: Being The Underdog May Be A Handicap, But Rodney Doesn’t Show It
Sideways, with Rodney Prouty, shows the trials and tribulations of a regular working stiff who built his car on his budget, drives it every day, and races it as often as he can. Oh and did I mention...
Throwback Video: Chad Taunts Death Shooting Killer Drift Footage With Team Scion And Death Runs Away Scared
Way back in 2009 I was asked by John Naderi of Streefire to come out and shoot some video at Irwindale for a Scion Drift Team Test session. Turns out they were giving rides to some Rockstar Energy...
Event Coverage: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, Customs, and More From Goodguys Lonestar Nationals
Thanks to our man on the street, Charles Wickam, we have great photos for you from the Goodguys Spring Lonestar Nationals at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth Texas. Charles ran his ass off snapping...
eBay Find: A Chopped And Hemi Powered 1933 Dodge Hot Rod That Is Period Perfection
Lots of times we find weirdo stuff on eBay and make fun of it, but today that is absolutely not the case. This 1933 Dodge hot rod is so good in so many ways it makes us tear up with joy. The body was...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Hot Rod Heart – John Fogerty (1997)
John Fogerty rose to fame as the front man of the legendary band Creedence Clearwater Revival and has gone on to have a great solo career. There was all kinds of crazy legal stuff that went on...
Project Buford T Justice Update: Where Has Our 9C1 Caprice Been Hiding?
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – So it has been a while since you’ve seen anything with respect to our much beloved project Buford T Justice Caprice. What the Hell, right? We can assure you...
Screaming V8 Video: A NASCAR V8 + A Scion FR-S = A Toyota That Does Not Suck
We typically do not sing the praises of Toyota here at BangShift…quite the opposite really, but when something cool gets built we’re all over highlighting it. In this case, that cool...
