SHOCKER: KURT BUSCH SIGNS WITH PHOENIX RACING FOR 2012 – PLANS TO HAVE FUN RACING WITH SMALL TEAM
I almost did the proverbial spit take when I read that Kurt Busch had decided to sign on with James Finch’s Phoenix Racing for the 2012 season. I would have bet the family claim on Busch...
DYNO VIDEO: A 598CI, 1014HP FORD BIG BLOCK!
Bill Fowler is an OG BangShifter and the owner of a very mean Mustang. Bill’s car is an interesting study as he regularly drag races it, auto crosses it, and cruises it on the street. It is a...
EBAY FIND: AN ORIGINAL 1928 FORD RACE CAR WITH A NEAT FRONTENAC CYLINDER HEAD CONVERSION
Old race cars are fascinating objects. By modern standards, this thing is slightly less evolved than your garden tractor, but in 1928 this racer may as well have been the bleeding edge of...
MILESTONE: FORD SELLS 100,000 ECOBOOST V6 POWERED TRUCKS IN 2011
It sure seems like Ford’s gamble on the twin turbo, V6 EcoBoost engine has paid off. The company crossed a major milestone yesterday with the installation of the 100,000th example of the engine...
Insane Wreckage: Car Sawed In Half By Palm Tree In High Speed Aussie Wreck
We were tipped off to an incredible and sad story from the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia. Two men were killed when their Holden Commodore struck a palm tree at what must have been an incredible...
Cool Old Video: AJ Foyt And Ray Harroun Apppear On A 1961 Game Show Together
It is a brutally slow news week around here but luckily while trolling the interwebs, we found a really cool video of 1961 Indy 500 winner AJ Foyt and 1911 Indy 500 winner Ray Harroun appearing on...
Government To Mustang Owners: You Are The Problem, Not The Transmission
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has been investigating issues with 2011 and 2012 Ford Mustangs equipped with manual transmissions. We’re not sure what got the...
What Is The Dumbest Automotive Related Thing You Have Ever Done?
Paying about a million bucks for some old coveralls, crashing a Lamborghini you just won, buying an awful shitbox of a car, getting stuck without help, etc. These are but a few of the stupid things...
Truck Driver Wins Lamborghini – Wrecks Car Hours Later
I’m burning the midnight oil here at BS East HQ because the news hotline keeps melting down with people doing dumb things. Guys buying old laundry for a million bucks, truck drivers crashing...
Stupid Cash: Steve Mcqueen Racing Suit From Le Mans Fetches Nearly One Million Bucks At Auction
Just when you hear how awful the economic condition of the world is and how we’re all broke, news like this comes out. Some rich lunatic paid a total of $984,000 for a movie prop racing suit...
Jeremy Mayfield Update: Bank Begins Foreclosure Proceedings On Mayfield’s 400- Acre Nc Property
Don’t look now but just when things appeared to have hit rock bottom for Jeremy Mayfield, someone showed up with a drilling rig. It is being reported by multiple sources that Mayfield’s...
Old GM Quietly Slips Under The Waves – Last Vestige Of Original General Motors Dissolved
In 2009 when the fate of the entire General Motors company hung in the balance, a new entity called, “New GM” was created. New GM got all of the company’s valuable assets and...
Driveway Tech: Patching Your Rotted Floors – A First Hand Account From A Welding Newbie
At some point or another, we all have to take the next step in our skill set while working on our junk heaps. It’s either that, or we continue paying others to do certain repairs and upgrades...
