Breaking news: Irwindale drag strip reopening confirmed – exact date of reopen not known yet
Some breaking news this afternoon that confirms the drag strip at Irwindale Speedway will be reopening. The guys on the Ultimate Air Cooled message board have gotten confirmation that their Bug-In...
Watch a Stock Car Driver Plow Into Another Crashed Competitor and then Burst Into Flames
This has to be every stock car racer’s nightmare. Racing at night, powering off of a corner and then looking up to see a competitor dead in the water, sitting right in your line. With nowhere...
MSD’s Atomic EFI Incredibly Popular – Company Adds Additional Shifts to Up Production and Meet Demand
As soon as we laid eyes on MSD Ignition’s Atomic EFI system at the 2011 SEMA show, we knew that the boys in El Paso had just pulled the pin on a grenade packed with awesome. Apparently, lots of...
Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Willys FC Trucks
(Editor’s note: Since seeing those awesome renderings from Chrysler, I have been thinking about old Forward Control trucks. Here’s some old press photos from 1957 of them in action!) A...
Chrysler Reveals Sketches of Awesome Jeep Concept Trucks to Be Unveiled at Moab on Easter Jeep Safari
For several years, the teams at MOPAR and Jeep have teamed up to build some really kick ass concept-style trucks that normally debut at the yearly Easter Jeep Safari at Moab. This year, there are...
Historic Orange Crate 1932 Ford Sedan For Sale on RacingJunk
One of the coolest race/show cars of the early 1960s was the “Orange Crate” 1932 Ford sedan, built by a couple of talented guys up in Oregon. Starting life as a race car and then morphing...
Freightliner Unveils Revolution Innovation Truck at Mid-America Truck Show – Cool or Ugly?
The Mid America Truck Show is like SEMA for the trucking industry. It is a massive show where all the companies that makes trucks, engines, components, and accessories for working trucks congregate....
Swap Meet Gallery: The 2012 Traders Village Houston Auto Swap Meet
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While the internet has become the largest venue for selling cars, parts, and virtually all other kinds of automotive related stuff, the good old swap meet lives...
Watch Freiburger and Finnegan’s Nomadic Ranchero Adventure Around the Western United States
Remember the one about the two guys who left for Alaska and ended up at the Grand Canyon by way of Utah and Colorado? Those two guys were David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan of Hot Rod Magazine and...
Insane Wheelstand Sequence Re-Run: A ’32 Chevy Sedan On the Bumper!
(Editor’s Note: This wheelstand sequence ran back in 2010 and for kicks, we dug it out of the archive) – This ain’t no freaking street rod! This killer action sequence was captured...
Mopars at the Strip Now Open to All Muscle Cars Regardless of Brand – Event Coming in April
Mopars at the Strip has long been known as one of the coolest major Mopar shows in the country. It will now be known as one of the coolest muscle car shows in the country as they organizers have...
Drag Gallery: Test and Tune Action Photos From Houston Motorsports Park
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – As Spring has sprung all over the country (aside from some sections of Arizona apparently) race tracks and facilities are throwing their doors open to hot rodders...
Driveway Tech: We Install Air Intake Upgrades on Two Trucks For Performance and Economy Gains – Part 1
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Lots of BangShifters own late model trucks. They daily drive them, tow with them, haul the family around in them, and maybe even beat on them a little from time to...
Watch The Most Insane Head On Wreckage Video You Will See This Week!
Of all the nutty and shocking Russian dash cam wreck videos we have posted over the years here on BangShift, nothing tops this one. So much happens at once, the scene actually looks like something...
