Question of the Day: What is the Most Pointless Automotive Competition?
After that flaming burnout contest video, I got to thinking about all the different automotive type competitions out there. Outside of the normal racing type stuff, there are lots of pointless...
Watch a Mustang’s Burnout Contest Performance Come to a Flaming End!
We got tipped off to this video by the guys at ReplayXD cameras. A ReplayXD was mounted at ankle height during the burnout contest at the NMCA Nationals in Commerce, Georgia. The camera captured a...
Gallery: Vintage Parts From the Spring Carlisle Swap Meet 2012
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Having shown you a couple of great galleries of the cars in the huge corral at the 2012 Spring Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet, we’re turning our guns to the...
Watch A Nelson Racing Engines Custom, Billet, Twin Turbo Hemi Makes 2500hp on the Dyno!
We have featured some cool engines and cars from the shop of Tom Nelson, but this one may take the cake. Using a CAD designed, billet aluminum block, a set of his “mirror image” twin...
Gearhead Guys You Should Know: Art Arfons
Let’s get one thing straight before we go any further: Art Arfons was a genuine American hero, and not just in the theater of speed. Arfons was a WWII vet and saw combat during the invasion of...
Watch the World’s Fastest Hybrid Big Rig Set Land Speed Records
While we think that hybrid cars are a complete and utter farce that ultimately do more harm than good for the world, the idea of a hybrid big rig makes a lot of sense to us. Easing the fuel costs of...
WTF eBay Find: A Pro Street 1992 Geo Tracker – Death Trap POS Alert
It has been a while since we found a legit death trap on eBay but we’re bringing the high heat on that front today. This is a pro street 1992 Geo Tracker, which is kind of lame and weird on its...
Holley Sixty Fuel Pumps in Sixty Days Sweepstakes IS Rolling! Participate NOW! – Multiple BangShifters Have Already Won Stuff!
Spring is just around the corner, which means it is time to get your junk ready for the road, and Holley is getting ready to kick off a sweepstakes to help you do just that. The “60 Pumps in 60...
Show Gallery: The Aussie Willys Nationals
(Photos by Darryl Daniels) – The iconic Willys does not just have that status in America, as this gallery proves. Aussie BangShift reader Darryl Daniels attended the show and sent us about 50...
Gallery: Spring Carlisle Classic Car Swap Meet and Corral – The Cars- Gallery 2
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Yesterday we brought you the first of two galleries showing the highlights of the massive car corral at the 2012 Carlisle Spring Classic Car Swap Meet and Corral....
Watch Another Violent Nitrous Explosion – This One From Orlando Speed World
The last violent nitrous explosion we brought you happened in Abu Dhabi, this one happened in Orlando, Florida. As you will see, a very clean looking fourth generation Camaro drag car is sitting on...
Gallery: Hundreds of Photos From the Carlisle Spring Swap Meet 2012 Car Corral – Cars, Trucks, Hot Rods
(Photos by Doug Garrison) – Pennsylvanian photo contributor Doug Garrison (and also the guy we bought Buford from!) spent days on end at the 2012 Spring Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet and...
Heartbreaking News: EJ Potter, “The Michigan Madman” is Dead
Elon Jack Potter, better known to hot rodders the world over as “EJ” or “The Michigan Madman” died on April 30th, 2012 in Ithaca, Michigan. EJ was 71 years old. Normally I...
