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...
Evil Golf Cart Video: Sick N Twisted Designs Drag Race Electric Golf Cart
Saturday night we went to Irwindale for a little test and tune session with our boys Bill Fowler and Scott Clark, and not only were we impressed with Bill’s 1000hp PUMP GAS, NATURALLY...
Question of the Day: Now We’ve Seen It All! Rent An Excavator For Fun? Would You Do It?
I’m pretty sure this counts as a “Now I’ve seen everything” moment. I know that a lot of cool stuff comes up as Groupons, but this one takes the cake on weird. I guess the...
The Top 11: Greatest Wheelstanders
When Chad and I settled on making a list of the top 11 Wheelstanders we knew it was an impossible task and that we’d get roasted for leaving off some hella cool cars. We had a list of nearly 30...
Watch A Massive Buick Wheelstand Result In A Dead Buick (Driver OK) — Two Videos!
BangShift reader Nick Lingua sent us a tip on this video from last weekend’s “Night of Fire” at Cedar Falls Raceway in Iowa. The event is a totally bitchin’ match race that...
