BS Daily Tune-Up: Trophy Machine By The Rip Chords – Released 1964
The Southern California band known as the Rip Chords is known by most gearheads for their famous car jam Hey Little Cobra. The group cranked out a ton of great car songs during their heyday in the...
Best of BangShift 2012: The English Brothers With Their Jag and MG Drag Machines – Feature!
Few classes were weirder and wilder than the old NHRA Modified Sports Car ranks. The Modified Sports classes had their own rules which were similar to the gas classes and the resulting creations...
Craigslist Find: What Happens When A Geo Metro Mates With A Motorcycle In Wisconsin
BangShifter Kyle Odekirk must have been doing some late Christmas shopping on Craigslist or maybe figuring out how to spend his Christmas cash when he found this wild creation. What you are looking...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Dave Nutting’s Favorite Shots From 2012 – Racing, Shows, Thrashing, and More!
(Words and Photos by Dave Nutting) – 2012 was quite the year for me as a photographer in terms of new experiences. It is hard for me to believe, but I’ve only been shooting photos for these...
Tech Video: Holley Power Valves Explained
We ran across this simple video from Holley that shows the basics of Holley Power Valves and know that for some reason Power Valves seem to have a lot of voodoo surrounding them. There...
Video:Big Rig Burnout Video Counter Punch – A Working Mack Strikes Back Against The Aussies!
Chad’s video of the Bandag Bullet smoking tires is cute and all, but as he mentions in his blog item that truck is a specially built racing and tire frying machine. We’re not knocking it...
Burnout Video: This One May Be The Best Big Rig Burnout Ever
The Bandag Bullet is a 12 second big rig, which is super impressive, although I still think our own Thump Truck may be better just because it’s a 13 second fully functional and original weight...
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BANGSHIFT.COM!
Merry Christmas! Brian and I, along with all our families and BangShift.com sponsors, would like to wish all of our friends and readers a very Merry Christmas. While we are frying up turkey here on...
DOYOUSEE.ME Drag Racing Replays From Europe… All Through The Holidays
(Provided by EuroDragster) Because it has become a tradition on which people started to rely (the first question whether we would do a replay was asked at the second event in the season) we will...
FREE March Meet LIVE Replay 2012: BangShift.com’s Exclusive Broadcast From Famoso
Did you miss the March Meet this year? Watch it in it’s entirety right here through Christmas. It will conclude on Wednesday and then we’ll replay the 2012 Street Car Supernationals from...
BangShift Test Drive: The 2013 Ford Raptor – We Drag It, ‘Wheel It, and Jump It!
(Photos by Tom Phair, Kerri Lohnes, and the author) – The most commonly asked question we had during our time with the 2013 Ford SVT Raptor was, “Is that thing fun to drive?” The...
Car Guy Toys: RC Pulling Tractors Video! Brian Is Going To Lose His Mind!
As our regular readers well know, Brian is a complete freak for trucks and tractors, and I’ve been to truck and tractor pulls a few times. And as any gearhead knows, those machines are setup...
Caption This Photo: How To Use A Racepak On Your Weber!
Tim Anderson, the dude who runs Racepak, has become a pretty good friend of ours around here and is a diehard BangShifter. On occasion he sends pictures, a cool video or whatever and yesterday he...
Rocket Racing Wheels On The Cover Of Overkill Magazine
Rocket Racing Wheels is in the news again! This time it’s on the cover of Overkill Magazine’s Nashty Habit cover car. Featuring Rocket Launcher and Rocket Strike wheels front and rear...
