BangShift Question of the Day: Who is the biggest Villain in Racing History?
After following up on the Evan Knoll story yesterday and getting to thinking about”bad guys” in the world of racing, we started coming up with a pretty decent mental list. From devious...
Evan Knoll Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges – Faces 70 Years in Prison, 100-Million in Fines
Evan Knoll, the one time drag racing magnate plead guilty today to Federal charges that have the potential to send him to prison for 70 years and cost him upwards of $100-million in fines. That sound...
Buford T Justice 9C1 Update: The Parts From Hotchkis, Cragar, AFCO, and Mickey Thompson
Last week we put Buford T Justice, our project 1987 Caprice 9C1 through the last set of paces on the stock suspension and tires. The car performed as we pretty much thought it would, wallowing some,...
Watch An Opel Speedster Wreck Hard on the Nurburgring in Germany – Video
Germany’s Nurburgring has been in the news lately because poor management and awful financial decisions have left it nearly bankrupt. People from all corners of the world have been freaking out...
Super Bitchin Mopar Video: The 1971 Challenger “Goodguys Missile” 2012 Giveaway Car
Mopar fans rejoice, the Goodguys 2012 Giveaway car is an artistic interpretation of the venerable Motown Missile of the 1970’s. Our friends at Route2Media put this great video together showing...
Racing Junk Find: A Rick Jones Built 1968 Barracuda With Modern Pro Stock Power!
Well this is full on bad-assery to the highest order here! A classic 1968 Barracuda stuffed with a 500ci modern Pro Stock engine and all kinds of full boogie chassis work from Rick Jones Race Cars in...
Check This Out: FAST LSX 92mm Intake Manifold Is Now Available In Black!
We are fans of black engines, even our Chevy engines are always black or cast coat grey. And now the guys at FAST have helped us out by making black the new color of choice for LS engines with their...
Watch the BangShift Sticker Equipped Elephant Hunter Scout Gasser Break the Wheelie Bars and Go Vertical at Byron Dragway!
Dave Pelissier is a BangShifter with a hella cool machine. His 1963 International Scout has graced our pages before. Originally built as a street machine in western Canada with a Hemi in the front,...
Check Out Video of a Bitchin’ 1961 Ford Shop Truck – Striping and Stance Perfection
Shop trucks have certainly become their own dedicated genre of the hobby over the last several years. Hell, half of the reason I bought the old C50 wrecker that’s currently in my stable is...
BangShift Slap Fight: Do Pro Street Cars Require Stupid Power to Be Cool Or is Mild OK? Brian and Chad Debate!
(Editor’s note: Welcome to Slap Fight! We’re going to try and make this a weekly part of the BangShift blog lineup. Long story short, this is a space where Chad and Brian take the gearhead...
The BangShift Spotter’s Guide to Bitchin’ Old Australian Muscle Cars and ‘Utes
(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – It is a minor coincidence that we’re heavy on content based in Oz today. We were tipped off to the cool old Aussie drag racing videos by an Australian reader...
Video Bonanza: Awesome 8mm Films of 1960s Australian Drag Racing – Bitchin’ Hot Rods and Drag Machines!
One of the things that I always love to learn about is the history of drag racing in places outside of the USA. The reason that it fascinates me is because while the sport itself was exported from...
Get Your Stop On: Baer Brakes New Catalog Makes Stopping Your Hot Rod Even Easier
Baer Brakes may be new to the BangShift family of sponsors but they are arguably the biggest name in performance braking and their newest catalog certainly reinforces why. If you thought that Baer...
eBay Find: A Super Clean and Totally Awesome 1974 Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty
As the domestic high performance car was all but dead on the operating table after a gas crisis and draconian legislation in the early 1970s, one small glimmer of light managed to escape the clutches...
