Video: Watch Leon Smith And His Hot Rod Kenworth Take On The Toughest Canadian Big Rig Drag Racers Yet!
We can’t get enough of the balls out Canadian big rig drag racing scene, especially when it involves our favorite participant Leon Smith and his hot rod Kenworth dump truck. Sure it seems a wee...
Dead Guys, Dead Brands, Legendary Cars, and Coolness From The 1964 NY International Auto Show Program
Like today, companies and car manufacturers employed many different techniques in their ads back in the 1960s. The collection below, culled like so many others before it from the 1964 NY...
Gallery: Over 100 Wheelstand Photos From the 2012 NHRA Dutch Classic!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We will make one guarantee with this gallery. In every single one of the 116 photos, at least one of the cars in the frame is hiking the front end up to the sky. Joe...
Cool Video: A Chronicle of the Amazing Lutz/Larson Drag Week 2012 Battle!
There were many, many highlights from Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2012 but the epic prize fight between Jeff Lutz and Larry Larson was certainly the one that the most eyeballs were focused on. During...
Steve Matusek Wins Pro Mod at the Throwdown at T-Town In The Aeromotive Turbo Mustang!
We wanted to send a quick note of congratulations to Steve Matusek, Chuck Samuel, Larry Larson, and the rest of the crew at Aeromotive for their big win at the 2012 Throwdown at T-Town. Steve wheeled...
Craigslist Find: An Absolute Train Wreck Of A Third Gen Camaro
The third-gen Camaro is still in that historical hot rodding limbo area where people bag on them regularly. For a while, it was late second gen cars that got all that hate, but people seem to dig...
Video: Watch Roger Sterling’s Massive Heavy Street Wreck At the Shakedown at E-Town
There was lots of racing around the country this weekend, especially on the drag front. There was the Throwdown at T-Town where we live broadcasted, there was the Dutch Classic in Pennsylvania, and...
Roadside Find: A Subaru Dually — You Read That Correctly, A Subaru Dually!
BangShift reader Erik Andersson sent us what could be the weirdest, funniest, most ingenious, and just flat out most quizzical roadside find in the history of this website. Erik was at work, making a...
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....
