BIG NEWS: All New COPO Camaros Will Be Holley Equipped! HP EFI Is Standard
We are huge fans of the new COPO Camaros around here, although I am still pissed that one of the COPO owners has not let me make some passes in one, so we were super excited when we got the press...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Is The Worst (Most Embarrassing?) Part To Ever Fall Off Your Car?
After two days of video showing driveline parts falling out of, or being ejected from, race cars, it seemed appropriate to have our BangShift Question of the Day be about parts falling off your car....
Project Fat Lane Update: The Tin Is Going In and Go Fast Parts Arrive
Project Fat Lane, the 2,500hp Ford Fairlane drag car being built at Tube Chassis Designz in Hanson, Massachusetts is on the move yet again. Actually it is still on the chassis table, but the project...
Here’s The Answer To Our “What The Hell Is This” Challenge From Yesterday – Tons of Info and Photos!
Yesterday we showed you photos of an odd looking like trucklet thing. Well, the owner of that odd looking little trucklet thing is one Brian Earp and Brian was kind enough to send us a ton of info,...
Photo Highlight Reel: Bob Chiluk’s Favorite Photos From 2012 – Top Fuel, Pro Touring, and Barn Finds!
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – My interest in cars and anything with wheels always presided over my interest in photography. But those grade school days reading Hot Rod magazine and seeing...
BS Daily Tune Up: Crawlin’ From The Wreckage – Dave Edmunds (1979)
Dave Edmunds’ 1979 ode to automobile wreckage didn’t make the charts in the United States, but it did manage to climb to the number 59 spot on the British charts that year. Some claim...
eBay Find:A 1974 Vega Racer With A Full Boogie Suspension, Built Up Cosworth Motor, And History!
Sweet mother of cone crushing, apex clipping, slaloming, coolness. This 1974 Vega is set up to rip, has a totally documented and cool racing history, a Cosworth engine that was run at Bonneville on...
10% OFF Everything Sale At American Powertrain Through Jan 12th!
So many of you BangShifters bought stuff from American Powertrain during their two end of the year sales in 2012 that they decided they might as well do another one. And you guys are the ones that...
Gallery: Burnouts! A Collection of Cool Burnout Photos From The BS Photo Archive
(Photos by BS staff and contributors) – Boiling the bolognas, frying the hides, laying patch, doing a smoke show, etc. The practice of roiling your rear tires goes by many different names and...
Question of the Day: Do You Know What The Hell This Thing Is?
BS reader Brian Earp recently sent us an email with a photo of his truck and thought it would be fun to try to stump the rest of you out there in reader land as to what in the hell it is. He gave us...
BS Photo Highlight Reel: Scott Liggett’s Favorite Photos of 2012 – Road trips, Wrenching, and the Drags!
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Brian texted me just before Christmas to send in some of my favorite pics that I took over the last year, I was a bit worried because I didn’t...
BS Daily Tune Up: Beep Beep – The Playmates (1958)
Life was pretty darned good for The Playmates in 1958. The group has just signed on to Roulette records, cracked into the Top 40 with two tunes off of their first album. Adding to that was the...
Gallery: The Cordova Dragway Park 2013 Hangover Nationals – Drag Strip Action At 14-Degrees! BRRR!
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Cordova Dragway Park in Cordova, Illinois again hosted the Hangover Nationals. Held on New Years Day for the past 14 years, they plow snow off the track,...
Video Bonanza: U-Haul trucks Getting Thrashed
We’ll admit right off the bat that we have beaten down a U-Haul truck or two in our day. We got a V10 powered model high sided on a pile of tires one time. It’s kind of a long story, but...
