Question of the Day: What is the Lamest Automotive Myth?
As car dudes and dudettes, we live and breathe this stuff. Sadly, we’re in the minority when it comes to the general population. The majority of people don’t have a freaking clue about...
RacingJunk Find: A Large by Huge by FAST 8-Second 1996 Impala
The zenith of the Chevy B-body was the 1996 Chevy Impala SS. With great looks, good grunt from an LT1 V8, four doors, and room for a small immigrant family in the trunk, they were the last of a breed...
Watch a Winged Sprint Car Pull a Massive Power Wheelie Down The Front Straight of a Dirt Track!
If you’ve never seen winged sprint cars in action, this video should get your juices flowing enough to start seeking out local race dates. The cars are dirt borne rockets that act like no other...
The Top 11 Greatest Automotive Sauces
We use a lot of automotive chemicals every day, and we refer to ’em all as sauce. Carb sauce, gear sauce, gasket sauce–whatever. By the time you’ve been through a few decades with...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Vince Piggins
Vince Piggins was a force to be reckoned with at GM. He was pals with Smokey Yunick, understood what the role of performance cars could be to the company, and was a genuine car guy in every since of...
Ken Block Releases New Version of Gymkhana Four – Way Better Than Original Now That Fluff Crap Is Gone!
Ken Block’s Gymkhana videos have all be entertaining to watch. The first couple were gritty and simply showed Block smoking all four tires off of his car and doing some awesome precision...
Jet Hot to Sponsor Autocross Competition at Chevy High Performance Nationals June 1-3
Proud BangShift sponsor Jet Hot has announced that they will be sponsoring the autocross events to be held at the upcoming Chevy High Performance Nationals at Atlanta Dragway in Commerce, Georgia....
Bitchin’ Cruise Gallery: The Sonic Drive-In Cruise – Morgantown, PA
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – The cruise season is going full bore all across the country now and Joe Grippo proved that even in PA car guys ad girls are out and about having fun. Joe recently...
Watch A Twin ProCharged Big Block Bust the Dyno at Steve Morris Racing Engines!
Steve Morris Racing Engines is known around the country for making stupid huge horsepower engines for drag race cars and lunatic fringe street machines. We first met Steve back in 2005 when he showed...
BangShifter Road Trip Coverage: The Car Craft Anti-Tour Experience of Randal Burns (w/Galleries!)
(Words and Photos by Randal Burns) – Some of you may have been following my Thunderbird drama in prep for the Car Craft Anti-Tour on the forums earlier this month. I was getting the car cleaned...
The Answer to Yesterday’s Mystery Flathead Photos!
Yesterday we showed you several photos of a totally awesome inline flathead engine that combined both modern supercharging and EFI technology with architecture of what is essentially an old tractor...
eBay Find: A 1960 Dodge Dart Seneca With a Turbocharged Slant Six and Four Speed Stick!
In the realm of bitchin’ and unique Mopars, this 1960 Dodge Dart Seneca coupe stands all by itself on an island of awesome. We saw this eBay ad posted on Facebook by BangShift reader Eric and...
Cool News: MSD Performance Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Certification – Validates High Quality Manufacturing Efforts
Fantastic news from our pals at MSD Performance as they have earned the vaunted ISO 9001:2008 Certification. This is important stuff for a manufacturing company because it means that their internal...
