Snake and Mongoose Biopic To Be made – Lead Actors Chosen to Fill Roles of Prudhomme and McEwen
There are a bunch of cool racing movies that are in the production pipe coming from Hollywood. Between the move about Caswell, the James Hunt picture, and the 1966 24 Hours of LeMans based Go Like...
Watch Denver Schutz’s High Speed March Meet Wall-Banger From the Top End – Wild Footage!
Denver Schutz’s high speed encounter with the wall at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield during the March Meet sure was scary. We ran a killer sequence of photos from the incident here on the blog,...
Cool New Tool From TCI: Adapter Converts Most Normal Floor Jacks Into Transmission Jacks
We’re admittedly clumsy. This normally translates itself into minor bloodshed in the shop or worse than that broken or mangled stuff. Have pulled and swapped more than a few transmissions in...
Caption These Photos: Scrub-a-dub-dub A Sprint Car in the Tub
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re thinking about renaming our Texas based photographer Charles Wickam “ironman” after hearing his story of a 17-hour BangShifty Saturday. Over...
Chad Head Named Winner of March Meet After Boychuck Disqualified – Top Fuel Finalist Rick White Also DQ’d
In shocking news that hit the wires late last week, Tim Boychuck who was awarded the Wally for winning the March Meet was disqualified after his fuel pump was found to be outside of the class specs....
Chris Holbook Becomes First Entry For ADRL SuperCar Showdown Class – Will Campaign Cobra Jet
We thought that some heavies would enter the ADRL SuperCar Showdown but we didn’t know that one would be the first man to officially enter the class! Michigander Chris Holbrook, a former IHRA...
Car Feature Re-Run: An Original-Owner 1987 Buick GNX
Gary and Pam Beineke have a stable of awesome cars. We invaded their privacy to shoot and video several cars a couple of years ago and we featured those cars a while back. Most of the cars in their...
Ford Announces Base Pricing of 2013 GT500 – Shockingly Matches the Camaro ZL1
Ford has released the base pricing for the 2013 Mustang GT500 and the 200+ mph, 650hp beast will available to the general public for the base price of $54,995. While that is not chump change,...
Registration is Open for Hot Rod Drag Week 2012!
Ok boys and girls it is time to put your money where your mouth is and get yourselves signed up for Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week Version 2012. We’ve announced the tracks (this year the...
Follow Our Mission to Bring Project Buford T Justice Home LIVE!
By the time you read this, the fun mission to drive our new 1987 Caprice 9C1 project car from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts will have begun. We’re cruising down to PA today, collecting up the...
Event Gallery: Hotchkis Sport Suspension Mopar Open House 2012
(Photos by Elana Scherr) – Hotchkis makes great handling parts for all kinds of classic and modern muscle cars and every year they host some fun events at their California HQ. They’ve...
Event Gallery: More Photos From the 2012 Run to the Coast
(Photos by Elana Scherr) – The rave reviews and fun stories continue to come in from last weekend’s “Run to the Coast” pro touring event, held at the old El Toro Air Base in...
Cool Video: Talking AFCO Shocks at the Drags
There’s a reason that AFCO shocks are the choice of virtually every seriously fast small tire car in the country. They are the most tuneable, tweakable, and tailored pieces on the market. In...
eBay Find: A 1964 Mack B81 Tandem Axle Tractor – Old Big Rig Perfection
We’ve come across some cool old Mack Model B trucks over the years here on BangShift but this one is probably the biggest and nicest one we have found yet. This large and lovely beast is a 1964...
