Test Your Gearhead Knowledge – The Answer To The Last Question and A New Challenge!
Last week I told you about my stop by Custom Auto Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts and challenged you, the vast readership of BangShift to identify an interesting block and cylinder head that were...
Gallery: Spooktacular Cruise’n Classic Car Show – Whitman, MA
One of the local shows I like to hit with the kids each year is the Spooktacular Cruise’n Classic Car Show which is held in the small burg of Whitman, Massachusetts each fall. The kids love it...
Show Gallery: AACA Eastern Division National Fall Meet Hershey, Pennsylvania
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – In the Northeastern quadrant of the country at this time of the year, if you mention the word “Hershey” in a crowd of car guys, the immediate retort will...
SUNDAY! FREE Live Streaming Video of TheThrowdown in T-Town – Bad Ass Doorslammers!
SATURDAY’S ACTION HAS BEEN SUSPENDED DUE TO RAIN, BUT WE WILL BE LIVE AGAIN SUNDAY MORNING AT 10AM. Pro Mods, Outlaw 10.5, and Outlaw Doorslammers will be running first thing for their final...
Norm Grabowski, Legendary Hot Rodder and Creator of the T-Bucket Has Died
Norm Grabowski, the man who literally invented the T-Bucket with his famous “Kookie Kar” has passed away. Grabowski’s creation launched hundreds of thousands of copies and even...
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE IHRA WORLD FINALS LIVE AND FREE FROM MEMPHIS!
Mark Walter, our pal and fellow live streaming master is at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals at Memphis International Raceway. Mark is there streaming the race live and in living color....
Hilarious Video: Kid Fails Driving Test Five Times in One Day
Yes, this video is old and has been viewed nearly two million times, but we had to watch it three times just to hear everything because we were laughing so hard. This is a hidden camera deal and the...
New Product: American Powertrain’s Hydramax Full Hydraulic Clutch Conversion For Fox Bodies
If you’ve got a stick shift Fox-bodied Mustang, a couple things are inevitable. The first is that you’ll probably destroy a T5 at some point in your life and the second is that...
Video: A Wacky Chevy Truck Ad From 1972 – Watch the Dummy!
New car television commercials suck universally. There’s the once-every-couple-year gem like Chrysler’s “Man’s Last Stand” Charger ad, but even that one pales in...
Dyno Video: A 1,000hp Naturally Aspirated LSx Rip Saw From The School of Auto Machinists – Awesome
It is weird that we live in an era when you can be cruising YouTube and see so many videos of 1,000-2,000hp turbocharged engines that it gets boring. That’s why we almost skipped over this...
eBay Find: A Dead Nuts Awesome KITT Replica With Two Issues – The Price and The Location
There’s nary a BangShifter among us who didn’t love them some hot KITT action during the 1980s. Sure, David Hasseelhoff was the headline talent, but it was the Trans-Am he drove that...
What Would You Build? Big or Bigger? We Keep Drooling Over The RHS LS Aluminum Race Block
We have several engine builds that are about to start here at BangShift, and they will range from 400+ to over 1000 horsepower, but every time we talk engines we can’t seem to get the super...
New Cars: The 2013 Ford Escape – We Drive It…and It Drives Itself!
Recently I was invited by the fine people at Ford to spend a morning checking out, driving, and climbing over the all new 2013 Ford Escape. If you’re wondering what I’d be interested in...
