VOTE FOR BANGSHIFTER ROCKY PHILLIPS AND HIS HOME BUILT TWIN ENGINE DRAGSTER HERE!
BangShift member Rocky Phillips goes by the screen name Toymaker and for good reason. The dude scratch built a twin engine slingshot dragster called, “The Evil Twin” in his home shop....
WANT TO KNOW WHAT SAFETY EQUIPMENT YOU’LL NEED TO GO LAND SPEED RACING IN YOUR CAR? CLICK HERE!
Due to a ton of requests and excitement over the opening of the Ohio Mile, the ECTA has published a rough guideline that can be used by potential racers to review what safety requirements are...
DRAG RACING INNOVATOR JIM LYTLE PASSES – INCREDIBLE ALLISON POWERED CREATIONS WILL LIVE FOREVER IN DRAG RACING LORE
Jim Lytle, the creative genius behind the wild “Big Al” Allison powered 1934 Ford and the man who introduced drag racing to the one piece fiberglass body has died. Lytle passed in Hawaii,...
WE WON! THANK YOU BANGSHIFTERS – WE WON FACEBOOK PAGE OF THE YEAR!
Holy cow, we won! Thanks to your help and support, BangShift was the first ever winner of the CompetitonPlus Dot Com award for Facebook Page of the Year. We don’t know what the actual numbers...
VIDEO: (NOT AN) ICE ROAD TRUCKER
You thought today was Friday when it fact it is “wacky mishap day”! Didn’t get the memo? Neither did we, but the weirdo news keeps flowing into the BS news bunker today! A 35-year...
FUNNY NEWS: CAR REPORTED STOLEN IN AUSTRALIA ACTUALLY ROLLED AWAY AND PARKED ITSELF IN A GARAGE
Police in Adelaide, Australia responded to a call of a suspected burglary and instead discovered a car that was reported stolen from a market two weeks ago. In one of the most epic, “that...
WHERE ARE THEY NOW VIDEO: FORMER PRO MOD CHAMPION MITCH STOTT IS BUILDING RC PLANE LANDING GEAR?
door slammer in the five second zone. He turned the trick back in 2003 at Darlington Dragway. He was a big force in the Pro Mod ranks through the 1990s and early into the 2000s. Then, like lots of...
BS TECH: PRO TUNING SECRETS PART 1 – FINDING POWER RIGHT IN YOUR DISTRIBUTOR
Those Bangshifters who are old enough to have owned muscle cars when they were new, or nearly new, remember taking their rides to a performance oriented dealership to get a super tune that was good...
WEIRD WRECK VIDEO: A HONDA MOUNTS A CADDY INSIDE A PARKING GARAGE!
You’ve got to feel bad to the owner of the Caddy that was totaled in this strange Massachusetts crash. It was reported the woman drove her 2011 STS to the office, parked in a garage she never...
BANGSHIFT QUESTION OF THE DAY: WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT YOU’VE EVER DONE TO AN ENGINE?
After seeing the photo of that nuked Hemi, it naturally made us think of crap that we have blown up or been directly involved with the destruction of. Back in college when running the VW road racing...
COOL VIDEO: ACTION FROM THE GOODGUYS DEL MAR AUTOCROSS AND CHAD GETTING ATTACKED WITH PIE!
So there I was, digging on this really neat video featuring action from the Goodguys Del Mar autocross and BAM! Right there at the end Chad gets attacked with pie. Is there anything better in the...
SAD NEWS: PONTIAC-OAKLAND CLUB INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT DAVID BENNETT PASSES
Sad news from the world of Pontiacs today as POCI President David Bennett passed away unexpectedly after taking a fall last week. Bennett has been the president of the organization since 2008 and had...
BANGSHIFT EXCLUSIVE: INAUGURAL LINGENFELTER PERFORMANCE NATIONALS TO HAPPEN AT NORWALK IN SEPT 2012!
Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, one of the most fabled and respected high performance car builders in the nation has announced that they will host the Lingenfelter Performance Nationals on...
CHEVY CALLING ALL 8,000 VOLTS BACK TO DEALERS FOR STEEL PLATE INSTALL TO PROTECT BATTERIES
GM has announced that they will have all 8,000 Chevy Volts currently on the road return to dealerships for the installation of a steel plate that will help to prevent a fire like that which occurred...
