Bonus Grand National Roadster Show Gallery: Customs, Trucks, Lowriders, and More Outside The Halls
Even though we had crappy weather here in Southern California for this past weekend’s Grand National Roadster Show, it was still THE place to be. And despite the rain a lot of folks still drove...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Have You Ever Had A Shop Disaster? Are You Prepared In Case Something Happens?
Yesterday’s coverage of the explosion and destruction at Bill Kuhlmann’s race shop got me to thinking about shop safety and preparedness. I work on my junk outside for better or for...
Drag Video: Watch An Insane Naturally Aspirated SRT8 Jeep Grand Cherokee Pull Huge Wheelies and Run Deep Into The 10s
Well this is totally nuts. Eric Koll is the owner and driver of this wild Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8. As best we can tell, the machine is powered by a stroker modern hemi that displaces somewhere...
Gallery: The 2013 North American International Auto Show Photo Highlight Reel By Ken Cox
(Photos by Ken Cox) – While we were running around like lunatics at the Grand National Roadster Show with an army of photo contributors and friends, BangShift Detroit correspondent Ken Cox was...
Sad News: Super Stock Hemi Hero Ken Montgomery Passes – Campaigned The Famed “Triple Nickle” For Almost 50 Years!
One of the great competitors in the history of sportsman drag racing has died. Ken Montgomery who purchased his 1965 Plymouth Belvedere A990 Hemi race car new from a dealer in 1965 and went on to...
eBay Find: EJ Potter’s Last V8 Bike – Widowmaker #7 – Awesome Drag Racing History You Can Ride!
I’ve never hidden my unabashed admiration for EJ Potter. He was one of the coolest guys I ever got the speak to for interviews and general conversation and I believe that he had one of the...
Video:Doorslammer Legend Bill Kuhlmann’s Shop Explodes – No One Hurt – Shop And All Cars Inside Destroyed
(Photo Credit: Brook Hasch) – Bad news out of Missouri today as the workshop of famed drag racer “200mph” Bill Kuhlmann was reduced to rubble after a massive explosion leveled the...
Basic Brake Tech With Baer: How To Bleed Your Brakes
There are certain things that all hot rodders and gearheads just HAVE to know how to do, and how to do right. Bleeding brakes is one of those things. Unless you are rolling around in an ancient Model...
The Suede Palace: The Cool Kids, Traditional, Corner Of The Grand National Roadster Show
If the measure of being cool is that other folks want to be cool like you, then Axel’s Suede Palace at the Grand National Roadster Show is where the cool kids hang out. And don’t for a...
Muscle Cars, Street Machines, Fat Fenders, & More: Bob Chiluk Photo Gallery From The Grand National Roadster Show
Bob Chiluk, and his father in law, are die hard gearheads. And thankfully Bob also knows how to shoot really nice photos! So when Bob said that they were coming out from Chicago to get away from the...
Nitro Video: Watch A Top Fuel Bike Fire Up And Rip Off A Burnout….INSIDE THE SHOP!
I’ve often thought that the men and women who race Top Fuel motorcycles are all part of a small group of escaped mental patients that somehow fell into the same hobby. Seriously, to see one of...
Nothin’ But Customs: The Lead Based Hot Rods Of The 2013 Grand National Roadster Show
Lead based paint may suck, but lead based hot rods, aka Customs, rule. We seriously dig them around here, whether they are full tilt chopped, channeled, sectioned, and pinched monsters or just a...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: I Want To Be Your Driver – Chuck Berry (1965-ish)
Chuck Berry has a ton of great songs centered around cars in his canon of music. From “Ridin’ Around In My Automobile” to that wild chick “Maybellene” he knew how to jam...
